Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Origins of California Wild Radish Revealed by UCR

UC Riverside scientists studying the genetic makeup of wild radishes in California have determined that the California wild radish is descended from hybrids…

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Boosting Killer Cells: Enhancing Herceptin for Breast Cancer

The laboratory and animal study suggests that the substance interleukin 21 (IL-21) might improve the effectiveness of the drug Herceptin. The findings suggest…

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Boosting Killer Cells: Enhancing Herceptin for Breast Cancer

The laboratory and animal study suggests that the substance interleukin 21 (IL-21) might improve the effectiveness of the drug Herceptin. The findings suggest…

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Boosting Killer Cells: Enhancing Herceptin for Breast Cancer

The laboratory and animal study suggests that the substance interleukin 21 (IL-21) might improve the effectiveness of the drug Herceptin. The findings suggest…

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Aging Clock Discovery: BMAL1’s Role in Health Insights

Studying a strain of transgenic mice lacking the core circadian clock gene, Bmal1, Dr. Antoch and colleagues determined that BMAL1 also plays an important role…

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New Protein Complex Unravels DNA for Cell Survival Insight

An adult human consists of about 50,000 billion cells, 1% of which die and are replaced by cell division every day. In order to ensure cell survival and…

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New Protein Insights: Key to Bladder Cancer Spread and Treatment

“The fact that proepithelin doesn't appear to strongly promote cell proliferation, but instead promotes migration and invasion – two crucial steps leading to…

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Discovering Key Protein’s Role in Controlled Cell Death

Therefore, gaining better understanding of this controlled cell death is very important in the fight against deterioration diseases like dementia. In this…

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Understanding Calcium’s Role in Body Functionality

Calcium signals control almost every activity in the human body, from fertilization to cell death and everything between, including every beat of the heart….

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Fish Blood: A Sustainable New Source for Pet Food

The potential production of fish blood is about 12,000 metric tons in 2006, of which 3,000 tons are presently available for use. Salmon blood, for example,…

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Zero Grip Technology: New Breakthrough in Bacteria Resistance

In 2001, six research partners (the Martin Luther University of Halle, the German research institute iba, the University of Genova, SINTEF, the Dutch catheter…

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New Insights on Gene Silencing in Plants Uncovered

Craig Pikaard, Ph.D., Washington University professor of biology in Arts & Sciences and his collaborators have described the roles that eight proteins in…

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HIV Infection: Key Role of B Cells and Unique Protein Explained

HIV infection of T cells requires activation of a molecule on the surface of B cells, a finding that reveals yet another pathway the virus uses in its…

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Bacterial Secrets Revealed: Insights on Pseudomonas Syringae

Under study is the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae, better known as the disease agent of bacterial speck. The pathogen reared its speckled head in…

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Wild Meerkats Teach Pups Food Skills in Unique Way

University of Cambridge scientists have discovered that older meerkats teach pups how to obtain food by incrementally introducing dead, injured and then live…

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Gene Mutations in Rett Syndrome: New Findings in Males

In an international collaboration, researchers from the United States and Australia identified and evaluated four non-familial, sporadic occurrences of MECP2…

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