Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed anti-pneumonia microbots that swim around the lungs, deliver drugs and are used to clear life-threatening bacterial pneumonia infections. In mouse…
Alzheimer’s disease, known as the “eraser in the brain,” is a neurodegenerative disease with an unclear and incurable pathogenesis. The journal Science recently published an investigative report that a 16-year-old…
When the plant immune system detects the invasion of pathogenic bacteria, the plant immune receptor protein becomes active as a “sentry” and mobilizes the body to initiate an immune response.…
About eating meat, there is a saying: four legs are better than two legs, and two legs are better than no legs. Among them, pork, beef and lamb are the…
As the saying goes, “Eat like a king for breakfast, eat like a commoner for lunch, eat like a beggar for dinner.” From this saying we can see the importance…
Sunlight exposure stimulates eating and weight gain in men, but not women, through a hormone secreted by adipose tissue within the skin. The study, published in Nature Metabolism (UK), reveals…
Science and Technology Daily (Reporter Zhao Hanbin) Accidental ingestion of poisonous mushrooms causes death, but at the same time they are also a source of important drugs and functional molecules.…
U.S. researchers have used a new method to get eggs laid by hens to produce antibodies against the stinging protein of the New Coronavirus, PhysicoTribune.com reported on 13 June. The…
Recently, researchers at the University of Cape Town (UCT) used cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) to determine for the first time the full-length structure of human angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), a protein that…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany have combined robotics and biology to equip E. coli with artificial components to build bio-hybrid robots that are expected…