Synthetic firefly’s glow lights new path to disease detection

Firefly's glow

A research team has found a way to synthetically create a firefly’s ‘glow’ that could have positive impacts on the access to medical light-imaging tools used to detect tumours and other diseases. Fireflies emit their ‘glow’ due to a natural chemical reaction that happens in their abdomens in the presence of an enzyme called luciferase. […]

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AID/APOBECs defence against SARS-CoV-2

AID/APOBECs

AID/APOBECs among important factors in body’s defence against SARS-CoV-2: Together with their multifaceted action mechanisms, activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) and so-called APOBEC proteins are important factors in the body’s immune response and offer fast and effective protection against a large number of DNA and RNA viruses. The task of AID is to strengthen the human […]

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