Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Marine Pest Insights: Advancements in Anti-Fouling and Biomedicine

The team’s findings, published in Nature Communications, examined the last larval stage of barnacles that attaches to a wide variety of surfaces using highly…

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Saving Seeds the Right Way Can Save the World's Plants

For decades, these seed collections have been guided by simple models that offer a one-size-fits-all approach for how many seeds to gather, such as…

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Memory Relies on Astrocytes, the Brain's Lesser Known Cells

When you’re expecting something—like the meal you’ve ordered at a restaurant—or when something captures your interest, unique electrical rhythms sweep through…

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Blood Test for Suicide Risk: New Findings from Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins researchers say they have discovered a chemical alteration in a single human gene linked to stress reactions that, if confirmed in larger…

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Chinese Mosquitoes Found in Baltic Amber Analysis

This is what amber, which was found in East China showed, in whose analysis the University of Bonn is currently participating. The fossil resin clumps give…

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Exploring Underwater Elephants: New Insights from Research

Using direct observation, animal tracking and computer simulation, McCauley, an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine…

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Research may explain how foremost anticancer 'guardian' protein learned to switch sides

Called p53, this protein has been called “the guardian of the genome.” It normally comes to the fore when healthy cells sense damage to their DNA caused by…

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Efficient Tool for Protein Tagging: A New Research Method

DNA linked to proteins – including antibodies – provides a strong partnership that can be used in diagnostic techniques, nanotechnology and other disciplines….

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New DNA Insights Trace Cattle History in Europe

The modern cattle is the domesticated descendant of the aurochs, a wild species that became extinct in the 17th century. The aurochs' domestication already…

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New Biomarker Discovery for Alzheimer’s Drug Development

The discovery of this novel genetic association may lead to new drug treatment options that target PLXNA4 specifically. These findings appear in the Annals of…

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Scripps Florida scientists find genetic mutations linked to salivary gland tumors

Research conducted at the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has discovered links between a set of genes known to promote tumor growth and…

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Scissoring the lipids

The method is now being developed to explore the possibility of creating a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine.

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How Sweet It Is: New Tool for Characterizing Plant Sugar Transporters Developed at Joint BioEnergy Institute

“Our unique assay enabled us to analyze nucleotide sugar transporter activities in Arabidopsis and characterize a family of six nucleotide sugar transporters…

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Cell's Recycling Center Implicated in Division Decisions

Most cells do not divide unless there is enough oxygen present to support their offspring, but certain cancer cells and other cell types circumvent this rule.

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Vanderbilt Study Examines Bacteria’s Ability to Fight Obesity

Bacteria that produce a therapeutic compound in the gut inhibit weight gain, insulin resistance and other adverse effects of a high-fat diet in mice,…

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Scientists test a Nanoparticle “Alarm Clock” to Awaken Immune Systems Put to Sleep by Cancer

One pioneering approach, discussed in a review article published this week in WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology, uses nanoparticles to jumpstart the…

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