Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Discover GHK Compound to Reverse Emphysema Damage

When the compound Gly-His-Lys (GHK) was applied to lung cells from patients with emphysema, normal gene activity in altered cells was restored and damaged…

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Driving an Electron Spin Vortex “Skyrmion” with a Microcurrent – Innovations Report

“Among other things, this type of lithography can be used to manufacture chips for use in biological sensors that can identify target molecules, such as…

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Chemistry Research Team Unveils New Device to Screen for Counterfeit Drugs

The paper analytical device (PAD) is the size of a business card and offers results in less than five minutes. It’s technology that could ferret out other fake…

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New Cancer Drug Developed by University of Missouri Researchers

Legend has it that Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” University of Missouri researchers…

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Synthetic Protein Targets Collagen to Locate Tumors

The technique could lead to a new type of diagnostic imaging technology and may someday serve as a way to move medications to parts of the body where signs of…

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Eyeless Australian Fish Linked to Madagascar Relatives

A team of researchers from Louisiana State University and the American Museum of Natural History has discovered that two groups of blind cave fishes on…

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Oversized Fat Droplets: Understanding Their Impact on Health

As the national waistline expands, so do pools of intra-cellular fat known as lipid droplets. Although most of us wish our lipid droplets would vanish, they…

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Internet addiction — Causes at the molecular level

“It was shown that Internet addiction is not a figment of our imagination,” says the lead author, Privatdozent Dr. Christian Montag from the Department for…

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Climate Change May Boost Avian Influenza in Wild Birds

Population ecologists Pejman Rohani and Victoria Brown used a mathematical model to explore the consequences of altered interactions between an important…

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Understanding Scale: A Call for Policy-Makers in Conservation

Yet conserving this biological richness is made difficult because it varies in complex ways at different scales of space and time. The problem of scale emerges…

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Advancements in DNA Copying: Insights from Angewandte Chemie

When a cell divides, it passes on genetic information by producing copies of its DNA. Chemists have also learned to copy DNA. In the journal Angewandte Chemie,…

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Catalysis: Ready for a close-up

The presence of carbon monoxide (CO) impurities in hydrogen gas (H2) can have a detrimental impact on the performance of fuel cells. Recent studies have shown…

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Could a Cancer Drug Prevent Learning Disabilities in Some Kids?

A drug originally developed to stop cancerous tumors may hold the potential to prevent abnormal brain cell growth and learning disabilities in some children,…

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Project MICREAgents: Smart Microscopic Reagents for Electronics

First place in an EU competitive call on “Unconventional Computing” was awarded to a collaborative proposal coordinated by Prof. John McCaskill from the RUB…

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New Protein Regulates Red Blood Cell Size and Count

Some people may have fewer, but larger RBCs, while others may have a larger number of smaller RBCs. Although these differences in size and number may seem…

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New Genetic Signature Linked to Leukemia by URMC Researchers

Although it is too early to attach significance to the drug candidates, two possible matches popped up: A drug in development for breast cancer (not approved…

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