Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Australia’s White Dorper Leads Flock Screening for Fragile Skin

The disease dermatosparaxis also exists in other breeds but White Dorper breeders are the first to opt for a mass flock screening program in Australia.”Their…

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Fish Eyes May Help Repair Human Retinal Damage

Retinal damage is responsible for the majority of cases of blindness. Diseases damaging the retina including macular degeneration, glaucoma and diabetes are…

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Gold Nanoparticles: A Breakthrough in Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Purdue University researchers have created gold nanoparticles that are capable of identifying marker proteins on breast cancer cells, making the tiny particles…

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Nanoparticles Under Magnetic Force Enhance Gene Therapy Delivery

After binding DNA segments to tiny iron-containing spheres called nanoparticles, researchers have used magnetic fields to direct the nanoparticles into…

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Circumstellar Space: A New Frontier for Chemical Reactions

Picture a cool place, teeming with a multitude of hot bodies twirling about in rapidly changing formations of singles and couples, partners and groups,…

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New Insights Into Adult Stem Cell Regulation by Forsyth Scientists

Forsyth Institute scientists have discovered an important mechanism for controlling the behavior of adult stem cells.Research with the flatworm, planaria,…

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Low MX2 Gene Expression Found in Narcoleptic White Blood Cells

Susumu Tanaka, PhD, of the Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry in Japan, conducted the study from a pool of total ribonucleic acid (RNA) – a nucleic acid polymer…

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Orangutans' communication resembles a game of 'charades'

Captive orangutans intentionally modify or repeat hand or other signals selectively based on the success or failure of their first attempt, according to a…

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Active Genes Uncovered: New Insights into ALS Research

A University of California, Irvine neurologist is part of a national group of scientists who have identified the active genes in sporadic amyotrophic lateral…

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New Strategy Treats Allergic Disorders: VIB & Ghent University

VIB researchers associated with Ghent University, in collaboration with the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam, have shown that auto-antigens or…

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Scientists Advance Bio-Engineered Bladder Research

The research, highlighted in the quarterly magazine of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) this week, is looking at urothelial…

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Genetically Modified Lettuce Grows Insulin to Aid Diabetes

Capsules of insulin produced in genetically modified lettuce could hold the key to restoring the body’s ability to produce insulin and help millions of…

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New Pathway Found for Cell Size Regulation and Division

Organisms precisely regulate cell size to ensure that daughter cells have sufficient cellular material to thrive or to create specific cell types: a tiny sperm…

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New Study Identifies Risk Genes for Multiple Sclerosis

The first study, led by an international consortium of clinical scientists and genomics experts, incorporates the two largest collections of MS genetic…

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Glass Sponge Reefs Discovered Off Washington State

The discovery in Washington waters extends the range of reef-building glass sponges into open ocean. The sponge reefs could be important to the ecosystems on…

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Barn Owls’ Hearing Skills Inspire New Human Diagnosis Methods

The hearing precision that lets common barn owls find prey is helping researchers fine tune their quest to diagnose a variety of problems rooted in the human…

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