Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Global Cooperation in Neuroscience: Advancing Research Together

Those challenges can only be answered by investing in high-quality, international research in the field. NEURO, the Research Programme on Neuroscience…

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Parental genes do what’s best for baby

Biologists at The University of Manchester say the prevailing view that maternal and paternal genes compete for supremacy in their unborn offspring fails to…

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Pure Carbon Nanotubes Excel in First In Vivo Testing

In the first experiments of their kind, researchers at Rice University and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have determined that carbon…

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Ancient Predator’s Bite Rivals Alligators and T. Rex

It could bite a shark in two. It might have been the first “king of the beasts.” And it could teach scientists a lot about humans, because it is in the sister…

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How Seed Dispersal Shapes Rainforest Tree Distribution

The apple might not fall far from the tree, but new research shows that how it falls might be what is most important in determining tree distribution across a…

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Scientists Revive Inactive Enzymes Using Silica Honeycombs

Inactive enzymes entombed in tiny honeycomb-shaped holes in silica can spring to life, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National…

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International Gene Screen for ALS Makes Significant Progress

The largest-scale search for genes that underlie sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common form of the disease, has crossed its first…

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MIT Chemist Explores Electron Behavior and Its Implications

Troy Van Voorhis likes to watch how things work. This natural curiosity led to his current research on the behavior of electrons and how they function in…

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Female Chimpanzees Unite Against Male Aggression: Study Insights

In 2003 and 2004, Dr Newton-Fisher studied a community of eight adult male and 21 adult female East African chimpanzees in Budongo Forest, Uganda. He observed…

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A stunning new look at déjà vu

Traditionally it was thought images from one eye were delayed, arriving in the brain microseconds after images from the other eye – causing a sensation that…

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New Light-Based Method Detects Antibiotic Resistance Mutations

Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and the Universities of Heidelberg and Bielefeld, Germany, have…

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Signaling for Cartilage: New Insights from Stem Cell Research

Skeletons are made of bone and cartilage cells that are differentiated from the same multipotent stem cell, said Dr. Brendan Lee, associate professor of…

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UNC Scientists Uncover How Dynein Powers Cellular Movement

The structural model helps solve a scientific mystery: how the protein dynein fuels itself to perform cellular functions vital to life. These functions include…

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Aging Gene Linked to Prostate Cancer Protection Uncovered

The researchers, led by Kimmel Cancer Center director Richard Pestell, M.D., Ph.D., hope the newly found connection will aid in better understanding the…

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'Border Reiver' families to spill their blood for genetics research

Newcastle University researchers are seeking people with 'Border Reiver' surnames, like Armstrong, Fenwick, Burn or Robson, to donate blood samples for a…

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CiteXplore: Bridging Biomedical Literature and Data Seamlessly

Biological researchers require two crucial sources of information: scientific literature published in peer-reviewed journals and databases storing key…

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