Clemson University chemist Ya-Ping Sun and his research team have developed such a countermeasure strategy to weaponized anthrax, a biological agent used by a…
Yet the graceful, sinuous profile of the DNA double helix is the result of random chemical reactions in a simmering, primordial stew. Just how nature arrived…
Monitoring troop movements could be made much easier with the introduction of a luminous chemical which works like a gigantic magic marker. German chemical…
Dr Adele Murrell has been awarded a grant from AICR (the Association for International Cancer Research) to study the strange behaviour of a gene called IGF2.She explains: “We know that if this gene is over-active in the embryo, it results in overgrowth and can cause a rare but distressing syndrome that can lead to certain childhood cancers. Over-activity of the gene has also been reported in many adult cancers, including breast and bowel cancer….
The collaboration, led by Professor Hugh Gurling at UCL and Professor Ole Mors at the University of Aarhus, first looked at bipolar cases in families living in…
The magazine looks at diet and metabolism, with David writing on the paradox of antioxidants, Susan Ozanne on “Are we what our mothers ate?”, Allan Sniderman…
The forests of Kilimanjaro are unusual for two reasons. One is that there is no bamboo zone, unlike the other East African mountains which have extensive…
The discovery is significant, because the protein, called myosin 5, is part of a large family of motor proteins involved in a wide range of important bodily…
The project research team is composed of scientists from nineteen universities and research centres from Europe, Canada, Japan, Israel and the United States.The project, chosen from amongst more than 400 entered for the annual competition of the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) of the United States Department of Energy’s Science Office, is one of just over 40 which have the go-ahead, one of the seven coordinated by a European body and the only one led by a Spanish person. …
Led by Dr J Oriol Sunyer, of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and formed by researchers from Philadelphia, St Louis and…
Naltrexone and acamprosate are drugs that are supposed to suppress the desire for a drink. The researcher investigated which patient characteristics were…
The discovery, now published in the “FASEB Journal” has crucial implications for the study and treatment of those neurodegenerative illnesses – such as…
In a paper published this week in Angewandte Chemie, Professor Steve Homans from Leeds’ Faculty of Biological Sciences explains his method for getting exactly…
Professor Virginia Walker and her colleagues at Queen’s University, Canada, have developed a technique to isolate bacteria which have properties to interact…
The life of a cell is all about growing and dividing at the right time. That is why the cell cycle is one of the most tightly regulated cellular processes. A…
Taking large doses of androgens, or steroids, is known to cause hyperexcitability, a highly aggressive nature, and suicidal tendencies. These behavioral…
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