Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

New Toxin Receptor Found in H. Pylori Infection Research

Their findings appear this week in PLoS Pathogens, a journal of the Public Library of Science. About half of the world’s population is infected with H. pylori,…

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Adaptive Snake Proteins Offer Insight Into Human Metabolism

Snakes have been previously proposed as an ideal model system to study evolution, and results from a current UC Denver School of Medicine study published in…

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DNA Repair Mechanism Observed in Real Time by Researchers

Insight into this type of repair mechanism is essential as errors in this process can lead to the development of cancerous cells. Researchers from the Kavli…

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Astronauts and Space Sickness: The Weightlessness Effect

Gravity plays a major role in our spatial orientation. Changes in gravitational forces, such as the transition to weightlessness during a space voyage,…

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Photonic Beetle Crystals: Advancing Optical Computer Tech

”By looking at biological events we have found differences that in future could be used as markers to make a more secure prognosis for women with ovarian…

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Andalusian Scientists Study Fly’s Ovary to Go Deeply into Stem Cells

The reproductive system of this insect will be a model to understand stem cells better and make progress in their future use to treat certain human…

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EU Researchers Propose DNA Collection Tracing Like Books

Tracing biological collections, or biobanks, is crucial for genetic studies of all diseases, since using larger and larger collections is becoming the gold…

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Discover the Secret Ingredient for the Perfect Sandwich

Speaking at an Institution of Chemical Engineers’ (IChemE) lecture, Professor Grant Campbell said that bubbles in bread are as important for making a good…

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Photonic Beetle: Nature’s Blueprint for Optical Computing

“It appears that a simple creature like a beetle provides us with one of the technologically most sought-after structures for the next generation of…

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How Enzymes Enhance Laundry Detergent Efficiency

The innovative use of an advanced microscopic technique that visualizes and quantifies how enzymes work in laundry detergents to better clean cotton fibers is…

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Plant Flavonoid Reduces Brain Inflammation, Study Reveals

The study appears this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Inflammation can be a blessing or a blight. It is a critical part of the body’s…

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Counting immune cells on a 'protein printboard'

The researchers have succeeded in neatly lining up proteins on a surface. The process also allows patterns of various types of proteins to be created. The…

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Fungus Turns Plants into Biofuels with Key Genes

The results, published online on the Nature biotechnology (1) website, show that only a few genes are responsible for the fungus's enzymatic activity. They…

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Abnormal 'editing' of gene messages may be a cause of lupus

The findings, reported online in the journal Immunology, involve an enzyme that “edits” and modifies the messages of genes before the protein-making process….

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New Biological Classification of Ovarian Cancer – A Possibility for Better Survival

A better prognosis would considerably improve the quality of life of patients since the treatment could be made more effective and thereby result in fewer side…

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Mystery Crustacean: Unraveling the Larval Puzzle

No one has ever found an adult of these puzzling crustaceans, despite the plethora of these larvae in plankton, leading generations of marine zoologists to…

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