Researchers develop a new predictive model for designing 2D perovskites

Two-dimensional (2D) perovskites are increasingly recognized as promising candidate materials for the next generation of ...

Lipids and DNA nanostructures independently control artificial cell mechanics

What if the mechanical properties of a cell could be programmed like the components of a machine? Researchers at the ...

Dementia-causing substance turns into a therapeutic 'switch' with new Alzheimer's drug strategy

A substance that worsens dementia has become a "switch" that initiates treatment. KAIST researchers have developed a new ...

Cancer also knows how to wait: Study uncovers the hidden step between mutation and tumor biomass appearance

The development of cancer is not a process triggered immediately by the emergence of an oncogenic mutation. There is growing ...

This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It’s Manmade.

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

X-ray snapshots reveal how viral shells change shape as they dry out

When viruses travel through the air in tiny droplets, they can quickly start to dry out. Yet many viruses remain infectious ...
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Mechanisms of abiotic stress responses and tolerance in plants: physiological, biochemical and molecular interventions

Molecular dissection of apomixis – an asexual reproductive mode – is anticipated to solve the enigma of loss of meiotic sex, and to help fixing elite agronomic traits. The Brassicaceae genus Boechera ...