Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

How Microbes Shape Barley Malt for Better Brewing

Microbes – bacteria, yeasts and filamentous fungi – have a decisive role in the barley-malt-beer chain. Microbes greatly influence the malting and brewing…

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New Mass Spectrometer Weighs Virus Particles and Proteins

“This is a new frontier in mass spectrometry research,” said Bier, associate research professor and director of the Center for Molecular Analysis in the…

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p15: A Key Tumor Suppressor in the Absence of p16

Now, scientist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in Amsterdam have discovered that p15 can fulfil a critical backup…

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Inducing Out-of-Body Experiences in the Lab: New Technique

Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have now come up with a technique that recreates this sensation in fully conscious healthy…

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Space-Grown Strep Bacteria Returned for Groundbreaking Study

The space travelers Niesel was meeting weren’t astronauts. They were Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria, members of a species commonly found in the human upper…

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New Gene Family Key to Early Development Discovered

All organisms consist of a number of different cell types each producing different proteins. The nerve cells produce proteins necessary for the nerve cell…

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Cells’ Social Habits: Unlocking Disease-Fighting Innovations

As part of a new £18 million project spanning six countries, The Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology at The University of Manchester will…

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Broccoli Compound May Enhance Immune System, Study Finds

Veggie fans can already point to some cancer-fighting properties of 3,3'-diindolylmethane (DIM), a chemical produced from the compound indole-3-carbinol when…

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Battling bitter coffee — chemists vs. main source of coffee bitterness

Research by others over the past few years has identified an estimated 25 to 30 compounds that could contribute to the perceived bitterness of coffee. But the…

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Clemson Scientists Enhance Fluorescent Molecules in Cells

Clemson University chemists have developed a method to dramatically improve the longevity of fluorescent nanoparticles that may someday help researchers track…

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Corn Biorefining Transforms Gelatin Production for Today’s Needs

The advance, described today at the 234th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, may lead to a safe, inexpensive source of this protein for…

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Gene Triggers OCD-Like Behaviors in Mice, Study Reveals

Using genetic engineering, researchers have created an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) – like set of behaviors in mice and reversed them with…

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Lab-Created Natural Insecticide: Breakthrough Research Success

Twenty-two years of dedicated research has finally resulted in success: In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a British team headed by Steven V. Ley at the…

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Eukaryotic Kinases: Common Substrates and Disease Implications

Dysregulation of protein phosphorylation plays a major role in many diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. In addition, the elucidation of…

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Scientists Find Marburg Virus in African Fruit Bats

Appearing in the open-access scientific journal PLoS ONE, the study is the first in which RT-PCR and serological findings have both affirmed Marburg infection…

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Norway Explores Bio-Prospecting Opportunities for Innovation

The three organisations recently took this step in response to the Government's large-scale national initiative on bio-prospecting (the search for valuable,…

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