Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Goldfish Pain Perception: Insights From New Research

Joseph Garner, an assistant professor of animal sciences, helped develop a test that found goldfish do feel pain, and their reactions to it are much like that…

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Climate change threatens Lake Baikal's unique biota

Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest and most biologically diverse lake, faces the prospect of severe ecological disruption as a result of climate…

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Single Gene Defect Linked to Stroke and Heart Diseases

The study, “Mutations in Smooth Muscle Alpha-Actin (ACTA2) Cause Early Onset Coronary Artery Disease, Stroke and Moyamoya Disease, Along with Thoracic Aortic…

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ISU Researcher Uncovers Key Protein Role in Cell Transcription

An Iowa State University researcher has figured out a mechanism involved in marking where these instructions are located in a cell's DNA.In the current edition…

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"Food mill" for proteins – new method improves protein analysis considerably

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry have now developed a new universally employable sample preparation method that combines the advantages…

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Olfactory Bulb: Insights on Long-Term Potentiation in Neuroscience

Ben W. Strowbridge, Ph.D, associate professor of Neuroscience and Physiology/Biophysics, and Yuan Gao, a Ph.D. student in the neurosciences program at Case…

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Gel-Based Glue Inspired by Snails for Surgical Adhesives

The tenacity of these glues on wet surfaces is difficult to match with artificial adhesives.Following up on their original research identifying the key…

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Genetic Breakthrough: Unlocking Date Palm DNA Secrets

“We have generated a draft DNA sequence and initial assembly of the date palm using the most advanced technology,” says Joel Malek, director of the Genomics…

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New Insights on Controlling T Cell Growth Through ELF4

In previous work, Dr. Daniel Lacorazza, assistant professor of pathology at BCM, along with his research team, identified a transcription factor, ELF4, which…

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New Disease Linked to DNA Damage from UV and Toxins

The DNA is being damaged continuously: It is affected by solar UV radiation just as by toxic substances from the environment. However, defects also occur…

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Small molecules might block mutant protein production in Huntington's disease

These man-made molecules also were effective against the abnormal protein that causes Machado-Joseph disease, a neurological condition similar to Huntington’s.The work has been done only in cultured cells, and it will take years before the effectiveness of this process can be tested in patients, the researchers cautioned….

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Hyperactive "Sleeping Beauty" – MDC Scientists: "Optimized Tool for Gene Delivery"

“The new transposon system is able to introduce genes into cells and to stably insert them into the cell's genome at an unprecedented efficiency,” Dr. Lajos…

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New MOF Preparation Process by RUB Chemists Enhances Storage

Many molecular materials, be they hydrogen for fuel cells or drugs, can be stored in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). This would even be possible for metal…

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Nematodes Unravel Secrets of Biological Phenomena

In studying the mystery of these biological phenomena, Asako Sugimoto, Team Leader of the Laboratory for Developmental Genomics in the Center for Developmental…

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Cytokinin Boosts Crop Yields Amid Food Crisis Challenges

The world will reportedly face a food crisis as a result of the population explosion and other factors in the near future. To increase crop yields is a major…

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Exploring the New Soy Gene Catalogue for Enhanced Agriculture

In the thousands of years since the soybean was first cultivated, it has only become more useful and important, providing nutrition for billions of humans and…

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