Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Football-shaped particles bolster the body's defense against cancer

These football-shaped particles seem to be better than the typical basketball-shaped particles at teaching immune cells to recognize and destroy cancer cells…

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McMaster Researchers Discover New Antibiotics to Combat Resistance

Researchers at McMaster University are addressing the crisis in drug resistance with a novel approach to find new antibiotics.”We have developed technology to…

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Spanish Researchers Sequence Exome of Non-Infiltrating Bladder Cancer

Bladder cancer represents a serious public health problem in many countries, especially in Spain, where 11,200 new cases are recorded every year, one of the…

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Newly Discovered Gene Regulator Could Precisely Target Sickle Cell Disease

The researchers—led by Daniel Bauer, MD, PhD, and Stuart Orkin, MD, of Dana-Farber/Boston Children's—reported their findings today in Science.Prior work by…

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The role of 'master regulators' in gene mutations and disease

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new way to parse and understand how special proteins called “master…

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Study identifies 4 genetic variants linked to esophageal cancer and Barrett's esophagus

An international consortium co-led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Australia has…

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Outside Influence: How Non-Nuclear Genes Shape Cells

Plant and animal cells carry most of their genes on chromosomes in the nucleus, separated from the rest of the cell. However, they also contain a small number…

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Graphene-Polymer Innovation Enhances Gas Tanks for Cars and Beverages

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has enhanced a polymer material to make it far more impermeable to pressurized gas and far lighter than the metal in tanks…

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New Insights Into Brain Mechanisms of Cataplexy

Normally muscles contract in order to support the body, but in a rare condition known as cataplexy the body's muscles “fall asleep” and become involuntarily…

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New Approaches to Prevent Blood Clots During Surgery

One of the risks of any large operation is the occurrence of blood clots. To prevent this, patients are routinely given the anticoagulant heparin or related…

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Red Crabs of Christmas Island: Nature’s Tropical Communicators

Native to the Australian territories of Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, millions of the crabs start rolling across the island roads and…

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LSU Researchers Uncover Microbial Survival in Freezing Conditions

But, with the support of funding from NASA, researchers in LSU’s Department of Biological Sciences tried something almost unheard of: studying microbial…

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Scientists Found Novel Way To "Switch on" Tumour Suppressors That Have Been Silenced

A team of scientists from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and their collaborators from…

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Innate Immune Response Insights at NoRDI 2023 Meeting

The innate immune response to bacterial, viral and parasitic infections is the main topic of this year's “North-Regio-Day on Infection” meeting, short NoRDI…

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Recombinant Human Prion Protein Shows Promise Against Prion Diseases

Case Western Reserve University researchers today published findings that point to a promising discovery for the treatment and prevention of prion diseases,…

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Notre Dame Researchers Develop New Allergy Treatment Approach

“Our allergy inhibition project is innovative and significant because we brought a novel molecular design approach to selectively inhibit mast cell…

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