Astronomers have made a sweet discovery in their search for life on other planets. A team at University College London has detected a sugar molecule that has long been associated with the origin of ...

Early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease requires reliable and cost-effective screening methods. Researchers have now discovered that a type of sugar molecule in blood is associated with ...

A new study by researchers at the Wistar Institute demonstrates how key features on the surface of HIV-infected cells help the disease evade detection by the immune system. The researchers discovered ...

Myo-inositol, a sugar molecule found in breast milk, promotes the development of neural connections in infants’ brains. The corresponding study was published in PNAS. Previous studies show that breast ...

BERLIN — Astronomers say that, for the first time, they have discovered one of the ingredients of life — sugar — in a gas cloud surrounding a young star. The team of European and American astronomers ...

Everyday life for the more than 46 million people around the world who suffer from type 1 diabetes could become much easier and safer. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and biotech firm ...

Overly active immune cells are often behind lung damage in diseases such as Covid-19. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed an RNA agent for a lung spray that slows ...

HIV is a master of disguise. Once the virus enters the body, it has a number of sophisticated mechanisms through which it blends in with other cells, completely evading detection by patrolling immune ...

In plants, the space between cells is a key battleground during infection. To avoid recognition in this space, a strain of the bacterial tomato disease Pseudomonas syringae manipulates plants by ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego say an evolutionary gene mutation that occurred in human millions of years ago and our ...

Early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease requires reliable and cost-effective screening methods. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now discovered that a type of sugar ...