Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Cold Viruses Inspire New Approaches to Cancer Therapies

Cold viruses generally get a bad rap—-which they've certainly earned—-but new findings by a team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies…

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Jelly-like atmospheric particles resist chemical aging

Atmospheric chemists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have found that when it comes to secondary organic material in the…

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Viral Alliances: Overcoming Plant Defenses for Severe Infections

Washington State University researchers have found that viruses will join forces to overcome a plant's defenses and cause more severe infections.”These…

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Origins of Vertebrate Air Breathing: Key Neural Insights

“To breathe air with a lung you need more than a lung, you need neural circuitry that is sensitive to carbon dioxide,” said Michael Harris, a UAF…

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Physics Reveals How Sickling Cells Cause Illness

Their experiment, the first to answer a scientific question about sickle cell disease using microfluidics engineering methods, may help future researchers…

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Fruit fly's 'sweet tooth' short-lived: U of British Columbia research

While the flies initially prefer food with a sweet flavour, they quickly learn to opt for less sweet food sources that offer more calories and nutritional…

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Reprogramming Cell Identity in the Pituitary Gland

A team of researchers at the IRCM, supervised by Dr. Jacques Drouin, reprogrammed the identity of cells in the pituitary gland and identified critical…

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Green Leaf Volatiles Boost Plant Fitness for Sustainable Farming

To solve the acute, global problem of securing food resources for a continuously growing population, we must work constantly to increase the sustainability and…

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Evolving Microbes Help Iowa State Engineers Turn Bio-Oil Into Advanced Biofuels

But it’s not an easy job for E. coli and C. reinhardtii. The bacteria and microalgae, respectively, don’t like something in the bio-oil produced by fast…

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Targeting Proteins in DNA Damage Response for Cancer Therapies

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at the University of South Florida; Duke University; Johns Hopkins University; the Brazilian National…

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Genomic Hitchhikers in Birds Reveal Avian Retrovirus Evolution

“We examined the evolution of avian retroviruses on the basis of their fossil remnants in the three avian genomes that have been completely sequenced,” write…

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New Insights on How Brains Process Facial Expressions

Research released today helps reveal how human and primate brains process and interpret facial expressions, and the role of facial mimicry in everything from…

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Native Plants Thrive in UC Green Roof Study Results

As the implementation of green roofs increase, a University of Cincinnati pilot study examined which plants best thrive on the region’s roofs during the dry,…

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Scientists Identify Mammal Model of Bladder Regeneration

Now, researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine report on the regenerative process that enables rats to re-grow…

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Artificial Blood Maker: Exploring Erythropoietin Innovations

“Blood is quite a peculiar kind of juice“—that is what Mephisto knew, according to Goethe’s “Faust“. But if blood really is very special, then erythropoietin…

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Rare B Cells May Transform Autoimmune Disease Treatments

The findings, which were demonstrated in mice, highlight the unique properties of a subset of B cells that normally controls immune responses and limits…

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