An interaction between two proteins points to a molecular basis for memory. But how do memories last when the molecules that ...

A promising path to fighting COVID and other coronaviruses may have been based on a serious mistake. Scientists had zeroed in ...

Understanding where and in what quantities essential elements for life have existed on Earth's surface helps explain the ...

The COVID pandemic illustrated how urgently we need antiviral medications capable of treating coronavirus infections. To aid ...

Here we use cryogenic electron microscopy to determine the structure of TbAQP2 from Trypanosoma brucei, bound to either the substrate glycerol or to the sleeping sickness drugs, pentamidine or ...

How do we determine how healthy our food is? We know now that our nutrition shouldn't just be measured in calories, or even ...

This is an important study that combines replications of findings and novel detailed MRI investigations to assess the impact of environmental enrichment and maternal behavior on mice brain structure ...

An experimental rationalization of the structure type encountered in DNA and RNA by systematically investigating the chemical and physical properties of alternative nucleic acids has identified ...

As time goes by, our bodies change, you know, even the brain. A major change is how brain structure seems to shrink with age. Studies show that this happens at both large and small levels inside. You ...

Crystalline silica is well-known to induce oxidative stress as a consequence of both surface-derived generation of free radicals and intracellular production of reactive oxygen species upon ...