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2022.10.03
Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are protein cofactors that are essential for life. They are thought to have formed spontaneously before the emergence of life in...
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2022.11.30
Calmodulin is a protein found in all living organisms, or at least those whose cells have a nucleus. "Calmodulin" literally means "calcium-modulated protein...
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2023.01.31
On June 28, 1871, Louis Pasteur filed an invention patent for a beer production process. He had observed that fermentation was caused by microorganisms, and...
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2023.03.06
Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that affects several mammal species including humans. Leishmania, the parasites responsible, have a life cycle that...
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2022.12.12
When it comes to emerging infectious diseases, it is crucial for us to be able to sound the alert and prepare so that we can implement effective measures to...
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2023.04.03
We always marvel as we watch them grow, discover the world day by day and try to understand it. But how much do we know – or think we know – about what...
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2023.07.26
Natural killer (NK) cells are white blood cells that are capable of detecting and destroying tumor cells or cells infected with viruses. Their importance in...
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2022.03.22
Water is a fundamental resource supporting life and a core component of public health surveillance. Several "aquatic" diseases affect populations in which...
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2022.02.01
Since the start of the pandemic, the ability to study the biology of the virus in cells and detect its presence in infected organs or patients has been...
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2022.10.24
State-of-the-art super-resolution microscopes enable us to observe biological structures at resolutions approaching molecular scale. A good example is single...