Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Genetics of Patterning the Cerebral Cortex: How Stem Cells Yield Functional Regions in “Gray Matter”

In the Oct. 11 advance online edition of Nature Neuroscience, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have identified the…

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Loss of Tumor Supressor Gene Essential in Transforming Benign Nerve Tumors into Cancers

The work, a collaboration between the Institute for Molecular Medicine, the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology and the cancer center’s Sarcoma…

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Sniffing Out Chemical, Biological Threats

The research effort, led by Dr. Hai Xiao of Missouri University of Science and Technology, involves the development of tiny sensors – each about the size of a…

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New Bacterial RNA Repair System Revealed by Researchers

The novelty of the newly discovered bacterial RNA repair system is that, before the damaged RNA is sealed, a methyl group is added to the two-prime hydroxyl…

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Gene Mingling Linked to Higher Sudden Death Risk

The investigators – from the United States, Italy and South Africa – report in the journal Circulation that variations in the gene NOS1AP increase the risk of…

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T Cells Target Myelin Sheaths in Multiple Sclerosis Study

This is what regularly happens in the targeted immunological attack on the myelin sheaths of the nerve cells, as shown experimentally for the first time by…

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New Insights on Epilepsy Drug’s Mechanism and Therapy Potential

The finding may also point to new therapies for brain injury and neuropathic pain.The role of neurons in the brain and nervous system is well known, but…

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No such thing as 'junk RNA'

The findings, published last week in the online version of the Journal of Virology, represent the first examination of very small RNA products termed unusually…

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Singapore Scientists Unlock Key to p53 Tumor Suppressor Gene

Scientists at the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have determined how the master gene regulator p53 could switch a gene in a cell “on” or “off” by…

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UF researchers find triggers in cells' transition from colitis to cancer

Scientists observed that cancer stem cells taken from the gastrointestinal system in patients with a chronic digestive disease called ulcerative colitis will…

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Stanford researchers' magnetic nanotags spot cancer in mice earlier than current methods

Searching for biomarkers that can warn of diseases such as cancer while they are still in their earliest stage is likely to become far easier thanks to an…

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Tumor Suppressor Gene Loss Turns Benign Nerve Tumors Cancerous

The work, a collaboration between the Institute for Molecular Medicine, the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology and the cancer center's Sarcoma…

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Small … smaller … smallest? ASU researchers create molecular diode

In the electronics world, diodes are a versatile and ubiquitous component. Appearing in many shapes and sizes, they are used in an endless array of devices and…

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Rare Crow Rediscovered: A Hope for Endangered Species

Known to science only by two specimens described in 1900, a critically endangered crow has re-emerged on a remote, mountainous Indonesian island thanks in part…

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Standardizing Genome Sequences: Defining ‘Draft’ and ‘Finished’

More than a decade later, researchers are finding that with the advent of the latest sequencing technologies the terms “draft” and “finished” are no longer…

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Liver cells grown from patients' skin cells

Scientists at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee have successfully produced liver cells from patients' skin cells opening the possibility of…

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