Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

First Land Animals’ Color Vision Unveiled by Researchers

A team led by Helena Bailes at the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, analysed retinas from Australian lungfish…

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Researchers find signal that switches on eye development – Could lead to “eye in a dish”

The University of Warwick research team led by Professor Nick Dale and Professor Elizabeth Jones from the University of Warwick’s Biological Sciences…

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Bird flu finds children's lungs faster

John Nicholls and colleagues at the University of Hong Kong and Adelaide Women and Children's Hospital, in Australia, describe a modified technique to…

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Nanoballs: Targeted Drug Delivery for Cancer Treatment

Anticancer drugs sometimes have very harmful side effects because they do not distinguish between tumours and healthy tissue. However by encapsulating these…

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Animal Biotechnology: Enhancing Traits in Breeding Success

In breeding both domestic and farm animals for example, it is now possible to select individuals with a wide spectrum of desirable traits in a single…

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Legionnaire's bacterial proteins work together to survive

“This supposedly simple organism continues to fascinate us with new tricks that enable it to manipulate cells in our body that normally protect us against…

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New Light Trap Captures Larval Stage of Unique Species

When David Jones, a fisheries oceanographer at the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) located at the University of Miami’s…

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DASGIP Unveils BioLector Micro-Bioreactor for Screening Efficiency

The “DASGIP BioLector” has been developed by m2p-labs, Aachen, Germany, who entered into a partnership with DASGIP to bring the new product to market. Under…

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A 'fault' in the cellular power plant explains the abnormal metabolism of tumours

The German Nobel laureate Otto Warburg, one of twentieth century's leading scientists observed that tumour cells exhibit an increased aerobic glucose…

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St. Bernard Study Challenges Creationism Through Evolution

Biologists at The University of Manchester say that changes to the shape of the breed’s head over the years can only be explained through evolution and natural…

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Boost Oil Production with Hydrophobic Gel Innovation

This problem can be resolved by using a chemical substance that forms a gel between the water and the oil. Dutch researcher Hein Castelijns wrote an…

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Stem Cells: New Hope for Eye Damage and Rare Skin Disorders

Doctors and scientists in Italy have shown how stem cells can be used to treat damaged eyes and, in combination with gene therapy, a rare and debilitating skin…

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Exploring Epstein-Barr: Innovations in Virus Research

David Thorley-Lawson, PhD, professor of pathology at Tufts University School of Medicine, is combining PathSim, laboratory methods, and clinical studies to…

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New Device Targets Cancer Cells for Effective Capture

MIT and University of Rochester researchers report important advances toward a therapeutic device that has the potential to capture cells as they flow through…

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Healthier Mice Provide Insights Into Human Aging Research

The team studied ‘knock-out’ mice engineered to lack either insulin receptor substrate (IRS)-1 or -2. These proteins are activated by insulin, a hormone that…

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Exploring Pheromones: Insights From Animal Research

Pheromones perform a lot of functions, and the researchers are striving to perceive them all, but they carry out the investigations mainly on healthy animals….

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