UChicago scientists are making major progress on a technology designed to give nuanced “feeling” to prosthetic hands, by ...

C-terminal amidation is a PTM that involves the addition of an amid group to the C-terminus of a peptide or protein. Currently there is no direct evidence to suggest that C-terminal amidation of ...

If the scientists could very precisely measure the proportions of lutetium and halfnium in moon rocks compared to other ...

Research conducted by an international team and led by biologists at the University of Kentucky has found that the ability to ...

University of Illinois Chicago scientists have redesigned a treatment for the most common pediatric leukemia to eliminate its ...

UIC researchers have redesigned asparaginase, a key leukemia treatment, to reduce severe side effects like liver damage and ...

Dijkstra (Utrecht University), Pedram Hassanzadeh (University of Chicago), Christian Lessig (European Center for Medium-Range ...

Here, we use a synthetic amphiphile to modulate the membrane mechanical properties of cell-derived vesicles and probe channel activation. Using precise membrane mechanical characterization approaches ...

Researchers from the University of Illinois have identified a key process coordinating liver maturation and polyploidization, ...

It’s well known that consuming sugary drinks increases the risk of diabetes, but the mechanism behind this relationship is unclear. Now, in a paper publishing January 31 in the Cell Press journal Cell ...

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...

A compact method of detecting neutrinos provides new tests of physics theories and could lead to new reactor-monitoring methods.