Researchers CSIC and University of the Basque Country have discovered a novel mechanism of communication between the proteins that cause ‘ cell suicide ‘or apoptosis: Protein BAX and DRP -1 and lipid cardiolipin acting together to produce a large hole in the outer membrane of mitochondria is lethal for the cell. The key new study [...]
Scientists at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (IPC PAS for its acronym in English ) are working on electrodes having surfaces coated with layers of carbon nanoparticles and enzymes. These electrodes can be used to produce modern sensors and energy sources, including some as futuristic as biological fuel [...]
The greatest risk of rejection of a transplanted organ typically occurs during the first twenty-four hours and the first month and a half since the intervention occurred. The existing signs are indirect and the same date, the only way that doctors had to determine unequivocally rejected consisted of biopsy, a technique annoying and carries certain [...]
Scientists at the University of Nottingham have made a discovery that could have important implications for harnessing the potential of a single molecule at the nanoscale. In an article published in the journal Nature Communications, a team of physicists and chemists have demonstrated for the first time how an irregular-shaped molecule is absorbed on a [...]
The FDA maintains doubts about the safety of using the transgenic salmon as food for humans and the approval of AquAdvantage Salmon (AAS) developed by Aqua Bounty Technologies Inc. will have to wait for it to resolve some of the issues have not yet been clarified with the data presented by the company. Apparently there [...]
The disease dense deposit (DDD ) is a rare disease that mainly affects children between 5 and 15 years. Patients who suffer progressively lose the filtering capacity of the kidneys to eventually need dialysis treatment or transplantation kidney, temporary solution to reproduce the disease quickly in the new transplanted organ. Now, scientists from the ( [...]
