Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

How Do Cells Tell Time? Scientists Develop Single-Cell Imaging to Watch the Cell Clock

Scientists developed the imaging tool in single living cells by fusing a protein defining the cells’ cyclical behavior to a yellow fluorescent protein that…

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Injectable sponge delivers drugs, cells, and structure

Bioengineers at Harvard have developed a gel-based sponge that can be molded to any shape, loaded with drugs or stem cells, compressed to a fraction of its…

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Meditation’s Impact on Emotional Processing in the Brain

A new study has found that participating in an 8-week meditation training program can have measurable effects on how the brain functions even when someone is…

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New Gene Discovery Linked to Rare Childhood Leukemia

Research led by the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital – Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project has identified a fusion gene responsible for…

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Fertile Fruit Flies Thrive Without Histone H3.3

Histones are proteins that are found in the cell’s nucleus, where they are present in complexes with DNA and are presumed to play a regulatory role in all…

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Unique Mutation Discovered in Burkitt Lymphoma Genome Sequencing

Findings from the genetic sequencing of Burkitt lymphoma, an aggressive form of lymphoma, could be used to develop new drugs or aim existing therapies at…

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Marine Methane Oxidation: New Insights from Leading Scientists

Microbiologists and geochemists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, along with their colleagues from Vienna and Mainz, show that marine…

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Colourful Wall Hangings: Uncovering Toxic Substances in Art

Previous research into bonad painting has always originated in the humanities, from an art/cultural history perspective.Bonad paintings are painted wall…

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Bacteria Use Sticky Lollipops to Attack Host Cells

Tübingen and Berlin scientists investigate pathogens by help of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy – Publications in Nature Methods and Nature…

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International Research Team Finds Two Genetic Flaws Behind Third Most Common Form of Inherited Muscular Dystrophy

The team, co-led by Stephen Tapscott, M.D., Ph.D., a member of the Hutchinson Center’s Human Biology Division, discovered that a rare variant of FSHD, called…

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Wild Birds and the 2010 West Nile Virus Outbreak in Greece

WNV is a flavivirus of major public health concern, spread through the bite of infected mosquitoes. Discovered in Uganda in 1937, it was only sporadically…

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New Gene Identification Method Uncovered by Scientists

Scientists studying the genes and proteins of human cells infected with a common cold virus have identified a new gene identification technique that could…

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New Insights on DNA Packaging Mutations in FSHD

A recent finding by medical geneticists sheds new light on how Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy develops and how it might be treated. More commonly known…

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Plants Control Flower Production: New Discoveries Unveiled

Flowers don't just catch our eyes, they catch those of pollinators like bees as well. They have to, in order to reproduce. Because plants need to maximize the…

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Genetic Flaws Linked to Common Inherited Muscular Dystrophy

An international research team co-led by a scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has identified two genetic factors behind the third most common…

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Micro RNAs in Plants: New Insights from Tübingen Study

That is the key finding of a new study performed by Tübingen scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. They identified a new component…

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