Extinct camelids reveal insights about North America's ancient savannas

A new study looking at extinct camelids—ancestors of today’s camels and llamas—tells the story of North…

What makes a giant jellyfish's sting deadly

With summer on the way, and some beaches reopening after COVID-19 shutdowns, people will be taking…

COVID-19 antibody tests: How reliable are they?

With stay-at-home orders expiring around the world, many hope that COVID-19 antibody testing will help businesses…

Will lockdown loneliness make us loners?

Over the past few months at least half of the world’s population has been affected by…

Potential high-risk clones identified among S. maltophilia strains in European hospitals

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia are increasingly recognized as significant opportunistic pathogens in healthcare settings worldwide, the global spread…

Team develops online atlas of human immunome for precision medicine

Scientists from the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) have developed an interactive web-based atlas of…

Microplastic background pollution in the Curonian Spit beach

An article written by an international team of scientists was published recently in Marine Pollution Bulletin…

Cellular stress causes cancer cell chemoresistance

There is a broad range of mechanisms associated with chemoresistance, many of which to date are…

Clostridioides difficile captures blood cell cofactor to build defensive shield

In a cruel twist, the bacterium Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) makes us bleed and then uses…

Simulations on biologically relevant time scales achieved

Molecular dynamics simulations (MD) have become a ubiquitous tool in modern life sciences. In these simulations,…