The biochip could speed this process dramatically. It would contain antibodies to Listeria monocytogenes obtained from rabbits or mice. Antibodies are natural defense proteins that organisms use to ...

The ancestor of plants, animals and fungi evolved around 2 billion years ago, likely from a group of complex microbes called Asgard archaea — and we inherited two defense proteins that fight off ...

By controlling how defense proteins are translated, scientists were able to bolster plant immunity without causing collateral damage (bottom right).

Complementary discoveries have the potential to enhance treatment options for antibiotic-resistant infections. Researchers at ...

Leão and his team used a database of prokaryotic defense systems to study the distribution of complete systems in the genomes of archaea, including Asgard archaea, and bacteria. 7 The researchers ...

Proteomic studies revealed that mitochondria contain ∼1,000 (in yeast) to 1,500 (in humans) different proteins and led to the recent identification of new mitochondrial import pathways and ...