Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Elsevier Launches Phytochemistry Letters With PSE Collaboration

Articles, of 3-4 pages in length, will be reviewed within two weeks of submission, with accepted papers published online within one week. Dr Simon Gibbons from…

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EMPRO Launches Phase One Clinical Trials in the UK

The clinical trials to test the safety of the formulation will be conducted in the UK on a group of 46 women (one-third treated with a high-dose of antibodies,…

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Scientists uncover workings of bacterial invisibility cloak

An international research team led by scientists from the University of St Andrews has discovered how bacteria are able to cover their surface under a cloak of…

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Tree Frog Adhesion: Rethinking Right Angles in Nature

Conversely when walking or jumping they can detach their toe pads easily. Researchers from the University of Glasgow will present insights into how this…

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It’s never too late to get it back! Ageing interrupted.

They are using this knowledge to establish a novel screening technique to find drugs which mimic this longevity effect. “Right now, there are no authentic…

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Silent Research Vessels: Impact on Fish Stock Surveys

The aim is to avoid scaring off fish and thus biasing results from stock abundance surveys. However, comparative studies carried out by IMR show that the…

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Making no bones about it — digestion in Burmese pythons

Dr Jean-Hervé Lignot (Louis Pasteur University) and Dr Robert K. Pope (Indiana University South Bend) will talk about the implications this has on the way…

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Monitoring poisons in the environment — a woolly matter

Significant correlations were found between the amount of copper and lead found in washed wool from sheep and in local streams. Median copper concentration in…

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Breakthrough Discovery: Ammonia’s Role in Blood Health

Thousands of people with liver and kidney disease die every year from too much ammonia in their blood, and scientists from the United States and Japan have…

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Danish Researchers Collaborate to Solve Virus Puzzle

The research is a collaboration between molecular biologists and physicists. ”The molecular biologists have knowledge of how the cell functions and of the…

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NYU Scientists Uncover Gene Roles in Species Development

The findings, which were discovered by researchers in Professor Claude Desplan’s and Steve Small’s laboratories in NYU’s Center for Developmental Genetics,…

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Titanium dioxide — It slices, it dices …

Because most proteins are very large, complex molecules made up of hundreds or thousands of amino acids, they usually must be cut up into more manageable…

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Biologists call for better choice of model organisms in ‘evo-devo’

The subject of evo-devo, which became established almost a decade ago, is particularly dependent on the six main model organisms that have been inherited from…

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‘The eyes have it’ — autism research yields surprising results

In findings that contradict previous studies, psychologists found that autistic children can ‘read’ a stranger’s mental state based on that person’s eyes….

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Surrey Scientists Uncover Biological Weapon Traces in Blood Tests

The cause of the attack was ascertained through blood tests of the victims, but that was only possible once they were already infected. Today we are all more…

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For Clean Air

In addition to nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides, many volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air contribute to smog and high ozone levels, as well as…

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