Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Gene Therapy Lowers Cocaine Use in Rats: New Research Insights

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have shown that increasing the brain level of receptors for dopamine, a…

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Groundbreaking Discovery: RGS5 Gene May Treat Tumors

Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR) Associate Professor Ruth Ganss and her team have found that a gene called RGS5 can reverse…

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Cone Snails and Plants Inspire New Pain Relief Drug

Professor David Craik and Dr Richard Clark from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience have received $218,275 from the National Health and Medical Research…

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Fruit Flies Reveal Salmonella’s Immune Evasion Tactics

Researchers have come closer to understanding how these bacteria manage to thwart two major categories of immune defenses at once and set up shop in a host…

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Study Reveals Intelligence in Slowly-Developing Primate Species

The four investigators compared key benchmarks in the development of 28 different primate species, ranging from humans living free of modern trappings in South…

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Bloodless Worm Reveals Insights on Iron Deficiency in Humans

With C. elegans , a common microscopic worm that lives in dirt, Iqbal Hamza, assistant professor of animal and avian sciences, and his team identified…

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Green Gel: New Hybrid Materials from UC Berkeley Researchers

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) have now developed a new strategy for the formation of hybrid materials from synthetic polymers and…

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New Technique Enhances Chromatin Structure Insights

Their findings appear in Nature Methods.Scientists have known for more than a century that proteins, such as histones, aid in packing DNA into the nucleus of a…

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Comparing the Latest Drugs for Rheumatoid Arthritis Relief

RA is a chronic, debilitating, inflammatory disease of the joints, which is usually treated with anti-inflammatory drugs such as methotrexate or steroids….

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Intelligent Design vs. Evolution: Exploring Complex Origins

The proponents of intelligent design believe that chance and selection are too casual and slow to allow complex new properties to arise. In particular, they…

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New Study Uncovers Insulin Production Issues in Type 2 Diabetes

In Germany, about 8 million people are affected. These numbers could even be an underestimation as a relatively high number of undiagnosed diabetics remains….

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Cordless 3-D Images: Instant Capture for Police Officers

There will soon be an easier way of doing it: The police officers will only need to pick up a 3-D sensor, press a button as on a camera, and a few seconds…

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Breakthrough in Migraine Genetics: New Insights on Pain Factors

Migraine is the most common cause of episodic headache, and by far the most common neurological cause of a doctor’s visit. It affects some 15% of the…

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New Sugar Approach Shows Promise Against Tumors

Jonathan Coloff, a graduate student in Assistant Professor Jeffrey Rathmell’s laboratory in the Duke Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, has found…

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Smithsonian scientists find evidence that could rewrite Hawaii's botanical history

Their findings are being published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B in London on April 16.Metrosideros, commonly called “ohi’a” in the…

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New Insights into Cell Division from MIT Research

Proteins that control cell division play a far more nuanced role than researchers previously thought in the process that gives rise to reproductive cells,…

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