Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Combating Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease with Novel Antibodies

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Develop Antibodies With Improved Ability for Preventing Formation of Toxic Protein Particles Linked to Diseases…

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Key Pathological Mechanism Discovered in Plague Bacterium

In the 14th century, the Black Death claimed the lives of one third of the population of Europe. Even though the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which causes the…

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Research Shows Iron's Importance in Infection, Suggests New Therapies

The collaborative research — led by Phillip Klebba, professor and head of the department of biochemistry — clarifies how microorganisms colonize animal hosts…

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Breakthrough Insights into Human Usher Syndrome Uncovered

After years of basic research, scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) are increasingly able to understand the mechanisms underlying the human…

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A*STAR’s ICES to develop technologies to produce high value chemicals from biomass

The Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES), a research institute of The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), officially opened…

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Cost-Effective Innovation in Dye-Based Solar Cells

Photovoltaics continues to be an expensive technology. Dye-based solar cells may represent a more cost-effective alternative to traditional solar cells. In…

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Insights Into Lyme Disease Bacteria: Common Strains Explained

New clues about the bacteria that cause Lyme disease could lead to a novel strategy to reduce infections, according to a study to be published in mBio®, the…

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Oil and Water: How Chain Length Affects Interaction Dynamics

Water plays a huge role in biological processes, from protein folding to membrane formation, and it could be that this transformation is useful in a way not…

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Probiotics Boost Fish Growth: Faster and Healthier Development

This research could help increase the success of raising rare ornamental fish to adulthood. It also has implications for aquaculture, since accelerating the…

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Multitasking Nanobubbles: Targeting Diseased Cells Effectively

Researchers at Rice University have found a way to kill some diseased cells and treat others in the same sample at the same time. The process activated by a…

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DNA Analysis Reveals Surprising Microbes at Fracking Site

They expected to find many tough microbes suited to extreme environments, such as those that derive from archaea, a domain of single-celled species sometimes…

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Controlling Signal Molecules for Cell Type Formation

The regulation of important signal molecules that are critical for the formation of various cell types can be influenced by a chemically produced variant of…

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Glowing Fish Illuminate Metabolism Insights for Researchers

A tiny, translucent zebrafish that glows green when its liver makes glucose has helped an international team of researchers identify a compound that regulates…

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Innovative Approaches to Safer Bulk Solvent Production

Bulk solvents, widely used in the chemical industry, pose a serious threat to human health and the environment. As a result, there is growing interest in…

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Cell Surface Transporters Enhance Cancer Drug Delivery Techniques

Although this finding emerges from the study of a single toxic molecule and the protein that it transports, Whitehead Member David Sabatini says this…

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Mechanochemistry: A Sustainable Solution to Pollution in Chemistry

Solvents are omnipresent in the chemical industry, and are a major environmental and safety concern. Therefore the large interest in mechanochemistry: an…

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