Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

EU patients taking genetic tests can now check out testing laboratory's credentials on-line

In a major advance patients and their families across Europe can now check out on-line the credentials of laboratories offering genetic tests. Over the last…

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New Insights on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Agent Diversity

The study, published March 14th in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, suggests that these subgroups could represent distinct prion strains in what is the…

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MicroRNAs Boost Zebrafish Fin Regeneration Insights

Tiny wonders of the aquarium world, zebrafish can regenerate organs and tissues, including hearts, eye parts and fins. When a fin is lost, the fish regenerates…

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New Chemical Targets Latent Tuberculosis Bacteria Effectively

Success in the laboratory suggests that a new compound can point the way to preventing active tuberculosis in people infected with the latent form of the…

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Nutrient Regulation of Plant Biological Clock Uncovered

The study will appear in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This hypothesis derived from multi-network analysis of…

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New Treatment Leads for Parasitic Worm Disease Discovered

A research team supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has…

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New Mouse Model Mimics Human Mesothelioma Disease

MM is an aggressive cancer originating from the mesothelial lining of the pleural cavity and is associated with asbestos exposure and is characterized by a…

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Modern Matrons: Overcoming Barriers to Leadership Empowerment

Researchers at the Institute for Science and Society say ‘modern matrons’ face organisational barriers to empowerment, and unless significant budgetary…

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MDC Researchers Reconstruct Jumping Gene – New Tool for Elucidating the Function of Genes

At the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, researchers have now succeeded in reconstructing the first active transposon of…

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Swiss Systems Biology Initiative Unveils Eight Flagship Projects

These eight projects address a diverse set of basic biological questions ranging from the role of lipids in cells to the mechanisms underlying decision-making…

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Understanding Fullerenes: Production and Molecular Division

And most importantly, the complex allows, if necessary, to divide them by the molecular mass, i.e., to single out the most investigated and often used…

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Cause of Death Revealed for Oimyakon Baby Mammoth

There remained only the head, part of the proboscis, the neck area and part of the breast of the baby mammoth’s body. The body is practically cut off behind…

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Fungi Insights: Unraveling the Origins of Sex Chromosomes

In the plant and animal kingdoms there are individuals of different sexes, that is, bearers of either many tiny sex cells (males) or a few large ones…

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Eco-Friendly Pyrotechnics: Chemistry Meets Sustainable Innovation

You know it is chemistry when it stinks and goes boom—and entrances us. “No other application in the field of chemistry has such a positive association for the…

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Student Uncovers Flying Grasshopper in Rare Insect Discovery

Sam Heads, a research student at the University of Portsmouth, was sent specimens thought to be stick insects from two German museums but he knew instantly he…

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New Insights on Proteins for Breast Cancer Treatment

The study, led by Dr Jeremy Blaydes, will explore how one specific group of molecules called C-Terminal Binding Proteins (CtBPs) prevent breast cancer cell…

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