Why Humans are the only Primate Species with more Voice Control A crying baby, a screaming adult, a teenager whose voice cracks — people could have sounded this shrill all the time, a new study suggests,…
Gecko Feet have an Ultra-Thin Layer of Lipids on them that Helps Keep Them Sticky Geckos are renowned for possessing sticky feet that make it easy for them to climb vertical surfaces. The millions of microscopic, hair-like structures on their…
Linking Additional Molecules to DNA Sequences with Desired Functions: A Simple and Affordable Method The creation of novel medication classes based on DNA and RNA is progressing quickly. The COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are just one of many DNA/RNA-based medicines…
Alzheimer’s Disease Can Be Diagnosed Earlier Thanks to a Peptide “Fingerprint” When proteins or peptides fold incorrectly (misfold), their spatial structure is altered, leading to neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. This is the outcome of…
SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Capture and Deactivation Medical Face Mask Membrane Dibakar Bhattacharyya, Ph.D., and Rollie Mills, a Ph.D. student in his lab at the University of Kentucky, have assembled a team of scientists to create…
World Wine Drinkers, Rejoice! New Research Uncovers Solution to Billion-Dollar Issue GTDs, also known as grapevine trunk diseases, are the misery of vineyard owners everywhere, causing more than $1.5 billion in annual economic losses as of…
New Marine Heatwave Global Predictions Predict Ecological and Economic Effects Marine heatwaves sudden, noticeable spikes in ocean temperature that can have a significant impact on ocean ecosystems can now be projected globally with up to…
Researchers Discover the Mechanism behind the Development of Fruit and Seed in Flowering Plants The world’s growers have a harder time producing food as a result of rising global temperatures and declining pollinator populations. This question is addressed in…
Research on Bacteria: Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Storage via an Electron Highway A team of microbiologists from Goethe University Frankfurt, lead by Professor Volker Müller, identified the uncommon enzyme hydrogen-dependent CO2 reductase HDCR in a bacteria that…
Studies Connect COVID-19 to the Sale of Wildlife at Chinese Markets and Find that Alternative Scenarios are Highly Improbable The COVID-19 epidemic, which has claimed 6.4 million lives since it started almost three years ago, was most likely caused by live animals sold at…
Researchers Create a Greener, More Effective Process for Making Next-Generation Antibiotics A technique for modifying one class of antibiotics has been devised by an international team of researchers using microscopic organisms that naturally manufacture these chemicals.…
The Targeted Transport of Molecules into Living Mammalian Cells Using a New Peptide System The University of Bayreuth and the University of Bristol have created a novel peptide that is ideally suited for the targeted delivery of compounds, such…