Researchers at Leipzig University and TU Dresden have succeeded in developing biological switches that can selectively turn ion channels on and off using light pulses. Initial applications show that ...

A new preclinical study from researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, published in Nature ...

Researchers identified a key protein as a potential therapeutic target for stopping the body's immune system from mistakenly attacking itself, offering new hope for treating autoimmune diseases and ...

Farmers around the world rely on nitrogen fertilizers to sustain crop production, but in many alkaline soils a large share of ...

An important study in Nature Microbiology challenges the entrenched assumptionthat synthetic chemicals can be targeted for specific uses and have limited effects beyond those uses. In particular, the ...