Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Failure to destroy toxic protein — not buildup of protein itself — contributes to Huntington's disease

Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's. Names forever linked to what they represent: diseases that ravage the brain's neurons and leave entire regions to…

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Copenhagen Chemists Advance Hydrogen Cars with Fuel Cells

Climate friendly fuel cells for hydrogen cars have come one step closer. Researchers at the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, have shown how…

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Frontline Immunity Study Unveils New Research Breakthrough

In a study published today in Nature Immunology, a team of researchers led by Professor Paul Hertzog, of the Monash Institute of Medical Research (MIMR) and…

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Impact of Mitotic Spindle Flip on Epithelial Cell Integrity

Constructing a body is like building a house—if you compromise structural integrity, the edifice can collapse. Nowhere is that clearer on a cellular level than…

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Stem Cell Insights: Heart and Lung Development for Land Life

Biologists have known that the co-development of the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems is a recent evolutionary adaption to life outside of water, coupling…

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U of M researchers identify new functions for autoimmune disease 'risk' gene

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have identified infection-fighting and inflammation-suppressing functions for a gene associated with human…

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How Microbes Shape Evolution in Plants and Animals

These microscopic fellow travelers are collectively called the microbiome. Realization that every species of plant and animal is accompanied by a distinctive…

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Salk Scientists Unveil Versatile Method for Stem Cell Creation

Stem cells are key to the promise of regenerative medicine: the repair or replacement of injured tissues with custom grown substitutes. Essential to this…

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A Secret to Making Macrophages

Biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have worked out the details of a mechanism that leads undifferentiated blood stem cells to…

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Analyzing Dynamics of Antibiotic Resistance Enzymes

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have been emerging at an alarming rate. In some of the scariest of these pathogens, the mechanism responsible for the bacteria's…

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Graphene ‘onion rings’ have delicious potential

Concentric hexagons of graphene grown in a furnace at Rice University represent the first time anyone has synthesized graphene nanoribbons on metal from the…

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New Breast Cancer Drug Target: Elevated Ret Protein Findings

The results, which are published today in EMBO Molecular Medicine, show that elevated levels of the protein Ret, which is short for “Rearranged during…

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TGen-TD2 Breast Cancer Study Highlights Proteomic Mapping Benefits

The Side-Out Foundation's breast cancer pilot study, led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Translational Drug Development (TD2) and…

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PRIMACYT Gains EU Approval as Reference Lab for Testing Alternatives

This network is coordinated by the European Union Reference Laboratory in Ispra, Italy. It consists of fourteen European GLP certified testing facilities,…

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New Antibody Method Detects Plague in Humans and Animals

Even today, the lives of humans and animals are claimed by plague. A new antibody-based detection method can be used to reliably and sensitively identify…

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Innovative Methods for Visualizing Bacterial Communication

The communication between bacterial cells is essential in the regulation of processes within bacterial populations, such as biofilm development. The results…

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