Human microbiota, blood group antigens, and disease, a look at the ways that microbiota interact with the human body.
MicroRNAs and RNA Editing: Roles in Cancer Initiation and Progression
A study on the mechanisms and effects of RNA and microRNA editing on the initiation and progression of cancer.
Tackling Diabetes: Toward Bifunctional Glucose and Dopamine Sensors with Plasma
A plasma-treated polyethylene is used as as an affordable and easy mediator to produce enzymatic glucose sensors that could be used for diabetic patients.
Structural Insights of Glycogen Metabolism in Exercise and Health
An integrative approach of modeling and hydrogen-deuterium exchange helps to describe the enzyme that regulates glycogen levels in muscles and liver.
Noncoding RNAs in Alzheimer’s Disease
New directions in which ncRNAs can be exploited in Alzheimer’s disease prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy are discussed.
Antibacterial Black Phosphorus Film for Infection Prevention
Researchers produce an antibacterial film for long-term disinfection and infection prevention using black phosphorous nanosheets (BPS) as photosensitizers for singlet oxygen production.
Tools for Protein Science Special Issue
Protein Science has published a Special Issue on Tools for Protein Science edited by Brian Matthews from the University of Oregon. Data analysis in life and physical sciences has come a long way since the development of high-power, high-speed computers, and computer...
Antioxidants: Wonder Drugs or Quackery?
What is really an antioxidant?
Food and Lifestyle Behavior – Do We See an Impact of Epigenetic Burden of Chronic Disease?
Increasing consumption of western and low fiber diets, smoking or just exposure to tobacco smoke, harmful use of alcohol, physical inactivity, and environmental pollutants may have programed the human epigenome for higher NCCDs risk.
CD4 T-Cell Immunophenotyping for HIV/AIDS Research
For nearly 35 years, CD4 T-cells and their immunephenotyping and enumeration were the focal points of HIV/AIDS research.