Researchers reveal the structural details of apoB100’s interaction with LDL receptors, offering insights into LDL dimerization and potential treatments for familial hypercholesterolemia.
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Chimps use medicinal plants to treat illnesses, may help find new drugs
The instrument uses light to move atoms to measure incredibly small forces.
A new study finds that chimpanzees’ self-medication has helped scientists identify some promising plants for future pharmaceuticals. In the study, Oxford researchers have identified no less than 13 plants with potent wound-healing and infection-fighting properties.
The researchers made this astounding discovery thanks to the help of wild chimpanzees. By observing them in the wild, the team found that chimps tend to eat bark, dead wood, and leaves that are not part of their diet when sick or injured.
Can reality be expanded? This tech says yes
There’s a very simple answer for why we need this. In one word, it’s connection. Touch is what connects us to each other and it connects us to the world around us. And if I can actually reach and feel something, it’s real to me.
Generative language models exhibit social identity biases
Researchers show that large language models exhibit social identity biases similar to humans, having favoritism toward ingroups and hostility toward outgroups. These biases persist across models, training data and real-world human–LLM conversations.
Researchers Uncover New Class of Magnetism That Could Revolutionize Digital Devices
Researchers say they’ve discovered a new class of magnetism called ‘Altermagnetism,’ which could revolutionize digital devices.
The First Carbon-14 Diamond Battery Is Here—and It Could Run for 5,700 Years
Diamonds aren’t quite forever… but they’re damn close.
Cerebras Demonstrates Trillion Parameter Model Training on a Single CS-3 System
CePO enables Llama3.3 70B to outperform flagship Llama 3.1 405B model and leading closed source models.
Sparks! | Magdalena Kowalska | Future of detection and imaging
Talk recorded live at CERN on 17 November 2022 during the second edition of the Sparks! Serendipity Forum at CERN. #CERNSparks.
There are many developments in the field of detection and imaging, and some are happening here at CERN — as Madgdalena Kowalska, a senior researchers explains.
Finally, a new Cybernetika track!
Neuronal Interface is slightly oldschool DnB/Neuro, Deus Ex and cyberpunk influenced.
Atomic force microscopy reveals microtubule defects at submolecular resolution
In a study recently published in the journal Nano Letters, researchers from Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, used frequency-modulated atomic force microscopy to reveal the submolecular structure of microtubule (MT) inner surface and visualize structural defects in the MT lattice, providing valuable insights into the complex dynamic processes that regulate microtubule function.
Microtubules (MTs), a key component of the cytoskeleton in eukaryotic cells, serve as scaffolds and play vital roles in cellular processes such as cell division, cell migration, intracellular transport, and trafficking. MTs are composed of α-tubulin and β-tubulin proteins, which polymerize into dimers and assemble into linear protofilaments that form a cylindrical lattice.
Traditional methods like X-ray crystallography and cryo–electron microscopy have provided structural insights into MTs but involve complex sample preparation and data analysis. There remains a need for techniques that can examine MT structural features, assembly dynamics, and lattice defects at submolecular resolution under physiological conditions.