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Medicine
fromNature
17 hours ago

Old antibiotics are being revived to fight new threats

Antimicrobial peptides can target bacterial protective layers, making resistance harder, and modern tools may enable safer, renewed therapies against resistant infections.
fromNature
5 months ago

This scientist found a new trick of the immune system by digging through cellular rubbish

From her office at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, she holds up a blue plastic model of a proteasome, a barrel-shaped structure with a hollow core. The function seems simple: proteins enter the chamber, where they are shredded and then exit as smaller peptide fragments. But the machinery is surprisingly elaborate. The core comprises more than two dozen protein subunits and can associate with a variety of regulatory caps.
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