Tag: Proteins
3 medical innovations fueled by COVID-19 that will outlast the pandemic
Deborah Fuller, University of Washington; Albert H. Titus, University at Buffalo, and Nevan Krogan, University of California, San Francisco
Diabetics break bones easily – new research is figuring out why...
Lamya Karim, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
A person with Type 2 diabetes is three times more likely to break a bone than a nondiabetic. Since...
Curious Kids: Why does pizza taste so good?
Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Spider glue’s sticky secret revealed by new genetic research
Sarah Stellwagen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
What do all of the over 45,000 described spider species on Earth have in common? Each makes at...
Discovery of a surprise multitasking gene helps explain how new functions...
Katherine L. Petrie, University of California San Diego and Justin Meyer, University of California San Diego
Evolutionary biologists like us try to figure out how...
How robot math and smartphones led researchers to a drug discovery...
Ian Haydon, University of Washington
Robotic movement can be awkward.
For us humans, a healthy brain handles all the minute details of bodily motion without demanding...
Chilled proteins and 3-D images: The cryo-electron microscopy technology that just...
Melanie Ohi, University of Michigan and Michael Cianfrocco, University of Michigan
Many people will never have heard of cryo-electron microscopy before the announcement that Jacques...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
