Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Prevotella Spp.: A Bacterium’s Role in Gut Health Insights

How does the bacterium Prevotella spp. influence inflammatory bowel diseases in a mouse model?

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Advancing Life Sciences with Biologically Relevant Simulations

Molecular dynamics simulations (MD) have become an ubiquitous tool in modern life sciences. In these simulations, the interactions between atoms and molecules…

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Swimming Robot Reveals New Insights Into Fish Locomotion

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems who are part of the Cyber Valley research consortium together with researchers from Harvard…

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Microneedling with Stem Cells: Healing Damaged Tissues

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent in that they naturally replenish the cell types that build our bone, cartilage and adipose tissues.

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Understanding Malaria Parasites: Syncing with Host Clocks

The mystery behind the molecular basis of how these parasites synch their rhythm in replication to the host's clock-driven rhythms has been solved.

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Researchers identify “hot spots” for developing lymphatic vessels

When an embryo develops, a wide variety of proteins and enzymes trigger a series of biochemical reactions. The development of the lymphatic vasculature is…

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How Parasitic Fungi Control Harmful Blue-Green Algae Blooms

Blue-green algal blooms are an increasing problem in waterbodies worldwide: Higher temperatures and growing nutrient loads lead to excessive growth of…

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Let’s rethink plastic!

Nano-functionalisation for smart and sustainable plastic surfaces

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New Research Network Tackles Grain Varieties Under Climate Stress

Cooperation partners in the new research network are the Technical University of Munich, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Bavarian State Institute…

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New Tool Simplifies Counting Nanoparticles at Rice University

Rice University scientists have developed an easy and affordable tool to count and characterize nanoparticles.

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DNA Loops: Organizing the Human Genome’s Complexity

With more than 3 billion base pairs, the human genome in each cell nucleus stretches to a physical length of two meters. How cells organize those vast amounts…

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Complex Chemistry Insights Into Earth’s Origins of Life

Chemists have long sought to understand the origins of life, with one popular model suggesting life began when simple RNA molecules capable of copying…

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Dresden Team Discovers Key Enzyme for Intestinal Health

Study results contribute to the understanding of intestinal regeneration and prevention of intestinal inflammation

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Biofriendly Materials in Drug Design for Neuro Disorders

The study, titled “Untangling the Potential of Carbon Quantum Dots in Neurodegenerative Disease,” was co-authored by Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Ph.D., and…

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Engineering Living Materials: New Techniques Unveiled

 · While various techniques such as 3D printers have been utilized for developing ELMs, these techniques are typically limited for static patterns and suffer…

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Gene Therapy Breakthrough: Restoring Vision and Hope

Humans rely dominantly on their eyesight. Losing vision means not being able to read, recognize faces or find objects. Macular degeneration is one of the major…

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