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Link identified between virus recognition, destruction in bacterial immune system
Michael Terns, left to right, and Rebecca Terns listen to postdoctoral scientist Yunzhou Wei as he talks about proteins on a slide after a...
Vet study reveals Salmonella’s hideout strategy
The Penn-led team discovered how Salmonella enterica can persist and cause chronic infections.
Credit: Image courtesy of University of Pennsylvania
The body's innate immune system is...
Bacteria evade human immune system with a burst of mutations during initial infection
Electron micrograph of the stomach bacteria Helicobactor pylori. A research team including Penn State scientists has discovered that a burst of rapid evolution immediately...
Fish provide insight into the evolution of the immune system
New findings help to explain why we humans have some immune genes that are almost identical to those of chimpanzees.
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New...
Scientists propose existence and interaction of parallel worlds: Many Interacting Worlds theory challenges foundations...
The Burton lab studies tiny, plastic particles as a model for more complex systems. The particles are suspended in a vacuum chamber filled with...
Can the wave function of an electron be divided and trapped?
The electron wave function A canister of liquid helium inside the blue cylinder allowed researchers to experiment with tiny electron bubbles only 3.6 nanometers...
New math and quantum mechanics: Fluid mechanics suggests alternative to quantum orthodoxy
Close-ups of an experiment conducted by John Bush and his student Daniel Harris, in which a bouncing droplet of fluid was propelled across a...
String field theory could be the foundation of quantum mechanics: Connection could be huge...
Artist's abstraction (stock illustration).
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Two USC researchers have proposed a link between string field theory and quantum mechanics that could open...
Proteins ‘ring like bells’: Quantum mechanics and biochemical reactions
Vincent Daris, Hans Bachor, Jiri Janousek, Michael Taylor and Joachim Knittel.
Dr David Turton, the ultrafast laser expert who carried out the laser experiments.
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Quantum microscope for living biology
Vincent Daris, Hans Bachor, Jiri Janousek, Michael Taylor and Joachim Knittel.
Credit: Image courtesy of Australian National University
A team of Australian scientists has developed a...
Quantum RAM: Modelling the big questions with the very small
This image shows the Quantum Optics and Information Lab, Joseph Ho.
Credit: Griffith University
Griffith's Professor Geoff Pryde, who led the project, says that such processes...
