Key ingredient in coronavirus tests comes from Yellowstone’s lakes. A curious life-form that lives in the park’s thermal pools makes a protein that changed the course of biomedical history.

For example, the PCR test — widely in use during the COVID-19 pandemic to check for the virus’s presence — requires an enzyme that was first found in a thermophile called Thermus aquaticus.

The benefits of basic scientific study take time, even decades after an initial finding. Research cuts will hinder our progress.

Here we report the crystal structure of the 30S subunit from Thermus thermophilus, refined to 3 Å resolution. ... Thermus thermophilus, T. aquaticus and T. flavus . ...

Jason Somarelli, assistant professor of medical oncology in the Duke Department of Medicine, is working with two teams to determine which mixtures of plastic additives are the most harmful, rather ...

Intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence spectroscopy is an important tool for examining the effects of molecular crowding and confinement on the structure, dynamics, and function of proteins. Synthetic ...

TNP-2198, a stable conjugate of a rifamycin pharmacophore and a nitroimidazole pharmacophore, has been designed, synthesized, and evaluated as a novel dual-targeted antibacterial agent for the ...

Polysome formation within the nucleoid and repulsion between these major cytoplasmic components provide a self-organizing mechanism for chromosome segregation and modulation of its timing across ...

The Whooper Swan is a familiar winter visitor across much of Britain and Ireland, though is less commonly encountered in the more southern counties.A large swan, with a triangular yellow bill patch, ...

At the phylum level, Verrucomicrobia, Deinococcus-Thermus, Crenarchaeota, Armatimonadetes, and Planctomycetes formed a major group and associated more with water parameters, such as dissolved oxygen, ...