Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

MicroRNAs: A New Approach to Limiting Cancer Metastasis

Cancers that have spread throughout the body, a process known as metastasis, are difficult, often impossible, to control. They are the leading cause of…

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Transparent PDMS Eggshell Advances Embryo Lab-on-a-Chip

However, an ideal embryo-on-a-chip has not yet been developed due to challenges in condensing so many life factors inside a conventional LOC.

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Innovation Unveiled: New Drug Target Against MRSA Discovered

Scientists at the University of Utah and the University of Georgia have uncovered a pharmacological target that could enable development of novel drugs against…

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Hydrogen Production Uncovered in Extreme Bacterium Discovery

Dr. Melanie Mormile, professor of biological sciences at Missouri S&T, and her team discovered the bacterium “Halanaerobium hydrogeninformans” in Soap Lake,…

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New Inheritance Mechanism Could Transform Evolution Research

For more than a century, scientists have understood the basics of inheritance: if good genes help parents survive and reproduce, the parents pass those genes…

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Whisker Tickling: New Insights Into Mouse Brain Activity

Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have succeeded in peering into the brains of live mice with such precision that they were able to see how the…

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New Technique Captures Real-Time 3D Diagnostic Images

This research, recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, makes it possible to follow the development of living organisms up to three millimetres…

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How One Species Embraced a Vegetarian Diet

For most of us, switching to a vegetarian diet might be a matter of a New Year's resolution and a fair amount of willpower, but for an entire species, it's a…

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Structure of world's largest single cell is reflected at the molecular level

“Caulerpa is a unique organism,” said Chitwood. “It's a member of the green algae, which are plants. Remarkably, it's a single cell that can grow to a length…

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Mastering Balance: New Insights on Walking on Ice

Walking across an icy parking lot in winter—and remaining upright—takes intense concentration. But a new discovery suggests that much of the balancing act that…

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Probiotic Innovation Shows Promise for Diabetes Treatment

In the study, published Jan. 27 in the journal Diabetes, the researchers engineered a strain of lactobacillus, a human probiotic common in the gut, to secrete…

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Monarch Butterflies Face Disease Amid Lost Migration Paths

Human activities are disrupting the migration patterns of many species, including monarch butterflies. Some monarchs have stopped migrating to their…

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Researchers Create Dual Biofuels from Single Algae Source

The researchers, led by Greg O'Neil of Western Washington University and Chris Reddy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, exploited an unusual and untapped…

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Stem Cells Unlock New Possibilities for Hair Regeneration

In a new study from Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), researchers have used human pluripotent stem cells to generate new hair. The…

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Innovative Programmed Synthesis of Multi-Substituted Benzene

Professor Kenichiro Itami, Junichiro Yamaguchi, Yasutomo Segawa and Shin Suzuki at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University and…

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How Damaged DNA Impacts Repair Proteins’ Functionality

Usually, the repair protein zips along quickly, says Anjum Ansari, UIC professor of physics and co-principal investigator on the study, published this month in…

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