T cell receptor (TCR) binding to peptides presented by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules is a key step in T cell activation, and forms the basis of adaptive immunity. Predicting this…
How has offspring dependence on parents evolved over the course of evolution? Researchers at the University of Bayreuth, in collaboration with Kyoto University, Japan, have investigated one possible…
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest challenges facing modern medicine. A new class of programmable antibiotics known as asobiotics can be used to treat bacterial infections when classical…
Farmers and foresters manage around 80% of Germany’s land area. They are therefore key agents of change in protecting biodiversity—and are often accused of not doing enough to protect it.
by Dan Denis, Zhiyi Chen, Manroop Kaur, Benjamin Clayden, Thomas Schreiner, Scott A. Cairney
How does the brain select which experiences to consolidate into long-term memory? Numerous…
by Qichen Duan, Sumie Okuwa, Rachel Estrella, Chun Yeung, Yu-Chieh David Chen, Laura Quintana Rio, Chengcheng Du, Khanh M. Vien, Pelin Cayirlioglu Volkan
Over the past decades, many molecular…
by Lucas S. Hollstein, Kerstin Schmitt, Lucas Well, André Fleißner, Oliver Valerius, Stefanie Pöggeler
Hyphal fusion and sexual development in filamentous fungi rely on coordinated signaling of…
A protein that sticks cells and tissues together has been found to have a surprising second job: helping cells that are packed into a continuous sealed layer, also known as epithelial cells, engulf…
Acting as armor, a scaffold and a communication platform in one, our cells’ plasma membrane lies at the heart of many crucial cellular processes. Traditionally, it has been thought to function…
A team of Weill Cornell Medicine investigators has developed a computer model that will help scientists more efficiently develop protein-destroying therapies, a newer type of treatment that is…