Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, led by Dr. Helin Norberg and Dr. Erik Norberg, have identified a previously unknown ...

Opossum uses its defense mechanism of 'playing dead' when it feels threatened. It collapses, emits a foul odour, and becomes ...

A team of scientists has just revealed an unsuspected function of the immune system, paving the way for new antibiotics. This ...

Scientists observed male blue-lined octopuses injecting tetrodotoxin into females, which rendered them immobile for mating ...

Much like humans generate mountains of garbage, our cells are constantly discarding proteins that are damaged or no longer ...

Bacteriophages, the most abundant life form on Earth, infect bacterial cells and influence the structure of the microbial ...

As well as degrading proteins, the proteosome surprisingly also functions in human defence against bacterial infection. By ...