Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Enhancing Water-Splitting Catalysts for Solar Fuel Cells

Scientists and engineers around the world are working to find a way to power the planet using solar-powered fuel cells.Such green systems would split water…

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U of M faculty find antimicrobials altering intestinal bacteria composition in swine

Antibiotics are routinely administered to swine to treat illness and to promote larger, leaner animals.The results of the study, conducted by Richard Isaacson,…

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Gene Therapy: Hope for Fatal Childhood Bone Diseases

The most serious form of excessively high bone density is a rare, hereditary disease which can lead to the patient’s death by the age of only five. Researchers…

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Cyanide Testing Innovation for Quick Smoke Poisoning Response

Because the quick diagnosis and treatment of victims with cyanide poisoning is critical and often lifesaving, it is very surprising that a cyanide test for…

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TB outbreaks could be 'solved' by DNA tracking

This approach is directly informing public health strategies to control infectious disease outbreaks, says a scientist speaking at the Society for General…

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Researchers Uncover Manic Gene Insights for Mental Health

Researchers from the University of Bonn and the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim have now discovered, based on patient data and animal models,…

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Infrared Spectroscopy Reveals Protein-Pharmaceutical Interactions

RUB-Researchers from the Chair for Biophysics have developed a new method for the detailed study of the interaction between pharmaceuticals and their target…

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UCLA Uncovers Key Link Between Stem Cells and Immunity

The studies were done using human bone marrow, which contains all the stem cells that produce blood during postnatal life.”We felt it was especially important…

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The Beat Goes On: Research Yields Two 'Firsts' Regarding Protein Crucial to Human Cardiac Function

Using an imaging method called atomic force microscopy, Loong achieved two “firsts”: the first direct imaging of individual alpha-tropomyosin molecules, which…

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Early Activation of Immune Response Could Lead to Better Vaccines

Grégoire Lauvau, Ph.D.One way the immune system protects the body against microbes like bacteria and viruses is with memory CD8+ T cells, so named because they…

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Moving Toward Regeneration

Now, in a study published in an upcoming issue of Development, researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research describe a novel system that allowed…

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Ancient Enzymes Unwind RNA Like Nanopistons: A Breakthrough

Molecular biologists at The University of Texas at Austin have solved one of the mysteries of how double-stranded RNA is remodeled inside cells in both their…

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Design help for drug cocktails

For years, doctors treating those with HIV have recognized a relationship between how faithfully patients take the drugs they prescribe, and how likely the…

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How AKAPs Shape Glucose Metabolism and Insulin Release

A-kinase anchoring proteins or AKAPs are known to influence the spatial distribution of kinases within the cell, crucial enzymes that control important…

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New Insights Into Diabetes Genes from Human Cell Research

The new research findings have been achieved as a result of access to human insulin-producing cells from deceased donors and by not only studying one gene…

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A new light shed on genetic regulation's role in the predisposition to common diseases

By gene regulation we mean the decision that the cell makes as to when, where and at what level to activate or suppress the expression of a gene. In theory,…

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