Tag Archives: protein
400,000 new people have joined Folding@Home’s fight against COVID-19
The Folding@Home community has turned its attention toward the fight against COVID-19, and it now has massive computational power at its disposal as a result. The distributed computing project is now working with about 470 petaflops of output in its...
Get ready to eat bugs if you want to live beyond 2050
By 2050 there will be an estimated 10 billion humans living on this planet. That's not just a lot of mouths to feed, those folks will be, on average, wealthier than today's population with a taste for the foods found in regions like the US and Wester...
‘EVE Online’ crowdsourced science data will soon be publicly available
In March 2016, space MMO EVE Online added the Project Discovery minigame which let players classify proteins in their downtime to help researchers. After collecting data for over two years, the project's team recently uploaded it to the publicly-avai...
Birds Use Certain Protein to Sense the Direction of Magnetic Field
Birds have a remarkable ability to navigate. They can fly long distances, even to the places they have never gone before and can return home after months away. But how do birds travel such long...
Birds Use Certain Protein to Sense the Direction of Magnetic Field
Birds have a remarkable ability to navigate. They can fly long distances, even to the places they have never gone before and can return home after months away. But how do birds travel such long...
Scientists want to create animal feed out of light and electricity
Figuring out how to feed the Earth's population is no small feat, which is why a recent development is so exciting. Researchers at the Lappeenranta University of Technology and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have figured out a way to produc...
Extremely detailed images of living cells can now be taken over time
HIV breakthrough may help scientists kill sleeping virus cells
AIDS patients must endure a lifetime of drugs because the virus conceals itself in the immune system and reactivates with a vengeance once the treatment stops. However, French scientists have discovered a marker that makes it possible to identify dor...
Scientists Invent Technique to Carry Protein Instructions into a Cell
Researchers at Stanford University have been refining compounds that would carry instructions for assembling the protein that makes fireflies light up and deliver them into the cells of an...