Biochemistry News
May 1, 2025
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May 1, 2025 — A team has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating electricity, using a natural process that pushes electrons into their surroundings instead of breathing on oxygen. The findings could enable new developments in clean energy and ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — It is now possible to obtain three-dimensional, high-resolution images of enzyme activity in tissue samples or whole organs -- thanks to probe molecules that anchor fluorescent dyes within tissue as they are activated by enzymes. The organ being ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) arise in various fields such as shift scheduling, traffic routing, and drug development. However, they are challenging to solve using traditional computers ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — A squishy, layered material that dramatically transforms under pressure could someday help computers store more data with less energy. That's according to a new study that shows a hybrid zinc telluride-based material can undergo surprising ...
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Apr. 28, 2025 — BU researchers develop a brain-inspired algorithm that can help people with hearing loss pick out conversations in noisy, crowded ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers demonstrated extremely strong nonlinear light-matter coupling in a quantum circuit. Stronger coupling enables faster quantum readout and operations, ultimately improving the accuracy of ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — An international team of scientists has moved beyond just 'scratching the surface,' to understand how microplastics move through and impact the ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — With more than 181.5 billion tons of wood produced globally each year, a new method could revolutionize how we build sustainably. By infusing red oak with ferrihydrite using a simple, low-cost ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new catalyst design capable of pushing the projected fuel cell catalyst lifespans to 200,000 hours. The research marks a ...
Apr. 25, 2025 — Historically, small molecule drugs have been precisely designed down to the atomic scale. Considering their relatively large complex structures, nanomedicines have lagged behind. Researchers argue ...
Apr. 25, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new therapy that can be injected intravenously right after a heart attack to promote healing and prevent heart failure. The therapy both prompts the immune system to ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Plant-based seafood alternatives should have similar flavors, textures and nutritional content to the foods they mimic. And recreating the properties of fried calamari rings, which have a neutral ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Using their novel FRESH 3D bioprinting technique, which allows for printing of soft living cells and tissues, a lab has built a tissue model entirely out of ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine, can ...
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Apr. 23, 2025 — Conservators and museum technicians protect precious archaeological metal objects, such as tools and weapons, with clear coatings, leaving preserved and unobstructed views of these detailed ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Genome editing has advanced at a rapid pace with promising results for treating genetic conditions -- but there is always room for improvement. A new paper showcases the power of scalable protein ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — A new tissue expansion method enables scientists to use mass spectrometry imaging to simultaneously detect hundreds of molecules at the single cell level in their native ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Researchers have developed a light-induced DNA detection method that enables rapid, PCR-free genetic analysis. Their technique offers ultra-sensitive mutation detection in just five minutes, reducing ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Researchers explored a colloidal crystal model to produce specific polymorphs, required for use in materials science and ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Asymmetric interactions between molecules may serve as a stabilizing factor for biological systems. A new model reveals this regulatory role of non-reciprocity. The scientists aim to understand the ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is deadly in part because of ...
Apr. 18, 2025 — A team of researchers has developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially engineered structure called a 3D photonic-crystal cavity that could enable transformative advancements in ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — An international team of physicists has made a significant observation of the BKT phase transition in a 2D dipolar gas of ultracold atoms. This groundbreaking work marks a major milestone in ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — A study has found a rare form of one-dimensional quantum magnetism in a metallic compound, offering evidence into a phase space that has remained, until now, largely theoretical. The study comes at a ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — A team of researchers has identified a promising new approach that may one day help to restore vision in people affected by macular degeneration and other retinal ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — A recently created RoboBee is now outfitted with its most reliable landing gear to date, inspired by one of nature's most graceful landers: the crane fly. The team has given their flying robot a ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — There's a sensation that you experience -- near a plane taking off or a speaker bank at a concert -- from a sound so total that you feel it in your very being. When this happens, not only do ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — A bioreactor that mimics a circulatory system can deliver nutrients and oxygen to artificial tissue, enabling the production of over 10 grams of chicken muscle for cultured meat ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — Imagine tiny building toy pieces that automatically snap together to form a strong, flat sheet. Then, scientists add special chemical 'hooks' to these sheets to attach glowing molecules ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — Researchers have developed a machine learning workflow to optimize the output force of photo-actuated organic crystals. Using LASSO regression to identify key molecular substructures and Bayesian ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated a way to use corn protein to improve the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries, a finding that holds promise for expanding the use of the high-energy, lighter-weight ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — Identifying a key protein's role could improve the common mental health medications and point to new treatments for inflammation-related diseases, a medicinal chemist ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — Neural networks are one typical structure on which artificial intelligence can be based. The term neural describes their learning ability, which to some extent mimics the functioning of neurons in ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- Some Protective Resin Coatings May Damage Metal Artifacts
- Scientists Have Found a Way to 'tattoo' Tardigrades
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Researchers Use Machine Learning to Engineer 'bespoke Enzymes' For Gene Editing
- New Technique Expands Tissues So Hundreds of Biomolecules Can Be Seen Inside Cells
- Shining a Light on DNA: A Rapid, Ultra-Sensitive, PCR-Free Detection Method
- A Colloidal Crystal Model for Controlled Polymorph Selection
- Activity Stabilizes Mixtures
Monday, April 21, 2025
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Thursday, April 17, 2025
- Unlocking the Secrets of Superfluid: Scientists Unveil How Dipolar Interactions Shape Two-Dimensional Superfluid Behavior
- Researchers Demonstrate New Class of Quantum Materials That Are Both Metallic and One-Dimensional
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
- Golden Eyes: How Gold Nanoparticles May One Day Help to Restore People's Vision
- RoboBee Comes in for a Landing
- Uncovering the Relationship Between Life and Sound
- Bite-Sized Chunks of Chicken With the Texture of Whole Meat Can Be Grown in the Lab
- Scientists Create a 'brilliantly Luminous' Nanoscale Chemical Tool
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Machine Learning Unlocks Superior Performance in Light-Driven Organic Crystals
- Corn Leads to Improved Performance in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
Monday, April 14, 2025
- Researchers May Have Solved Decades-Old Mystery Behind Benzodiazepine Side Effects
- Photonic Computing Needs More Nonlinearity: Acoustics Can Help
- New Tool for Cutting DNA: Promising Prospects for Biotechnology
Friday, April 11, 2025
- Scientists Observe Exotic Quantum Phase Once Thought Impossible
- Engineered Bacteria Emit Signals That Can Be Spotted from a Distance
Thursday, April 10, 2025
- Research Team Improves Method for Producing Designer Proteins
- Key Brain Networks Behind Post-Stroke Urinary Incontinence Identified
- Impact of Processing on Biochemical Composition of Plant-Based Products Revealed
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- A New Smartphone-Sized Device Can Test for Tuberculosis: Here's Why That Matters for Children
- Decarbonization Improves Energy Security for Most Countries
- Finding Cancer's 'fingerprints'
- Starch-Based Microplastics Could Cause Health Risks in Mice
- A Step Toward Cleaner Iron Extraction Using Electricity
- Engineers Bring Sign Language to 'life' Using AI to Translate in Real-Time
- Engineering Smart Delivery for Gene Editors
- 'Forever Chemicals' Are Everywhere: Most of Their Health Effects Are Unknown
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Nasal Spray H5N1 Avian Influenza Vaccine Developed
- Researchers Watch a Single Catalytic Grain Do Work in Real Time
Monday, April 7, 2025
- Termite Stowaways: Study Reveals Boats as Perfect Vessels for Global Termite Spread
- Researchers Discover Why Plastic Sheds Dangerous Fragments
- Chatbot Opens Computational Chemistry to Nonexperts
Friday, April 4, 2025
- Researchers Improve Chemical Reaction That Underpins Products from Foods to Fuels
- Hot Schrödinger Cat States Created
- Novel Genomic Screening Tool Enables Precision Reverse-Engineering of Genetic Programming in Cells
- How Can Science Benefit from AI? Risks?
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- 3-D Printed Skin to Replace Animal Testing
- Nurture More Important Than Nature for Robotic Hand
- Revealing Capillaries and Cells in Living Organs With Ultrasound
- Carbon Capture Could Become Practical With Scalable, Affordable Materials
- Solar Cells Made of Moon Dust Could Power Future Space Exploration
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Researchers Use 'smart' Bomb Therapy to Destroy Breast Cancer
- Researchers Explore Using Soil for Heat Storage
- Electrochemical Process Separates Valuable Industrial Chemicals from Animal Waste
- Scientists Merge Two 'impossible' Materials Into New Artificial Structure
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
- Enhancing Light Control With Complex Frequency Excitations
- Diagnosing a Dud May Lead to a Better Battery
- We Know Nanoplastics Are a Threat -- This New Tool Can Help Us Figure out Just How Bad They Are
Monday, March 31, 2025
- Scientists Pioneer Method to Tackle 'forever Chemicals'
- Chance Discovery Improves Stability of Bioelectronic Material Used in Medical Implants, Computing and Biosensors
Friday, March 28, 2025
- Physicists Use Quantum Entanglement to Crack Mystery of Strange Metals
- Artificial Neurons Organize Themselves
- New Approach Makes One Type of Clean Fuel Production 66% More Efficient
Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Breakthrough Copper Alloy Achieves Unprecedented High-Temperature Performance
- Physicists Discover a Copper-Free High-Temperature Superconducting Oxide
- Microbial Cell Factories for Sustainable Chemical Production
- A Lighter, Smarter Magnetoreceptive Electronic Skin
- Terahertz Imaging: Breakthrough in Non-Invasive Cochlear Visualization
- Feeling the Future: New Wearable Tech Simulates Realistic Touch
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Cleaning Microplastics
- Making Sturdy, Semi-Transparent Wood With Cheap, Natural Materials
- Cleverly Designed Carbon Nanohoop Enables Controlled Release of Iron
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Engineering Antibodies With a Novel Fusion Protein
- Eco-Friendly, Nylon-Like Plastic Using Microorganisms
- New Type of Quantum Computer Studies the Dance of Elementary Particles
- Using Cover Plants to Remove Pollutants from Arable Soil
- The Evolution of Low-Temperature Adapted Enzymes
- Listen to Quantum Atoms Talk Together Thanks to Acoustics
- Making Foie Gras Without Force-Feeding
- VR Crime Scene Tech
Monday, March 24, 2025
- 3D Nanotech Blankets Offer New Path to Clean Drinking Water
- Engineers Develop a Better Way to Deliver Long-Lasting Drugs
- Scientists Engineer Starfish Cells to Shape-Shift in Response to Light
Friday, March 21, 2025
- Groundbreaking Light-Driven Method to Create Key Drug Compounds
- New Machine Learning Framework Enhances Precision and Efficiency in Metal 3D Printing, Advancing Sustainable Manufacturing
- Researchers Create Eco-Friendly Detergent from Wood Fiber and Corn Protein
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Green Recipe: Engineered Yeast Boosts D-Lactic Acid Production
- New CRISPR Tool Enables More Seamless Gene Editing -- And Improved Disease Modeling
- Producing Nuclear Fusion Fuel Is Banned in the US for Being Too Toxic, but These Researchers Found an Alternative
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- Shaping the Future of Diabetes Treatment With 3D Bioprinting Technology
- Plant Patch Can Detect Stress Signals in Real Time
- New Material for Efficient Separation of Deuterium at Elevated Temperatures
- EPA Regulations Cut Power Sector Emissions but Miss Opportunities for Deeper Reductions
- Squirrel-Inspired Leaping Robot Can Stick a Landing on a Branch
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- 'Democratizing Chemical analysis':Chemists Use Machine Learning and Robotics to Identify Chemical Compositions from Images
- Web Search Formulas Offer a First Step for Protecting Critical Infrastructure
- Lords of the Molecular Rings: An Innovative Shortcut to High-Performance Organic Materials
- To Overcome Antibiotic Resistance, New Research Says to Let It Flow
- Reusing Old Oil and Gas Wells May Offer Green Energy Storage Solution
- Revolutionary Blueprint to Fuse Wireless Technologies and AI
- Eco-Friendly Method to Efficiently Convert Methane to Ethanol