Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

NIH Lab Confirms Protocol to Reverse Type 1 Diabetes in Mice

New data published in the Nov. 24 issue of Science provide further support for a protocol to reverse type 1 diabetes in mice and new evidence that adult…

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Chemotherapy’s Temporary Impact on Brain Structures

Published in the January 1, 2007 issue of CANCER (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society,…

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Humpback Whales Share Brain Cells With Humans, Study Finds

A new study published online November 27, 2006 in The Anatomical Record, the official journal of the American Association of Anatomists,compared a humpback…

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FDA-Approved Antibiotic Developed Using Cloning Techniques

The rapid rise of antibiotic resistance poses a serious threat to human health, and demands new treatments effective against resistant pathogens. Fosfomycin is…

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Bio-Inspired Assembly of Nanoparticles: New Method Revealed

Chemists at Rice University have discovered how to assemble gold and silver nanoparticle building blocks into larger structures based on a novel method that…

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Giant Danio Fish Grows Uniquely: Insights from New Study

The study in the November issue of the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, finds that the giant danio, unlike…

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Innovative Quest for Better Breast Cancer Drugs Begins

The five-year project, which involves the University of Edinburgh and the Riken Genomic Research Centre in Japan, will initially look at why particular…

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NYU and Scripps Discover Key Enzyme for Diabetes Treatment

The enzyme GAPDH was previously unknown to be a factor in the development of diabetes in humans. It has also been discovered that the inhibition of GAPDH…

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TCD Researchers Explore Chemical Space for Breast Cancer Treatments

Estrogen and the estrogen receptor (ER)”Estrogen works by locking into the ER, causing a change to the shape of the receptor,” explains Dr Meegan. “This…

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Genetics a key factor in premature infants' devastating eye disease

“This is the first definitive study to show that genetic factors are a significant component of ROP, and to quantify the extent of that genetic contribution,”…

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Gene linked to aggressive 'wet' age-related macular degeneration

AMD causes light-sensitive cells in the retina to break down, resulting in progressive loss of central vision. Of the two forms of AMD, the “dry” is more…

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Turbidity’s Impact on Wine Aroma: Insights from New Research

This is the conclusion of Nerea Jiménez Moreno in her PhD thesis defended at the Public University of Navarre. The PhD is entitled, “Ageing of red wine with…

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Old Enzyme’s New Tricks: Insights from NRP Scientists

NRP scientists led by Professor Anne Osbourn at the John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK) in collaboration with IGER (Aberystwyth, UK) and the Institute of Plant…

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Inbiobank Launches: Advancing Stem Cell Research and Use

Inbiobank is a non profit-making bank of stem and primary cells the function of which is to produce and characterise such cells for their use in applied…

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Wheat gene may boost foods' nutrient content

Results from the study will be reported in the Nov. 24 issue of the journal Science.”Wheat is one of the world's major crops, providing approximately one-fifth…

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Downstate Researchers Target Multiple Sclerosis with Calpain Insights

Calpains are a family of proteolytic enzymes naturally found in the human body. Inappropriate activation of calpain is associated with a number of…

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