Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Toxic Breath: Nature’s Secret to Repelling Spiders

Caterpillars use different strategies to protect themselves from their enemies; many are camouflaged, while others use their bright colors as warning signals,…

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Discovery of New Cell Mechanism to Halt Breast Cancer Spread

“Genetic mutations do not drive this mechanism,” said Alana Welm, PhD, senior author of the study, associate professor in the Department of Oncological…

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Trapping Insects by Color: A New Approach for Montana

Gadi V.P. Reddy, superintendent and entomologist/ecologist at MSU's Western Triangle Agricultural Research Center at Conrad, said the lessons he learned in…

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Higher Biodiversity Through Varied Land-Use Intensity

Globally, the intensification of agricultural land use is considered the leading threat to biodiversity. Previous studies on the impacts of land-use intensity…

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Motor Excitability Linked to Working Memory Insights

This was shown in a study conducted by scientists from the Transfacultary Research Platform at the University of Basel. By measuring the motor excitability,…

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Cerebral sensory development: genetic programming versus environmental stimuli

The part of the brain associated with the sense of touch – the somatosensory cerebral cortex – has attracted numerous studies aimed at determining the…

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UT Southwestern Neuroscience Researchers Identify Gene Involved in Response to Cocaine

The researchers suspect that the newly identified gene, Cyfip2, determines how mammals respond to cocaine, although it is too soon to tell what the indications…

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Dual Catalysts Transform Alpha-Olefins Into New Organic Compounds

Boston College chemists have developed a new chemical synthesis methodology that converts chemicals known as alpha-olefins into new organic compounds. By…

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Promising H. Pylori Vaccine Advances in Mouse Studies

The investigators constructed a live recombinant bacterial vaccine, expressing the H. pylori antigen, adhesin Hp0410, in the food-grade bacterium,…

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Cells Redesign After UV Radiation: New Mapping Insights

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in The Netherlands and United Kingdom, have produced the first map…

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Selective Capture of MicroRNAs in Cell-Shuttling Nanovesicles

The role of microRNAs (miRNAs) is fundamental for the correct moment-to-moment adjustment in the expression of target genes. “Before this study, we already…

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Enlisting cells' protein recycling machinery to regulate plant products

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a new way to regulate the production of phenols, a class of plant…

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ASU Researchers Create Device for Imaging Proteins at Room Temp

In the paper, “Serial femtosecond crystallography of G-protein-coupled receptors,” the team reports that they have been successful in imaging at room…

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How Marine Snail Larvae Swim: New Biomechanics Study Insights

Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Stony Brook University grew Atlantic slipper limpet larvae, which are slightly larger than…

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Stem Cells Provide Insights for Reversing Hair Loss

The lab of USC scientist Krzysztof Kobielak, MD, PhD has published a trio of papers in the journals Stem Cells and The Proceedings of the National Academy of…

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University of Minnesota Identifies New Anti-HIV Drug Target

Complete findings are printed in today's issue of the Journal of Virology.The compounds, known as ribonucleoside analogs 8-azaadenosine, formycin A,…

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