Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Toxoplasma Gondii Published in Major Journals

Their findings about Toxoplasma gondii and toxoplasmosis were published recently in three major scientific journals. Nature published a paper Dec. 20 in its…

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Squirrels winning at outwitting trees' survival strategy

In the Dec. 22 edition of Science, Andrew McAdam, an assistant professor of fisheries and wildlife at Michigan State University, outlines how red squirrels…

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Mammals Can Smell Underwater, New Research Reveals

The results of the research by Vanderbilt’s Kenneth Catania, assistant professor of biology, were reported Dec. 21 in the science journal Nature. He became…

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New Nerve Cell Growth Discovered in Diseased Brains

Until the middle of the 1990s researchers believed that new nerve cells could not be generated in the adult brain. Then it was found to be possible, and that…

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RNA Mechanism Breakthrough: Key Enzyme Discovery Unveiled

And now, while studying the mechanism behind RNAi researchers at Oxford and Helsinki University have discovered that the functional core of a key enzyme…

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Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Metastatic Cancer Treatment

Patients with advanced cancer that has spread to many different sites often do not have many treatment options, since they would be unable to tolerate the…

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Laser Technology Reveals Secrets of Stomata Function

What you do is sometimes determined by what your neighbours do. Scientists believe that this extends to stomatal behaviour. Stomata are pores placed at the…

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Oxymetazoline’s Anti-Inflammatory Action in Nasal Sprays Explained

The GSF experts have now elucidated the exact mechanism of an anti-inflammatory effect. This is an important contribution by the GSF to the transfer of…

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Tuberculosis Bacillus Hides in Adipose Cells, Study Finds

A team from the Institut Pasteur has recently shown that the tuberculosis bacillus hides from the immune system in its host's fat cells. This formidable…

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Mayo Researcher Uncovers New Target for Mosquito Pesticides

Yuan-Ping Pang, Ph.D., a chemist and expert in computer-aided molecular design at Mayo Clinic, identified two unique amino acid residues called cysteine (286)…

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Wolves Show Unexpected Genetic Diversity in Breeding Population

The results show that it is the most genetically variable wolf individuals that are recruited into the breeding population. An important consequence of this…

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Epigenetic Drugs Show Promise for Breast Cancer Treatment

The knowledge on the molecular bases of cancer generated during the last decades has been successfully translated into small but significant gains in overall…

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Gibbons’ Unique Song: A Natural Defense Against Predators

The primatologists at the University of St Andrews discovered that wild gibbons in Thailand have developed a unique song as a natural defence to predators….

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Batfish Saves Coral Reef from Seaweed Threat

With the dramatic flair of comic-book superhero Batman, a batfish has saved a coral reef that was being choked to death by seaweed – although the fish was…

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New Biomarkers Enhance Cardiovascular Risk Prediction

In the study, scientists followed 3209 participants in the Framingham Heart Study for 10 years and measured 10 of the most promising ‘novel’ biomarkers for…

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Single Protein Influences Severity of Toxoplasma Infections

Now, a team of Stanford University School of Medicine researchers, led by John Boothroyd, PhD, has shown for the first time how Toxoplasma manages to be so…

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