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The research labs of the associate professor Dr. Thomas Becker and Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Pfanner from the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Freiburg discovered a function of the metabolite channel of the mitochondrial outer membrane in protein transport.

Butterfly syndrome is a rare inherited condition that causes the skin to become very fragile, and blister following minor friction. New data points to the major driver of fibrosis in these patients, giving therapeutic research new direction.

Bariatric surgery alters patterns of digestion and absorption lower in the gut triggering production of higher levels of gut hormones, altering the way the gut senses food and nutrients.

During a study spanning nearly a decade, researchers have linked the protein clusterin - for the first time - to many different facets of cardiometabolic syndrome risk through its actions in the liver.

Researchers are aiming to understand how immunodeficiency viruses are transmitted within and between species to reveal potential novel therapeutic avenues.

A new study has reported that women’s brains appear to be about three years younger than men’s of the same chronological age, metabolically speaking. The findings could be one clue to why women tend to stay mentally sharp longer than men.

Researchers have found that rhomboid enzymes, which are special proteins that cut other proteins, are able to break the “cellular speed limit” as they move through the cell membrane.

The impressively high conversion rates of natural enzymes partly result from increasing the catalytic activity of a selected few amino acid side chains through precise positioning within the protein binding cavity. Scientists have now demonstrated that such fine-tuning is also possible for "designer" enzymes with unnatural catalytic amino acids.

Scientists have simulated meteorite impacts in the lab and followed the resulting structural changes in two feldspar minerals with X-rays as they happened.

In an exhaustive search of microbes from more than 1,400 insects, scientists found that insect-borne microbes often outperformed soil bacteria in stopping some of the most common and dangerous antibiotic-resistant pathogens.