Mini-protein rapid design method opens way to create a new class of drugs

A high-speed method has been developed to generate many different, small, stable proteins from scratch, custom-designed…

Beer can lift your spirits due to malted barley ingredient

Visitors to the Oktoberfest have always known it and now it has been scientifically -- beer…

Haplobank: A biobank of reversible mutant embryonic stem cells

Scientist have developed a biobank of revertible, mutant embryonic stem cells – called Haplobank - which…

Minimally invasive valve replacements hold up well after five years, study shows

A minimally invasive procedure used to replace heart valves without open heart surgery appears to provide…

Battling belly fat: Specialized immune cells impair metabolism in aging

Researchers have described how nervous systems and immune systems talk to each other to control metabolism…

Melanoma cells rewire to resist drug treatment

Scientists reveals why relapses after treatment for metastatic melanoma occur. While combination therapies block off the…

High rate of prescriptions for new cholesterol medications never filled

In the first year of availability of the cholesterol lowering medications PCSK9 inhibitors, fewer than 1…

Black holes with ravenous appetites define Type I active galaxies

Type I and Type II active galaxies do not just appear different -- they are, in…

New light shed on how Earth and Mars were created

Analysing a mixture of earth samples and meteorites, scientists have shed new light on the sequence…

The volatile processes that shaped the Earth

Although it is widely understood that Earth was formed gradually, from much smaller bodies, many of…