Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Grown in Parallel Paths

These single-walled carbon nanotubes also follow parallel paths as they grow so they don't cross each other to potentially impede electronic performance, said…

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Gene Discovery Linked to Branchio-Oculo-Facial Syndrome

This rare disorder is characterized by specific skin anomalies involving the neck and behind the ear, eye abnormalities, a typical facial appearance, and…

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Early parents didn’t stand for weighty kids

Carrying babies that could no longer use their feet to cling to their parents in the way that young apes can has long been thought to be at least one…

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Insects Communicate Through Plants Like Nature’s Phone

Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using…

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High-Quality Protein Crystals Grown in Weightlessness

If the crystals are grown upside down in a strong magnetic field, fluid flows that disrupt crystal growth are suppressed. Therefore, high-quality proteins no…

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Safe, Effective Viral Therapy Shows Promise Against Difficult Cancers

Combining a herpes virus genetically altered to express a drug-enhancing enzyme with a chemotherapy drug effectively and safely reduced the size of highly…

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New OLED Encapsulation Method Boosts Lifespan and Efficiency

OLEDs are promising for the next generation of displays and solid state lighting because they use less power and can be more efficiently manufactured than…

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Transgenic Papaya Genome Draft Reveals Plant Evolution Insights

This draft, which spells out more than 90 percent of the plant’s gene coding sequence, sheds new light on the evolution of flowering plants. And because it…

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Scientists Uncover Mechanism Behind Epigenetic Inheritance

Although letters representing the three billion pairs of molecules that form the “rungs” of the helical DNA “ladder” are routinely called the human “genetic…

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NYU Researchers Discover New Photoreceptors Regulating Senses

The findings, they write, may also have implications for the regulating of olfactory receptors, which are responsible for the detection of smells, because both…

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Gene Mutation Offers New Hope Against Fatal Malaria

Malaria causes an estimated 500 million clinical cases worldwide with symptoms ranging from headache, high fevers and nausea to more than 1 million deaths…

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How Pathogen Proteins Undermine Plant Immunity: New Insights

VBI Professor Brett Tyler and members of his research group, along with researchers from Virginia Tech’s Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed…

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Ugandan Monkeys Show Evidence of Unknown Poxvirus Infection

The findings appear online in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.This is the first effort to screen Ugandan red colobus monkeys for orthopoxviruses, said…

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Lizard Hunting Styles Affect Walking and Running Abilities

The technique lizards use to grab their grub influences how they move, according to researchers at Ohio University. A research team led by doctoral student…

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RNA Insights Enhance Understanding of Plant Disease Spread

The findings and the research approach used by Ohio State University scientists also could have applications in the study of how certain viruses spread in…

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Key Driver of Stomach Cancer Development Uncovered

In a discovery that could lead to the development of new treatments for gastric cancer, scientists at the Melbourne Branch of the international Ludwig…

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