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A luminescence reaction modeled on fireflies can detect contamination with organophosphates with high sensitivity, ease and low cost.

Researchers revealed new details about a key enzyme that makes DNA sequencing possible.

Briefly blocking a key molecule when administering the only approved vaccine for tuberculosis vastly improves long-term protection against the devastating disease in mice, researchers report.

Researchers are planning to create induced pluripotent stem cells from northern white rhino skin cells in order to produce egg cells, and the latest studies on rhino stem cells are shedding new light on pluripotency.

For some years, scientists had observed methane production in plants and fungi, without knowing why or how. Now, researchers have shed light on the underlying mechanism, and their findings suggest that all organisms release methane.

For the first time, researchers have been able to directly link a stress factor in the brain to the cell's recycling system and obesity. This could enable a completely new approach to treat stress-induced metabolic diseases.

Research has shown that in the fruit fly Drosophila when a wound heals, the process of autophagy is initiated and regulated by the protein complex TORC1.

The brain continually learns and adapts throughout our lives, and even the neurons supporting learned behaviours, such as the daily walk to work, are constantly changing. A new study, published in the journal PNAS, proposes how the brain stays stable despite changes in the neural code.

What is the significance of the sclera (the whites) of our eyes? This is a question in which researchers have been interested in for some time now. Recently a research team succeeded in deciphering the mystery: the white of the eye contributes decisively to the visibility of directions of gaze through its basic colour properties.

Research has discovered that an inorganic polyphosphate released by astrocytes in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) contributes to the motor neuron death that is the signature of these diseases.