Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Ancient Gene Boosts Immune System Reset by 500 Million Years

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI-IE) in Freiburg re-activated expression of an ancient gene, which is not normally…

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Harnessing Solar Fuels: Nature’s Solution for Energy Supply

Society’s energy supply problems could be solved in the future using a model adopted from nature. During photosynthesis, plants, algae and some species of…

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Blocking Plant Hormones: Insights Into Plant Metabolism

Researchers trying to get new information about the metabolism of plants can switch off individual genes and study the resulting changes. However, Erich…

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Moving Single Cells Around — Accurately and Cheaply

“Studying single cells and their unique functions has become a frontier in current biomedical research,” said nanomedicine department. faculty member Lidong…

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How Lizards Regenerate Their Tails: Researchers Discover Genetic ‘Recipe’

By understanding the secret of how lizards regenerate their tails, researchers may be able to develop ways to stimulate the regeneration of limbs in humans….

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New Biomarker Linked to Aggressive Breast Cancer Discovered

Two Northwestern University scientists have identified a biomarker strongly associated with basal-like breast cancer, a highly aggressive carcinoma that is…

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The world’s first bat net for migrating bats is launched in Latvia

The trap was built by Latvian and German biologists and designed to capture bats en route when migrating along the shore of the Baltic sea to central and…

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Innate Lymphoid Cells Boost T Cell Responses, Study Finds

A research group from the Department of Biomedicine at the University and the University Children’s Hospital of Basel now discovered that innate lymphoid cells…

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Natural Killer Cells Target Pediatric Leukemia Effectively

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common cancer of childhood. This disease hinders the development of healthy blood cells while cancer cells…

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Understanding Circadian Clocks: Insights Into Our Internal Rhythm

The internal body clocks, called circadian clocks, regulate the daily “rhythms” of many bodily functions, from waking and sleeping to body temperature and…

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Critical Proteins for Wound Healing Identified in Mice

Mice missing two important proteins of the vascular system develop normally and appear healthy in adulthood, as long as they don’t become injured. If they do,…

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Mapping Brain Artery Pulse: New Noninvasive Imaging Technique

Researchers at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new technique that can noninvasively image the pulse…

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Device Tracks Tumor Metastasis Progression in New Study

In their report published in Nature Materials, the investigators describe an stands for epithelial-mesenchymal transition, a fundamental change in cellular…

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Zombie ant fungi manipulate hosts to die on the 'doorstep' of the colony

Previous research shows that Ophiocordyceps camponoti-rufipedis, known as the “zombie ant fungus,” controls the behavior of carpenter ant workers — Camponotus…

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Discover the Combined Nanoscopy Technique for Cell Monitoring

Molecular processes in living cells can best be monitored by high-resolution microscopy techniques. Although groundbreaking technical innovations in the field…

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Gene Disruption Linked to Mental Disorders and Neural Connections

Researchers have long suspected that major mental disorders are genetically-rooted diseases of synapses – the connections between neurons. Now, investigators…

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