Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

New Insights: Blocking Cancer Cell Growth Without Cell Walls

A team from the Uppsala Branch of the global Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) has not only shown how the cell gets this timing right, but has also…

Life & Chemistry

Protein’s Role in Immune Response Could Boost HIV Research

In the July 28 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Roman Dziarski, Ph.D., and Dipika Gupta, Ph.D., propose that the proteins might be used to develop…

Life & Chemistry

Melanoma Cells Secrete Protein Essential for Embryo Formation

An article describing this research was published today in the advanced online issue of the journal Nature Medicine. The researchers identified the potent and…

Life & Chemistry

Food Timing Activates Brain Genes, Study Reveals Insights

By training mice to eat at a time when they normally wouldn't, the researchers found that food turns on body-clock genes in a particular area of the brain….

Life & Chemistry

Ocean Microbe Census Uncovers Rare Bacteria Diversity

A startling revelation about the number of different kinds of bacteria in the deep-sea raises fundamental new questions about microbial life and evolution in…

Life & Chemistry

Neural Foundations of Language in Ancient Primates Discovered

But now, research just published in the advanced online issue of Nature Neuroscience 1, found that Rhesus macaques when listening to other monkeys’ calls…

Life & Chemistry

Penn Researchers Reveal Eye-Brain Insights for AI Design

This line of scientific questioning points to ways in which neural systems compare to artificial ones, and can ultimately inform the design of artificial…

Life & Chemistry

Protein Switches Key Immune Response, Study Reveals Insights

A single protein can turn on and off a key component of the immune system by changing partners in an elegant genomic dance, said researchers at the University…

Life & Chemistry

Proteins as Parents: Discovering Molecular Springs in Tissues

So that we can move, and so that our heart beats, we need proteins with special mechanical properties, “molecular springs”, which give our tissues the…

Life & Chemistry

University Develops New Cancer Therapeutics Using Protein Insights

Dr Roger Barraclough, from the School of Biological Sciences, is working on a new protein which causes some cancer cells to spread around the body. This…

Life & Chemistry

New genetic model for Parkinson's disease

”The course of disease in these mice is strikingly similar to human disease”, says Dr. Lars Olson.In the mouse model generated by the research team, a gene…

Life & Chemistry

EPFL Unveils New Protein Expression Core Facility

Producing proteins is a time-consuming, painstaking process, particularly from mammalian cell lines, and the investment required in terms of time, expertise,…

Life & Chemistry

How Worker Ants Store Fat for Colony Survival

“Understanding the regulation of nutrient reserves, particularly fat storage, at the individual and colony levels is critical to understanding both the…

Life & Chemistry

UF Scientists Uncover Evolutionary Link Between Fins and Limbs

Performance on the dance floor may not always show it, but people are rarely born with two left feet. We have genes that instruct our arms and legs to grow in…

Life & Chemistry

Einstein researchers find 'key' to unlocking world's deadliest malaria parasite

These findings, published in the August issue of Nature Methods, “should substantially speed up research efforts to bring malaria under control,” says Dr….

Life & Chemistry

Identical Twins: Exploring Genetic Differences Explained

They sleep together, eat together, and most people find it impossible to tell them apart. Identical twins who grow up together share just about everything,…

Feedback