Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Drug Reverses Mental Impairment in Tuberous Sclerosis

UCLA researchers discovered that an FDA-approved drug reverses the brain dysfunction inflicted by a genetic disease called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)….

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Leukemia Drug Offers New Hope for Stroke Patient Treatment

The drug tPA is the most effective treatment currently available for stroke patients, but its safety is limited to use within the first three hours following…

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Key Factors in B-Cell Lymphoma Development Uncovered

Researchers at National Jewish Medical and Research Center have discovered an important factor in the development of B-cell lymphomas, one of the fastest…

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3-D Model Helps Biologists Combat Blue Tongue Virus

The WMG University of Warwick researchers based their model on data provided by the Institute of Animal Health at Pirbright, and from Oxford University. The…

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Cell-Specific Gene Delivery: A New Paradigm Unveiled

In studies to determine how plasmids enter the nuclei of non-dividing cells, the group previously identified a region of a smooth muscle cell-specific promoter…

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Pumice: Unveiling Bronze Age Life in the Mediterranean

During the Bronze Age, between the years 3000 and 1000 B.C., the Mediterranean was already intensely populated. Each individual culture, whether it may be the…

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Microscopic Clutch Mechanism Controls Flagellum Motion

Scientists have long known what drives the flagellum to spin, but what causes the flagellum to stop spinning — temporarily or permanently — was unknown. “We…

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Benzene-like Electron Delocalization: New Insights Uncovered

Given the appearance of benzene derivatives in biomedical research and materials science, the boron-nitrogen substituted analogues could potentially play a…

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Engineers Develop 3D Model to Aid Blue Tongue Virus Research

The WMG University of Warwick researchers based their model on data provided by the Institute of Animal Health at Pirbright, and from Oxford University. The…

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Female Red Squirrels: Why Any Male Will Do for Mating

While males mating with multiple females is quite common in the animal kingdom, females that multi-mate is much harder to explain.Through their observations,…

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Patient’s Own Infection-fighting T Cells Put Late-stage Melanoma Into Long-term Remission

Yee and colleagues removed CD4+ T cells, a type of white blood cell, from a 52-year-old man whose Stage 4 melanoma had spread to a groin lymph node and to a…

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Worm-Like Marine Animal Offers Insights Into Human Evolution

Research on the genome of a marine creature led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is shedding new light on a key area of the…

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New Discovery Reveals Key Controller of Cell Movement

Using computer models and live cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered a specific pattern that can direct cell movement and may help us understand…

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Primate Brain Study Reveals Evolutionarily Preserved Signature

These findings, published June 20th in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, indicate that some of these differences arose a very long time ago and have been…

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Gene-Expression Profiling Reveals Liver Toxin Effects

It is hoped that these findings, published in BioMed Central’s open access journal, Genome Biology, will lead to a more precise way of defining the potential…

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Manchester Takes First Step in €170M European Biobank Project

The Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research (CIGMR), based in the School of Translational Medicine, is playing a key role in developing the Biobanking…

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