Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Immune system monitoring improved

Their application has so far been limited because they are difficult to make and expensive. An invention by the research group of Sebastian Springer, Professor…

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New Artificial Protein Mimics HIV Outer Coat for Innovation

Reported during the week of Oct. 21, 2013, in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the finding provides a potential new strategy in…

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New Method Enhances Stem Cell Fate Prediction at U of T

University of Toronto researchers have developed a method that can rapidly screen human stem cells and better control what they will turn into. The technology…

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Protecting the Brain: Synapse Innovations in Neurodegeneration

The study, which has implications for understanding neurodegenerative diseases, stroke, and other nervous system disorders, adds to a growing body of evidence…

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Exploring Protein Dynamics: Fate of Import Receptor Pex18

Recycling or “scrap press”: physicians at the Ruhr-Universität have found out which molecular mechanisms decide about the fate of the import receptor Pex18….

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Super Song Learners: Insights from Max Planck’s Research

However, there are relatively large differences in the accuracy how these songs are copied. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in…

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Chimpanzees Use Long-Term Memory in Food Search Strategies

Where do you go when the fruits in your favourite food tree are gone and you don’t know which other tree has produced new fruit yet? An international team of…

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Climate Change’s Impact on Seafloor Microbial Life

For more a decade scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and their colleagues at MARUM and the University of Aarhus have investigated…

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Single Mutation Unlocks New Virus Target, Study Shows

In a new study published online in the journal PLoS Pathogens, an international team of scientists showed that by swapping a single amino acid they could…

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Enhancing Food Safety: Small Changes in Ag Practices

“This is going to help make produce safer,” says Laura Strawn, a researcher on the study. “We could significantly reduce risk of contamination through changes…

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Neuron 'claws' in the brain enable flies to distinguish 1 scent from another

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) are using the fruit fly to discover how the brain integrates multiple signals to identify one unique smell….

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Cells' 'molecular muscles' help them sense and respond to their environments

A summary of the discovery, published online Oct. 20 in the journal Nature Materials, specifically sheds light on how forces outside of cells are translated…

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'Random' cell movement is directed from within

Cell biologists at The Johns Hopkins University have teased apart two integral components of the machinery that causes cells to move. Their discovery shows…

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Blood Stem Cells Age: New Insights from Molecular Switch

The study is expected to help in the search for therapeutic strategies to slow or reverse the aging process, and possibly rejuvenate these critically important…

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UCLA Discovers Biological Clock to Measure Human Tissue Age

Everyone grows older, but scientists don't really understand why. Now a UCLA study has uncovered a biological clock embedded in our genomes that may shed light…

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Next-Gen Gene Sequencing Detects Invasive Carp in Chicago

The work, funded through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, is being conducted by researchers from the University of…

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