Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Scientists decipher cellular 'roadmap' of disease-related proteins

Igor Stagljar, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine's Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, and his team developed the first roadmap for…

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New Mouse Model Uncovers Insights Into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Now, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a mouse model that accurately mimics the course of the disease in humans. The…

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Unlocking Protein Pathways: New Insights from UConn Research

Using highly sensitive fluorescent probes, a team of scientists from the University of Connecticut has captured the never-before-seen structural dynamics of an…

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How the brain creates the 'buzz' that helps ideas spread

UCLA psychologists have taken a significant step toward answering these questions, identifying for the first time the brain regions associated with the…

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To feed the future, we must mine the wealth of the world's seed banks today

To keep pace with population growth and rising incomes around the world, researchers estimate that food availability must double in the next 25 years. The…

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New Research Sheds Light on M.O. of Unusual RNA Molecules

That entire thing—not just the genes, but also genetic junk and all the rest—is coiled and folded up in any number of ways within the nucleus of each of our…

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Molecular Chains: New Insights into Magnetic Field Sensitivity

Researchers of MESA+, the research institute for nanotechnology of the University of Twente, in cooperation with researchers of the University of Strasbourg…

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Understanding Brain Epigenome Changes from Birth to Adolescence

Experience of parents with their children and teachers with their students demonstrate how kids change their behaviours and knowledge from infancy to…

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New Tech Breakthrough Enhances Drug Development Efficiency

Most drugs operate by binding to one or more proteins and affecting their function, which creates two common bottlenecks in the development of drugs;…

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Ethnic Variations in Immune Response to TB Bacteria Discovered

The study, led by researchers at Queen Mary, University of London, in collaboration with the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research…

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Octopus' blue blood allows them to rule the waves!

They manage to survive temperature habitats ranging from as low as -1.8°C to more than 30°C due to their ability to keep supplying oxygen to their body…

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New Marker Substance Enhances Cancer Cell Imaging Techniques

Imaging techniques in cancer medicine provide far more than merely information on the scale and location of cancerous ulcers. There are modern methods that…

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FAM190A Gene Disruption Impacts Cell Division in Cancer Cells

In laboratory studies of cells, investigators found that knocking down expression of FAM190A disrupts mitosis. In three pancreatic cancer-cell lines and a…

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Hawkmoths Use Ultrasound to Outsmart Bats, New Study Finds

A new study co-authored by a University of Florida researcher shows hawkmoths use sonic pulses from their genitals to respond to bats producing the…

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Unconventional T Cell Regulation Revealed by St. Jude Research

New findings from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital reveal an unconventional control mechanism involved in the production of specialized T cells that play…

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Cell membranes: Synthetics save time and cut costs

Screening for critical drug targets known as G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is now possible without the need to extract these proteins from their native…

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