Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

New Arsenic Compounds Found in Herring Caviar at Graz University

When looking for arsenic compounds in the membranes of marine organisms, the scientists in Graz focussed on fish eggs because they have a particularly high…

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Scientists Discover Gene to Combat Malaria in Mosquitoes

A group of scientists, including one from the University of California, Riverside, have discovered a long-hypothesized male determining gene in the mosquito…

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Scientists Decode Bacterial Enzyme to Combat Hospital Infections

So-called hospital germs are a big worry for physicians and hygiene specialists as these bacteria can spell danger for people with a weakened immune system….

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Magnesium Treatment Aids Healing in Genetic Coagulation Disorders

A low platelet count (thrombocytopenia) prevents wound healing. People with a coagulation disorder can lose too much blood during otherwise harmless gum…

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Key Signaling Molecule β-Arrestin Uncovered in Cell Communication

International scientists led by Carsten Hoffmann and Martin Lohse of the University Würzburg, Germany, identified for the first timeβ-Arrestin as an…

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New Reaction Creates Versatile Chiral Building Blocks

Researchers in the Doyle lab at Princeton have developed a direct cross-coupling reaction to produce nitrogen-containing compounds called 1,2-dihydropyridines,…

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Unlocking Gene Expression: The Key to Protein Production

Your DNA governs more than just what color your eyes are and whether you can curl your tongue. Your genes contain instructions for making all your proteins,…

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Microfluidic Devices Rotate Cells and Organisms with Precision

The research, published today in Nature Communications, was led by Tony Jun Huang, professor of engineering science and mechanics and Huck Distinguished Chair…

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Magnetic Forces Control Neurons: Insights on Glucose Metabolism

Jeffrey Friedman, Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, and colleagues successfully employed this system to study the…

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Modeling to save a rare plant

Human activities continue to expand. At the same time, an increasing number of plants face habitat loss and fragmentation. In fact, more than 700 plants are…

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Cellular “Light Switch” Analysed Using Neutron Scattering

LOV proteins are very popular with molecular biologists; with their help, it is possible to turn biological processes on and off almost at the flick of a…

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Marine bacteria are essential for coral reef health

An entire reef habitat examined

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Immunoproteasome Inhibits Healing Function of Macrophages

The macrophages recognize and eliminate foreign materials and pathogens and alert the immune system to invaders by sending out numerous inflammatory signals….

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Genomes of chimpanzee parasite species reveal evolution of human malaria

An international team led by Beatrice Hahn, MD, a professor of Medicine and Microbiology from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of…

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Calcium waves in the brain alleviate depressive behavior in mice

Researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have discovered that the benefits of stimulating the brain with direct current come from its effects…

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Reconstructing folding funnels from experimental data to uncover proteins' inner life

“This work lays the foundations to recover the protein folding landscapes directly from experimental data, providing a route to new understanding and rational…

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