13-07-11 Chemists from North Carolina State University have performed a DNA-based logic-gate operation within a human cell. The research may pave the way to more complicated computations in live cells, as well as new methods of disease detection and treatmen...

13-06-28 Reporting this month in Molecular Microbiology, Peter Chien and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst describe using a combination of biochemistry and mass spectrometry（质谱分析法） to trap scores of new candidate substrates of the...

13-05-28 Adventitious changes in cellular DNA can endanger the whole organism, as they may lead to life-threatening illnesses like cancer. Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich now report how byproducts of respiration（呼吸） cause m...

13-05-08 Enzymes could break down cell walls faster -- leading to less expensive biofuels for transportation -- if two enzyme systems are brought together in an industrial setting, new research by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory...

13-04-25 Scientists in Mainz and Aachen have discovered a new mechanism that controls egg cell fertility and that might have future therapeutic potential. It was revealed by Professor Dr. Walter Stcker of the Institute of Zoology at Johannes Gutenberg Univer...

13-04-22 Ludwig researchers Arshad Desai and Christopher Campbell, a post-doctoral fellow in his laboratory, were conducting an experiment to parse（解析） the molecular details of cell division about three years ago, when they engineered a mutant yeast cell...

13-01-28 The sun's energy is virtually limitless, but harnessing its electricity with today's single-crystal silicon solar cells is extremely expensive -- 10 times pricier than coal, according to some estimates. Organic solar cells -- polymer solar cells tha...

12-12-30 Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have figured out intimate details of how the hepatitis C virus（丙型肝炎病毒） takes over an invaded cell, a breakthrough that could point to way for new treatments for the virus. Hep C hi...

12-12-24 Galactan（半乳糖体） is a polymer of galactose（半乳糖） , a six-carbon sugar that can be readily fermented by yeast into ethanol（乙醇） and is a target of interest for researchers in advanced biofuels produced from cellulosic biomass. Now an inter...

12-12-18 Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center have discovered a new form of cell division in human cells. They believe it serves as a natural back-up mechanism during faulty cell division, preventing some cells from going down a p...