Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

New Molecule Offers Hope for Muscular Dystrophy Treatment

Steven C. Zimmerman, the Roger Adams Professor of Chemistry at the U. of I., led the group in developing and demonstrating the compound. The National…

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Decoding Tarsiers: Insights Into Their Unique Origins

Tarsiers are indigenous to the islands of Southeast Asia, but visitors to the zoo should also be familiar with these charming monkeys with their conspicuously…

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Transforming Bad Fat to Good: New Insights from Mice Research

Their work, using mice as a model organism, provides important new insights into the origin of brown fat cells, which is a prerequisite for the development of…

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Turtle Genome Analysis Reveals Insights Into Evolutionary Traits

The Joint International Turtle Genomes Consortium, led by investigators from RIKEN, BGI, and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, has completed the genome…

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Mapping Cancer Cell Fuel Pumps for New Drug Development

Since tumours are highly dependent on the transportation of nutrients in order to be able to grow rapidly, the researchers are hoping that the study published…

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Scientists Discover New Way Protein Degradation Is Regulated

Researchers at Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have identified a new way that the cell’s protein recycler, the proteasome, takes…

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Hitting 'reset' in protein synthesis restores myelination

A potential new treatment strategy for patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is on the horizon, thanks to research by neuroscientists now at the University…

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Battery of tests on cancer cells shows them as 'squishy,' yet tactically strong

A team of student researchers and their professors from 20 laboratories around the country have gotten a new view of cancer cells. The work could shed light on…

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Movement of pyrrole molecules defy 'classical' physics

Using uniquely sensitive experimental techniques, scientists have found that laws of quantum physics – believed primarily to influence at only sub-atomic…

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Bird Navigation – Great Balls of Iron

Their work, published in Current Biology, reports the discovery of iron balls in sensory neurons. These cells, called hair cells, are found in the ear and are…

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C4BP: Spider-Shaped Protein as a Drug Transporter

The immune protein C4BP is potentially suitable as a transporter for drugs.The protein C4BP is similar to a spider in its spatial form with eight “arms”. The…

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Roundworm Insights: Tackling Obesity and Metabolic Disorders

Gastrointestinal nematodes infect approximately 2 billion people worldwide, and some researchers believe up until the 20th century almost everyone had worms….

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New Method Discovers RNAs Linked to Long-Term Memory

Now, working together, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), Columbia University and the University of Florida,…

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New Technique Captures Nanoparticle Dynamics in Action

In a recently published study, scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute invented a technique for imaging nanoparticle dynamics with atomic…

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Thanks to rare alpine bacteria, researchers identify one of alcohol's key gateways to the brain

It's a major step on the road to eventually developing drugs that could disrupt the interaction between alcohol and the brain.”Now that we've identified this…

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Key Organelle Discovered in Gene Silencing Mechanism

RNA molecules, made from DNA, are best known for their role in protein production. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), however, are short (~22) nucleotide RNA sequences found…

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