Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Catalysis: Optimizing water splitting

Partnerships can pay off when it comes to converting solar into chemical energy. By modeling a cadmium sulfide (CdS)–zinc sulfide (ZnS) alloy with special…

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Fall Calls Bats to Hibernate, Scientists to Study Them

Bats are the only mammals that can fly. There are more than 1,000 species. In fact, 1 in 5 mammals is a bat. And in the fall, bats often migrate hundreds of…

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Seawater’s Chemical Memory: Insights from Prof. Boris Koch

Water does not forget, says Prof. Boris Koch, a chemist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association….

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Common RNA Pathway Links ALS and Dementia: New Insights

The discovery reveals a small set of target genes that could be used to measure the health of motor neurons, and provides a useful tool for development of new…

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New Gene Discovery Linked to Deafness: Implications for Therapy

These findings, published in the Sept. 30 advance online edition of the journal Nature Genetics, could help researchers develop new therapeutic targets for…

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Search for element 113 concluded at last

After many years of painstaking work, Japanese researchers prove third time's a charmThe most unambiguous data to date on the elusive 113th atomic element has…

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Joslin Scientists Identify Molecular Process in Fat Cells That Influences Stress and Longevity

This finding may lead to the development of treatments that increase stress resistance and longevity and improve metabolism. The findings appear in the…

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Genetic Sleuthing Reveals New Virus in Africa’s Outbreak

An isolated outbreak of a deadly disease known as acute hemorrhagic fever, which killed two people and left one gravely ill in the Democratic Republic of Congo…

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Liver Cells and Thymus Tissue Grown in Lymph Nodes: Study Insights

In a report recently published online in Nature Biotechnology, the research team showed for the first time that liver cells, thymus tissue and…

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Exploring Electronic Noses: Innovations in Food Quality Control

Electronic noses are used to sniff out exhaust fumes and assist with quality control of foods. Less well known is the fact that equivalent devices, electronic…

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Deadly complication of stem cell transplants reduced in mice

About 50 percent of leukemia patients who receive stem cells from another person develop graft-versus-host disease, a condition where donor immune cells attack…

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Genetic Link Found Between Psychiatric and Movement Disorders

Seemingly normal young people are suddenly and dramatically unable to control movement of their arms or legs and have trouble speaking or swallowing. A normal…

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Moffitt Researchers Discover Key to Ovarian Cancer Stem Cells

The study appears in a recent issue of the The Journal of Biological Chemistry. According to the study’s lead author, Jin Q. Cheng, Ph.D., M.D., senior member…

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Hummingbirds: The Art of Effortless Backward Flight

However, when he searched the literature he was disappointed to find that there were hardly any studies of this particular behaviour. 'This was a bit…

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MBARI researchers discover what vampire squids eat (it's not what you think)

Since that time, perhaps a dozen scientific papers have been published on this mysterious animal, but no one has been able to figure out exactly what it eats.A…

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New Insights into Inflammatory Cells’ Function for Future Remedies

“We've found that hundreds of new genes are involved in the function and development of these cells,” said co-author Richard Bonneau, an associate professor at…

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