Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Synthetic Molecules Inspired by Spice Show Promise Against Cancer

Seeking to improve on nature, scientists used a spice-based compound as a starting point and developed synthetic molecules that, in lab settings, are able to…

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Boost Lycopene Absorption by Heating Tomatoes

Turning up the heat on the red tomato during processing has the potential to give the popular garden staple added disease-fighting power, Ohio State University…

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Light Receptors: Key to Regulating Your Biological Clock

The new finding demonstrates that light receptor cells in the eye are central to setting the rhythms of the brain's primary timekeeper, the suprachiasmatic…

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Molecular Sleuths Uncover Evolution Insights in Ribosomes

The new analysis, from researchers at the University of Illinois, reveals that key regions of the ribosome differ between bacteria and archaea, microbes that…

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Nanotubes Enhance Cancer Treatment by Targeting Tumors Directly

Cancer researchers have long faced a similar situation in chemotherapy: how to get the most medication into the cells of a tumor without “spillover” of the…

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Big-Brained Animals: Faster Evolution in Darwin’s Finches

A textbook example is Darwin finches from Galapagos, whose ancestor colonized a competitors-free archipelago and rapidly radiated in 13 species, each one…

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Amplifying Cell Death Signals to Target Precancerous Cells

Now, in research to appear in the August 15 issue of Genes & Development, Rockefeller University scientists have figured out a way in mice to amplify the…

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Potatoes may hold key to Alzheimer's treatment

Studies in mice have demonstrated that vaccinations with the amyloid beta protein (believed to be a major AD contributor) to produce AƒÒ antibodies can slow…

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Menstrual Blood Stem Cells Save Limbs in Exciting Study

A study published today in BioMed Central’s open access Journal of Translational Medicine demonstrates that when circulation-blocked mice were treated with ERC…

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Safer Synthetic Heparin: Chemists Make Significant Progress

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration last spring linked contaminated batches of the animal-based product, imported from China, to more than 80 deaths and…

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New Air Pollutant Mimics Cigarette Smoke Effects

The discovery could help explain the long-standing medical mystery of why non-smokers develop tobacco-related diseases like lung cancer, said H. Barry…

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Monash Team Draws Inspiration from Nature to Split Water

The breakthrough could revolutionise the renewable energy industry by making hydrogen – touted as the clean, green fuel of the future – cheaper and easier to…

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Lake Washington Microbes Reveal Insights Through Metagenomics

In a paper appearing in Nature Biotechnology August 17, a collaboration headed by researchers at the University of Washington and the U.S. Department of Energy…

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New Gene Silencing Technology Targets Disease-Causing Genes

Mount Sinai researchers have developed a new gene silencing technology that could be used to target genes that can lead to the development of certain diseases….

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Chemists Create Soft Landing Beds Using Protein Coils

Bedsprings aren't often found in biology. Now, chemists have succeeded in making a layer of tiny protein coils attached to a surface, much like miniature…

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Pesticide Build-Up Threatens Honey Bee Health and Survival

Add the outside assault to the pesticides already in the waxy structure of the hive, and bee researchers see a problem difficult to evaluate and correct….

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