Breaking Bad: IgG4 In Autoimmunity
The human immune system is a complex network of cells and soluble factors that can cleverly adapt to combat infection. For example, B cells rearrange…
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Recent Study Shows That Bacteria And Fungi In The Gut Of Babies Are Linked To Future Asthma Risk
What causes asthma? At a time when global rates of asthma have reached alarming rates, this important question remains unanswered. This debilitating disease affects approximately…
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On/Off Switching During The Synthesis Of Complex Sugars
Glycosylation is the ubiquitous, highly-regulated process by which carbohydrate is added to proteins and lipids to form glycoconjugates (glycans). These carbohydrate portions of glycans can…
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Environmental Remediation And Energy Reclamation From Natural Water Matrices And Wastewater By Solar Photocatalytic Technology
Both water and energy are key sustainability issues that need to be addressed. To this end, photocatalysis is advantageous not only for expediting environmental remediation…
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Vesta’s Crust And The Tale Of The Birth Of The Solar System
Investigating the birth of the Solar System is a bit like investigating the crime scene of a “cold case,” where the passage of time, here…
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Measuring Long-Term Climate Change In North America During The Common Era
Recent floods and droughts have resulted in billions of dollars of damages and loss of life. The occurrence of these extreme weather events has varied…
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Multi-System Morbid Disease Associated With Mutations Ostensibly Affecting Non-Protein Synthesis Activities Of A tRNA Synthetase
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) are a family of ancient enzymes. Their primary function is to build proteins by loading up the proper amino acids to charging…
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Crafting Robust And Bifunctional Electrocatalysts For Electrochemical Water Splitting
Electrochemical water-splitting into hydrogen and oxygen is widely recognized as a green and effective approach to transform and store renewable energy. As such, it has…
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Within-host Competition Slows Evolution Of Drug Resistance In Malaria
Most cases of malaria can be cured with a simple course of antimalarial drugs, but many of these drugs have lost their effectiveness because the…
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Overweight: Growing Influence Of Genes With Aging
Researchers have shown that the influence of genes changes during the first years of life. In childhood, there are other factors in particular that affect…
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Some Animals Can Cope With Noise, While Others Cannot
Human-generated, or anthropogenic, noise has gained a lot of research attention lately. It tracks human expansion and spreads throughout both terrestrial and aquatic habitats, leaving…
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