The surgery is an open-heart procedure where a surgeon uses part of a blood vessel from somewhere else in your body to ...

The Zika virus builds tiny tunnels, called tunneling nanotubes, to stealthily transport material needed to infect nearby cells, including in placental cells, according to a team of researchers from ...

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The macromolecular organization of photosynthetic complexes within the thylakoids of higher plant chloroplasts has been a topic of significant debate. Using in situ cryo-electron tomography, this ...

Animals, plants and many other living organisms inhale oxygen to "burn" (oxidize) compounds like sugar into CO2 and water—a ...

New active ingredients such as antibodies are usually tested individually in laboratory animals. Researchers have now developed a technology that can be used to test around 25 antibodies ...

Just as cities must carefully manage the flow of cars in and out of downtown, cells regulate the movement of molecules into ...

The protein chains stack on top of one another ... The study, "Charting the envelope of mechanical properties of synthetic silk fibers through predictive modeling of the drawing process," was ...