Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Study Explores Deep Sea Vents as Origin of Life

Recent research by geochemists Eoghan Reeves, Jeff Seewald, and Jill McDermott at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is the first to test a…

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Tiny Step Edges: Advancing Surface Science with TiO2

It can be found in toothpaste, solar cells, and it is useful for chemical catalysts: titanium dioxide (TiO2) is an extremely versatile material. Alhough it is…

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Polysaccharides from Angelica Sinensis Protect Neurons from Damage

Recent studies have shown that extracts of Angelica sinensis have antioxidative and neuroprotective effects.

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Antimicrobial Soaps Linked to Bacteria Buildup in Noses

Researchers at the University of Michigan report their findings this week in a study published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society…

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Longer Catch-and-Release Time Risks Bass Nests to Predators

Recent research at the University of Illinois found that catch-and-release angling could give bass predators the perfect opportunity to consume the young. In…

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Next-Generation Glaucoma Therapies Show Great Promise

Elevated eye pressure in glaucoma develops due to abnormal functioning of the trabecular meshwork (TM) causing intraocular fluid to back up. Next-generation…

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Genetic Links: Amphetamine Preference May Lower Schizophrenia Risk

“Some of the variants that make you like amphetamine also appear to make you less likely to develop schizophrenia and ADHD,” said study leader Abraham Palmer,…

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New Standard for Tissue Analysis: Insights from Patient Samples

A new way of preparing patient tissue for analyses might soon become the new standard. This is what researchers of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research…

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Movies Synchronize Brains: A Breakthrough in Neuroimaging

Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have succeeded in developing a method fast enough to observe immediate changes in the function of the brain even…

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Long Non-Coding RNAs: New Insights Into Their Conventional Roles

Then came the discovery of small RNAs that opened up whole new areas of research. Now researchers have come full circle and predicted that some long non-coding…

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Loneliness Affects DNA Repair: Insights from Parrot Telomeres

They found that the telomere lengths of single parrots were shorter than those housed with a companion parrot, which supports the hypothesis that social stress…

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Green Tea Extract Enhances Cognitive Function, Study Finds

Now, researchers at the University of Basel are reporting first evidence that green tea extract enhances the cognitive functions, in particular the working…

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New Insights Into How Anti-Diabetic Drugs Work

Scientists thought they basically knew how the most common drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes worked, but a new study from the Florida campus of The Scripps…

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Genetic Programming Advances: Enhancing Predictive Modeling Insights

The doctoral thesis, Enhancing Genetic Programming for Predictive Modeling, is about machine learning, more specifically predictive modeling, a field of…

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Freshwater Turtle Crosses Aegean Sea: A Remarkable Journey

Mauremys rivulata is a turtle, no more than 24 centimetres in size, which is widely distributed in lakes and streams in the region of the Eastern…

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Light-Based Innovation to Ease Anxiety Through Serotonin Receptors

Receptors for the messenger molecule serotonin can be modified in such a way that they can be activated by light. Together with colleagues, neuroscientists…

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