Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Stem Cell Study Reveals New Insights in Biology

The groundbreaking findings from the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) also demonstrate that the precise amount of protein…

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UNC Researchers Develop Tool to Study Metastasis Mysteries

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have devised a new biochemical technique that will allow them and other scientists to delve much deeper than ever…

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Understanding Bacterial Secretion Systems and Antibiotic Resistance

The study, published today in Nature, reveals the mechanism of bacterial type IV secretion, which bacteria use to move substances across their cell wall. As…

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Discover a New Tool for Visualizing Transcriptomes in Bioinformatics

Next-generation sequencing has revolutionized functional genomics, with protocols such as RNA-seq, ChIP-seq and CAGE being used widely around the world.

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Farm Salmon Threaten Wild Gene Pools: Key Findings Unveiled

Findings published today reveal that, while farmed salmon are genetically different to their wild counterparts, they are just as fertile. This is important…

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Enhancing Cancer Treatment by Targeting Tubulin Protein

Tubulin, the building-block protein of cellular microtubules, is a well-validated cancer drug target: Disrupting tubulin polymerization affects cytoskeletal…

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Notre Dame Chemists Unveil New Class of Antibiotics

Their research is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in an article titled “Discovery of a New Class of Non-beta-lactam Inhibitors of…

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Teen Elephant Mothers: Shorter Lifespan, Larger Families Found

Experts from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences studied the reproductive lives of 416 Asian elephant mothers in Myanmar, Burma, and found…

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Enzyme Regulates Transport of Genomic Building Blocks

Histone proteins are key building blocks of this architecture and contain crucial information that regulates our genes. Danish researchers show how an enzyme…

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Maize Plus Bacteria: Effective Solution for Copper Contamination

He has also shed light on the biochemical pathways that allow plants and bacteria to clean up some of the worst soils on the planet while increasing their…

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Traffic-Related Air Pollution’s Impact on Heart Health

“Our goal was to identify modules, or functional units, which are critical to the performance of the biochemical pathways that govern a host of biological…

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Offshore Dispersant Data: Impact on Marine Wildlife Safety

While this process helps reduce the likelihood of oil exposure to marine wildlife such as seabirds and marine mammals, aquatic toxicity on marine communities…

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Birds’ Unique Sleep Patterns: Insights from the Avian Brain

Birds also engage in SWS, but they lack this particular brain structure. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany have…

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Genetic Techniques Shaping the Future of Dental Care

In a new paper published in the Australian Dental Journal, researchers from the University of Adelaide's School of Dentistry have written about the current and…

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Staphylococcus Cells on Nanostructures: New Infection Insights

The bacterium Staphylococcus Aureus (S. aureus) is a common source of infections that occur after surgeries involving prosthetic joints and artificial heart…

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Brandeis Researchers Uncover Key Structure in Heart Cells

Brandeis University researchers have unlocked a controversial structure in heart cells responsible for regulating heart contractions.

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