Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Grafts Against Cancer: Key Discovery in Genomics Unveiled

A research team led by Prof. Claude Perreault, Université de Montréal, is announcing a major discovery in Genomics. This will generate a fundamental impact on…

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New Biomarker Test Predicts Outcomes for Bladder Cancer Patients

Once a patient undergoes surgery for the removal of their bladder and lymph nodes — the standard treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer — researchers…

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Can Lightning Spark the Origins of Life?

So far, it has been assumed that specific geological bodies are formed at the strike of lightning only if the lightning hits sedimentary rock or a cliff….

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Exploring Modular Structures in Early Metazoa Evolution

The first Metazoa animals possessed a modular structure, consisting of several identical individuals combined into a colony. The colony appeared due to…

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Breakthrough Discovery in Blood Pressure Gene Structure

Research by scientists at UCL (University College London) has clearly demonstrated for the first time the structure and function of a gene crucial to the…

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Self-assembling nanostructures of DNA — a biotechnologist's dream

Building structures as tiny as a few nanometers is a major problem with today's technology. This is an important hurdle, because really tiny things can be…

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New Marker Identifies Energy Centers in Nerve Cells

A protein that causes coral to glow is helping researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine to light up brain cells that are critical for the…

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Cloning Seaside Scents: Novel Bacteria from North Norfolk

The age-old mystery was unlocked thanks to some novel bacteria plucked from the North Norfolk coast.Prof Andrew Johnston and his team at UEA isolated this…

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New Structural Biology Facility Uses Synchrotron Radiation

The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) has awarded 8.8 Million Euro to the Hamburg Outstation of the European Molecular Biology…

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Hebrew University Launches Global Converging Sciences Center

The university is the first in the world to establish a center that will include cooperative research groups in the exact, biomedical sciences, as well as in…

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Penguins’ Huddling and Metabolism Adaptations for Cold Survival

A team of scientists that had already shown that emperor penguins who are free ranging in their colony spend about 50 percent of their time in dense huddles…

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New Compound Inhibits HIV Spread by 80% in Patients

A nucleic acid, 2-5AN6B inhibited HIV replication in white blood cells from a group of 18 HIV infected patients by up to 80 percent, regardless of the…

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Noise Echoes Transform Cell Communications Research

Dawei Hong, an assistant professor of computer science, Joseph Martin, a professor of biology, and William Saidel, an associate professor of biology, are…

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Scientists see DNA get 'sunburned' for the first time

Ohio State University chemists and their colleagues in Germany used a special technique to watch strands of DNA in the laboratory sustain damage in real time. They observed the most common chemical reaction among a family of reactions on the DNA molecule that are linked to sunburn, and discovered that this key reaction happens with astounding speed — in less than one picosecond, or one millionth of one millionth of a second….

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Genetic fingerprints identify brain tumors' origins

The finding adds a new layer of complexity to the quest to understand the causes of childhood brain cancers, according to senior author David H. Gutmann, M.D.,…

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Electrons Navigate Proteins Like City Commuters

It's often swiftest to take the subway, Beratan notes, but riders may sometimes elect to alter their route by exiting the train for a short cab ride or a walk…

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