. Scientific Frontline: Molecular Biology
Showing posts with label Molecular Biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Molecular Biology. Show all posts
Friday, February 13, 2026

Mosquito taste receptor could lead to new insect repellents

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Finding the right taste to send mosquitoes packing could save hundreds of thousands of lives. Photo Credit:  Егор Камелев Scientific Frontli...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

Skeleton ‘gatekeeper’ lining brain cells could guard against Alzheimer’s

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The Penn State research team used advanced super‑resolution microscopy, a type of imaging technique that can peer into cells at the nanoscal...

Study maps the role of a master regulator in early brain development

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery : The gene HNRNPU functions as a cen...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Established cancer drug reactivates immunotherapy

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Professor Florian Bassermann and his team are researching the role of the ubiquitin system in cancer. Insights from their basic research are...

Shining New Light on How Cytokines Manage Immune Response

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Green fluorescent tags delivered by the new CyCLoPs tool reveal cells that responded to a specific cytokine (IL-17A) in a mouse model. Image...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Scientists rebuild microscopic circadian clock to control genes

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery : Researchers reproduced the simples...
Thursday, February 5, 2026

What Is: mRNA

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The Genetic Messenger Messenger RNA (mRNA) serves as the vital intermediary in the "central dogma" of molecular biology, bridging ...
Friday, January 30, 2026

A broken DNA repair tool accelerates aging

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Fatal error: The failure of the repair enzyme SPRTN in these cultured cells leads to fatal errors in cell division, e.g. by distributing the...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

New Perspectives on How Physical Instabilities Drive Embryonic Development

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Microtubule asters in cytoplasmic extract of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. The spatio-temporal growth of the aster is coordinated ...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Stealth and manipulation: Strategies of bacterial plasmids

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Bacterial plasmid strategies. The survival strategies put forward by the researchers hint at a powerful mechanism which might explain the ke...
Monday, January 26, 2026

A skin biopsy to detect a rare neurodegenerative disease

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3D reconstruction of an ATTR-F64S amyloid fibril extracted from skin tissue of a living patient. Image Credit: © UNIGE Scientific Frontline:...
Friday, January 16, 2026

Scientists develop molecules that may treat Crohn’s disease

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Broad scientists designed molecules (pictured in teal) that can bind CARD9 (white with red and blue), a protein linked to inflammatory bowel...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Breakthrough in RNA Research Could Lead to Treatment for Neuromuscular Disorders

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Danith Ly said this discovery paves the way for developing highly selective, structure-based RNA therapies with fewer side effects and broad...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

“Recipe book” for reprogramming immune cells

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Filipe Pereira, professor of molecular medicine at Lund University Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lund University Scientific Frontline: "At ...

UNC scientists discover how cells respond to common prescription drugs

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Dissociation of G protein from drug-bound GPCR (orange) is captured in accelerated molecular dynamics simulations, starting from the bound (...

Not only toxic but also a nutrient: guanidine as a nitrogen source

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Cyanobacteria convert light energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis and are becoming increasingly important for carbon-neutral bi...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Plastic particles increase inflammation and cross barriers

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Lukas Kenner, visiting professor, Department of Molecular Biology. Photo Credit: Medizinische Universität Wien Scientific Frontline: "A...

One way brain ‘conductors’ find precise connection to target cells

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Visualizations of cells in mouse brains show that under normal conditions (left), the connection between chandelier cells and the axon initi...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Discovery on how aggressive breast cancer controls protein production

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Three of the researchers behind the study, Kanchan Kumari Francesca Aguilo Margalida Esteva, Department of Molecular Biology. Photo Credit: ...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Harnessing evolution: Evolved synthetic disordered proteins could address disease, antibiotic resistance

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Yifan Dai and his team designed a method based on directed evolution to create synthetic intrinsically disordered proteins that can facilita...