Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Eczema Gene Link Supported by New Global Findings

'It is tremendously gratifying that our discovery is being upheld by so many other groups around the world. This firmly establishes that a skin barrier defect…

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MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit Secures £14.9 Million Funding

The MRC Council has approved a recommendation from its Physiological Systems and Clinical Sciences Board to provide an increased budget of £14.9 million over…

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Parasitic Wasps Avoid Ladybird Feet to Protect Offspring

The researchers, supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), have found that to protect their offspring, adult wasps have…

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Turmeric: A Promising Spice in Colon Cancer Research

In the last few years, that tactic has proved productive for researchers investigating turmeric, a curry spice used for centuries in Indian traditional…

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UCI Scientists Uncover New Insights on Healthy Body Fat

Too much body fat may be a bad thing, but there is increasing evidence that too little fat also may have some surprisingly negative consequences.Researchers at…

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Mouse Strain with Gene Stutter Advances Leukemia Research

A study of the strain by its developers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center (OSUCCC) suggests that the genetic change comes early in the…

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A wolf in sheep’s clothing: plague bacteria reveal one of their virulence tricks

These bacteria insert into their host cells proteins and other virulence factors, which kill by — among other things — disrupting the cells' normal structure….

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Brain's action center is all talk

Neuroscience is tackling a problem that obsessed Hamlet: What is the difference in our minds between talk and action?Less than you would expect, an…

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Cardiologist's 'living chip' changes science of disease monitoring

But what if in the future a tiny device, one the size of a nickel or significantly smaller, could be implanted in the patient to monitor and detect…

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Exploring Innovations in Digestive Health: Insights from Dr. Brasseur

“We are predicting variables that we wish we could measure, but we cannot,” says Dr. James G. Brasseur, professor of mechanical engineering, bioengineering and…

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Cellular Traffic Backups Linked to Skeletal Malformations

In the Sept. 17 online issue of Nature Genetics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers report the identification of a mutation that causes severe…

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Genetic Insights Into Human Morning Lark Behavior

In an upcoming G&D paper, a team of German scientists presents a genetic basis for understanding human morning lark behavior. Dr. Achim Kramer (Charité…

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Can a spoonful of sugar treat cancer?

Dr Falconer, a Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry based in the Institute of Cancer Therapeutics at the University of Bradford explains: “On the surface of cancer…

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£30M Funding Boost for Systems Biology Research Initiatives

BBSRC and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) have committed at least £30M to a new Systems Approaches to Biological Research…

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Nanotechnology’s Future in Medicine: New Treatment Opportunities

Both organizations coincide in emphasising that nanotechnology may have direct applications in medicine by contributing to improvements in health and quality…

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Fatty Acids and Caveolin-1: Key Players in Liver Regeneration

The journal Science [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16973879&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum]…

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