Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Protein Biomarker Predicts Breast Cancer Survival Rates

The findings, by lead author Peggy Porter, M.D., of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in collaboration with colleagues from nine other institutions,…

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Chicken Blindness Gene May Unlock Secrets to Human Diseases

Biotechnologist Dr Doug Lester and PhD student Hemanth Tummala were searching for the genetic mutation that causes blindness in certain chickens, but their…

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Pioneering Paint Wipes Out MRSA on Surfaces, Study Finds

Tests by scientists at Sheffield Hallam University have proven that easy-on, an infection control coating, allows bacteria to be completely wiped off surfaces,…

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Young Scientists Win Competition with Innovative Slug Control

The young Rothamsted scientists walked away with prizes including £1,000 after impressing judges at the final of Biotechnology YES with their hypothetical…

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Inexpensive, Sustainable Production Method Developed by PhD Researcher

After just two years of PhD research, she will receive her doctorate degree based on this research subject on December 11. Maaike Kroon (25) is regarded as an…

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How Gene-Bending Proteins Recognize DNA Binding Sites

How does the protein recognize a particular binding site” Structural changes in both the protein and DNA, sometimes with the DNA within the complex kinked or…

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HIV-1’s Impact on Gut Immune Cells: New Insights Unveiled

In fact, most patients on the drug regimen do so well that, according to blood tests, their immune cells appear to return to pre-HIV levels. But two new…

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New Insights on Vanishing Beetle Horns and Their Functions

In this month's American Naturalist (Dec. 2006) and the Nov. 2006 issue of Evolution, Indiana University Bloomington scientists present an entirely new…

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Why do some queen bees eat their worker bee's eggs?

For some species, such as bumble bees, this is the source of many of the males in the species. But in others, like the honeybee, workers “police” each other –…

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Unlocking Fungal Secrets: Key Gene Discovered by Scientists

Scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and Duke University Medical Center have pinpointed a fungal gene that appears to play an important role in…

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Exploring Weighty Viruses: The Simplest Life Forms on Earth

Viruses are the simplest life forms on our planet, consisting of only DNA or RNA and a shell. After the prokaryotes (bacteria and archebacteria), viruses are…

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Interspecific Hunting: New Insights from the Red Sea

Over the past decade, this ladder has been challenged by claims of high intelligence and great social complexity in other animals. For example, spotted hyenas…

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Silica Particle Boosts Protein Life, Opens New Medical Frontiers

A unique breakthrough by researchers at Linköping University in Sweden creates new potential in medicine and biochemistry and at the same time provides a new…

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Wachsendes Interesse der Pharmaindustrie für Extremolyte

Immer mehr Pharmaunternehmen interessieren sich für Extremolyte. Der natürliche Wirkstoff, der aus Mikroorganismen gewonnen wird, findet seinen Einsatz überall…

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Plants, plasmids and possibilities — Methods permit functional gene studies in plants

Scientists also create modified plants to identify and characterize the functions of specific genes. The current issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols—released…

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Gene Therapy Breakthrough for Erectile Dysfunction in Trials

Lead author Arnold Melman, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Urology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore…

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