Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Golden Eagle Vision and Smell Unveiled

Their study calls into question long-held assumptions about golden eagle vision, indicating that the raptors may not be as sensitive to ultraviolet light as…

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Collagen Innovations: Healing Knee Cartilage Damage Effectively

Five million people suffer cartilage damage to the knee every year in Germany. Cartilage injuries are not only painful; they can lead to osteoarthritis decades…

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Gel Filled Filter—More than a Pore

Filtration using membrane filters is one of the most commonly used separation techniques. Modern developments are aimed at membranes with tailored separation…

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Antibiotics from Mangroves: Unlocking Nature’s Hidden Potential

The mangrove ecosystem is known as a highly productive habitat for isolating actinomycetes, which has the potential of producing biologically active secondary…

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New Gene Linked to Early Infantile Epilepsy Discovered

Epileptic encephalopathies are severe disorders which occur even in babies. They are accompanied by a disturbed maturation of the brain as well as by an…

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Rural microbes could boost city dwellers' health

The article, published in the journal Clinical & Experimental Immunology, argues that people living in urban centers who have less access to green spaces may…

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Identifying Patterns in Viral Infections: Key Insights

When viruses infect cells, they take control of cellular metabolism and hijack cellular resources for the production of viral proteins. This process is…

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Copper Nanowires: A Breakthrough for Next-Gen Solar Cells

Banerjee, assistant professor of materials science and an expert in working with nanomaterials, Fei Wu, graduate research assistant, and Yoon Myung, PhD, a…

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Protein Expression Boosts Heart Health Insights at Baylor

Using mouse models, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have now been able to categorize the alternative splicing (the process in which genes code…

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Discovering Chili Pepper’s Origins in Latin America

Plenty of other world cuisines rely on it too, from China to India to Thailand. But Latin America, researchers have confirmed, is where it started. 

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Loss of memory in Alzheimer's mice models reversed through gene therapy

Alzheimer's disease is the first cause of dementia and affects some 400,000 people in Spain alone. However, no effective cure has yet been found. One of the…

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Ravens Show Remarkable Social Intelligence in Relationships

From a cognitive perspective, understanding one's own relationships to others is a key ability in daily social life (“knowing who is nice or not”). Yet,…

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Cells’ Trash Removal: The Key to Health and Efficiency

To keep themselves neat, tidy and above all healthy, cells rely on a variety of recycling and trash removal systems. If it weren't for these systems, cells…

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New Molecule Boosts Nerve Growth After Injury

Dr. Doug Zochodne and his team have discovered a key molecule that directly regulates nerve cell growth in the damaged nervous system. His study was published…

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Cow Manure Reveals New Antibiotic Resistance Genes

The findings, reported in mBio® the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, hints that cow manure is a potential source of new…

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The malaria pathogen’s cellular skeleton under a super-microscope

The tropical disease malaria is caused by the Plasmodium parasite. For its survival and propagation, Plasmodium requires a protein called actin. Scientists of…

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