Water may be key to understanding sweetness

A cranberry, honey or a candy bar - which tastes the sweetest? These foods contain sugars…

New breast cancer therapeutic target

Research has shown for the first time that a tiny piece of RNA deregulates energy metabolism,…

Feeding plants to this algae could fuel your car

The research shows that a freshwater production strain of microalgae, Auxenochlorella protothecoides, is capable of directly…

Faulty science and ethics cited in DNA analyzes of Atacama mummy

Researchers call into question the ethics and skeletal and genomic analysis surrounding research into the much…

Molecular culprits of protein aggregation in ALS and FTLD

The mutated and aggregated protein FUS is implicated in two neurodegenerative diseases: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)…

Biological signalling processes in intelligent materials

Researchers are developing innovative biohybrid systems with information processing functionality.

Dementia could be detected via routinely collected data

A new machine-learning model that scans routinely collected NHS data has shown promising signs of being…

Allergies: Mugwort pollen as main source of airborne endotoxins

Different airborne substances can cause respiratory problems for asthma sufferers. These include bacteria and their components,…

Planck: Final data from the mission lends support to the standard cosmological model

With its increased reliability and its data on the polarization of relic radiation, the Planck mission…

Lateral gene transfer enables chemical protection of beetles against antagonistic fungi

Researchers have discovered that bacteria associated to Lagria villosa beetles can produce an antifungal substance very…