Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

UGA Researchers Enhance Chemotherapy with Nanoparticles

Cisplatin may be used to treat a variety of cancers, but it is most commonly prescribed for cancer of the bladder, ovaries, cervix, testicles and lung. It is…

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New Insights Into Intestinal Health: What Researchers Discovered

 

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New Genetic Pathway Revealed in Plants’ CO2 Response

In a paper published in this week’s early online edition of Nature, they report the discovery of a new genetic pathway in plants, made up of four genes from…

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DNA Origami Nano-Tool Offers Key Insights Into Cancer Research

This is important knowledge in itself – but just as important is how this study, which is published in the highly respected journal Nature Methods, was…

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Parkinson‘s disease: genetic defect triggers multiple damages in neurons

In particular, genetic variants in a gene referred to as GBA1 (glucocerebrosidase) are associated to an increased risk for Parkinson’s. Researchers of the…

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New Research Unit Targets Dangerous Hospital Germs in Frankfurt

A research unit, approved by the German Research Foundation, under the leadership of researchers based in Frankfurt, has made it their goal to throw light on…

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Gene Therapy Boosts Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Regeneration

The retina and optic nerve are part of the CNS and this system is much used in experiments designed to test new ways of promoting regeneration after injury.

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Pseudogenes: Unlocking New Insights into Biomarkers

Dysfunctional, unloved and seemingly of little use, these poor-cousin relatives of genes have lost their protein-coding abilities. They contain material not…

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Blocking cells' movement to stop the spread of cancer

Scientists discovered that cells can change into an invasive, liquid-like state to readily navigate the narrow channels in our body. This transformation is…

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BGI Unveils High-Quality Gene Catalog for Gut Microbiome

While the roughly 20,000 genes in the human genome have been available for over a decade, the gene catalog of the microbiome, our much larger “other genome”,…

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First Cancer Immunotherapy for Dogs Launches Successful Trials

A very successful form of therapy by which antibodies inhibit tumor growth has not been available for animals so far. Scientists at the inter-university…

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Knots on DNA: Physicists Explore Innovative Position Swapping

Physicists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Graduate School of Excellence “Materials Science in Mainz” (MAINZ) have been able with the aid…

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Cellular Defense: Repairing DNA-Protein Crosslinks Explained

Very special DNA lesions are DNA-protein crosslinks (DPCs) – proteins covalently linked to DNA. So far hardly anything was known about repair mechanisms…

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New Insights into Living Cell Signaling for Treatment Advances

A breakthrough discovery into how living cells process and respond to chemical information could help advance the development of treatments for a large number…

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New Insights Into Malaria: Understanding an Old Pathogen

According to current estimates, there are more than 200 million people worldwide suffering from malaria, and roughly one million die each year from this…

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Sweet Genes: New Link Between Metabolism and Regulation

A research team at the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta have discovered a new way by which metabolism is linked to the regulation…

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