Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Fingerprint of Cocaine Addiction Uncovered

The identified changes are more numerous and long-lasting than previously thought, which may provide a biological explanation for why cocaine addiction is so…

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New Molecular Alarm System Protects Skin Integrity

What they found was a molecular alarm system that serves as a sentinel to monitor the integrity of skin — the body's essential protective barrier. The fatal…

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Avoiding Spleen Removal for Cooley's Anemia Sufferers

Preclinical Study Provides Fresh Perspective on Disease, with Potential New Therapeutic OptionsResearchers from Weill Cornell Medical College may have…

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Regulatory B cells exist — and pack a punch

Using a new set of scientific tools to identify and count these cells, the team showed that these B cells can block contact hypersensitivity, the type of skin…

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Brain Cells Aid Nerve Regeneration: New Research Insights

Researchers have uncovered a completely unexpected way that the brain repairs nerve damage, wherein cells known as astrocytes deliver a protective protein to…

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The secret behind silkworm's hardy stomachs

Mulberry leaves contain an extremely high amount of alkaloids that inhibit enzymes that break down sucrose (sugar), and thus are potentially quite toxic….

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Scientists Capture Birth of Single HIV Particle

A mapmaker and a mathematician may seem like an unlikely duo, but together they worked out a way to measure longitude — and kept millions of sailors from…

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Origin of Cells for Connective Tissues of Skull & Face Challenged

Weston and co-authors from the Max Planck Institute of Immunology in Germany and the French National Scientific Research Centre at the Curie Institute document…

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Glowing Films Detect Explosives from Contaminated Fingerprints

Contaminated fingerprints leave dark shadows on the films, which glow blue under ultraviolet light. One of the films can distinguish between different classes…

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Large-scale community protein annotation – WikiProteins

The WikiProfessional technology underlying the site has been developed based upon the collaborative Wikipedia approach. Described in BioMed Central’s open…

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Finnish Researchers Unveil Salt Lake Archaeal Virus Structure

The results that shed new light on the evolution of viruses will be published this week in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy…

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Leiden Scientists Sequence First Female DNA for Insights

Following in-depth analysis, the sequence will be made public, except incidental privacy-sensitive findings. The results will contribute to insights into human…

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Global Drug Research Leverages Diamond Synchrotron in Oxfordshire

Vertex will utilise the Diamond Synchrotron, the largest scientific facility to be built in the UK for 40 years, to advance its research programmes for the…

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How to construct a “firefly” worm

The key behind this capacity relies in the fact that the luminescence is produced using the animal’s available energy, which reflects its metabolism that, as…

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Securing the future of Europe’s biological data resources

The consortium ultimately aims to establish a sustainably funded infrastructure for biological information in Europe, to support innovation in life science…

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Stressed Cells: Understanding Their Rapid Reaction Time

This has now been done by CNRS researcher Pascal Hersen (1) and the team led by Sharad Ramanathan at the Center for Systems Biology (Harvard University). Using…

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