Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Antibiotic Use in Acute Care: Insights from NSW DPI Research

NSW Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) Immunology & Molecular Diagnostic Research Unit Team Leader, Dr James Chin, says it is commonly believed that…

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MIT model could predict cells' response to drugs Work could lead to targeted therapies

Models based on this approach could help doctors make better treatment choices for individual patients, who often respond differently to the same drug, and…

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Learning to Evolve: Insights from Avian Ancestors

According to a new theory by Dr Stone of Sheffield University, skills such as flying are easy to refine because the innate ability of today's birds depends…

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Hereditary ALS Tied to Low Electric Charge in Cells

In an article in the scientific journal The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Mikael Oliveberg, professor of biochemistry at Stockholm University in Sweden,…

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New Research Links Anti-Viral Protein to Lupus Risk

Our immune system is able to defeat disease-causing viruses and bacteria every day using chemical weapons, like interferon-alpha, that have been honed over…

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Mouse Genome Catalog Unveils Insights on Environmental Diseases

The body of data is now publicly available in a catalog of genetic variants, which displays the data as a mouse haplotype map, a tool that separates…

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Genetic Switch Triggers Self-Destruction of Cancer in Mice

The surprising possibility that a cell's own natural mechanism for ensuring its mortality could be used to vanquish tumors opens the door to a new approach to…

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First Mouse Model for Studying Schizophrenia Innovations

In contrast to current animal studies that rely on drugs that can only mimic the manifestations of schizophrenia, such as delusions, mood changes and paranoia,…

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Zebrafish: It's not your parents' lab rat

Zebrafish cost about a dollar at the pet store. They grow from eggs to hunting their own food in three days. Adults can lay up to 500 eggs at once… and you…

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Instant Steam Technology Targets MRSA Effectively

‘The value of instant steam lies in creating truly portable steam that can be generated intermittently on demand,’ says Dave Wardle, business development…

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Nature’s weapon against nerve agents

The US military is funding a three-year study to evaluate the effectiveness of the enzyme, known as GOT, in protecting animals against the damaging cognitive…

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New Brake on Cellular Energy Production Discovered

Mitochondria release energy through a process known as cellular respiration – a chemical process inside each mitochondrion that results in the production of…

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Nottingham Biosciences Secures £1M for Innovative Advancements

The investment, under the Translation Award programme, will help Nottingham-based RegenTec Ltd to develop commercial products in the rapidly-developing field…

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Stem Cells Offer New Hope for Heart Attack Recovery

The research, funded with a grant of £95,000 the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), is looking at the process that turns a stem…

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Discovering Metagenomics: Secrets of Deep Microbial Analysis

Metagenomics is the large-scale genomic analysis of microbes recovered from environmental samples as opposed to laboratory-grown organisms which represent only…

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Genetic Mutations Linked to Lupus: Key Research Findings

“This research is a huge leap toward understanding the cause of lupus and related autoimmune diseases,” said Fred Perrino, Ph.D., a co-author on the paper and…

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