Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

China Emerges as Key Player in Regenerative Medicine Advances

Chinese researchers have become the world's fifth most prolific contributors to peer-reviewed scientific literature on clock-reversing regenerative medicine…

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Warmer Climate May Reduce Trees’ Carbon Uptake Efficiency

As a result, more of the greenhouse gas will be left to concentrate in the atmosphere.”Our findings contradict studies of other ecosystems that conclude longer…

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Cold War offered odd benefit — it limited species invasions

The research found that during an extended period following World War II, when most trade and travel was interrupted between Eastern Europe and its western…

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Genetic Insights: Differentiating Lethal and Treatable Leukemias

A tumor's genetic profile is often useful when diagnosing and deciding on treatment for certain cancers, but inexplicably, genetically similar leukemias in…

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Microbial Cooperation: Why Cousins Aren’t Welcome

The scientists' report, which appears in a recent issue of Current Biology, also provides further evidence that cooperation in nature is not always a festival…

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Sleeping Beauty and Herpes Unite to Combat Brain Diseases

Neuroscientists have forged an unlikely molecular union as part of their fight against diseases of the brain and nervous system.The team has brought together…

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The molecular origins of morphological diversity

Gene duplication, a process whereby a region of DNA containing a gene is duplicated as a result of cell division errors, plays a major role in eukaryotic…

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Gene Linked to Canine Compulsive Disorder Identified in Dogs

A canine chromosome 7 locus that confers a high risk of compulsive disorder susceptibility has been identified through a collaboration between the Behavior…

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CSHL Scientists Discover Key Protein for DNA Replication

The protein, called DDK (for Ddf4-dependent protein kinase), is an enzyme that attaches phosphate molecules to other proteins to modify their activity. The…

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Birds Fight Alien Parasites

With the discovery that the medium ground finches produce antibodies aimed specifically at the parasites – a pox virus and a nest fly – “the next step is to…

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Biodegradable Particles Can Bypass Mucus, Release Drugs Over Time

The researchers say these nanoparticles, which degrade over time into harmless components, could one day carry life-saving drugs to patients suffering from…

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Ongoing Evolution Among Modern Humans: the View from the Teeth

As a result, in considerations of the biology of late archaic humans such as the Neandertals, it is common to compare them to living humans and largely ignore…

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Experimental Drug Shows Promise Against Brain, Prostate Cancers

The drug’s actions, observed in isolated human cells in one trial and in rodents in the other, are especially encouraging because they attacked not only the…

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Engineered Tobacco Plants Have More Potential as a Biofuel

According to Vyacheslav Andrianov, Ph.D., assistant professor of Cancer Biology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, tobacco can…

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Innovative Solutions for Safe Drinking Water Access

Drinking water can transmit a number of diseases, including typhoid, dysentery, cholera, and diarrhea, which can then spread explosively throughout an entire…

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New Fluorescent Proteins Reveal Brain Cell Electrical Signals

The protein was engineered by researchers at RIKEN to help analyze rapid electrical signals in populations of nerve cells and provides a unique window onto…

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