Deciphering

Breaking a longstanding impasse in our understanding of olfaction, scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have created the first molecular-level, 3D picture of how an odor molecule activates a human odorant receptor, a crucial step in…

A clinical research team from the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) leads the…

The Netherlands Forensics Institute (NFI) is part of Uncover, a project aiming to help law enforcement agencies track criminal digital messaging.   Since the encrypted communication network EncroChat was dismantled, criminals have…

Researchers have deciphered a signaling cascade through which inborn errors in metabolism provoke deadly neuroendocrine tumors in the adrenal glands. This discovery explains how impaired metabolism due to mutations in a key enzyme called…

Before young children learn to speak, crying is their only means of vocal communication. But do adults know when a baby is in pain as opposed to being mildly uncomfortable? A new study reported in Current Biology on August 8, 2022 finds…

Around 500,000 people in the UK live with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), a life-long, chronic condition characterised by sporadic bouts of gut inflammation causing debilitating symptoms. Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis -- the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Engineers sometimes turn to nature for inspiration. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Associate Professor Saket…

Maybe that proves how smart he is. That kid has set himself up with a sweet deal. He gets everything he wants, and without once having to bark at an intruder, glower at a recalcitrant wheely bin, or run for a ball.Sometimes I wonder what he…

My first patient that day was a woman in her early 40s, an avid marathon runner who had contracted COVID-19 in March 2020. Now, 13 months later, she noted that she still felt fatigued and short of breath. She also noticed her heart was…

End-to-end encryption is said to be the cornerstone of user privacy. WhatsApp is one of the most popular platforms to use end-to-end encryption for user data. Now, a report has emerged that says that Facebook— which owns WhatsApp — is…