Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

New Compound by Scripps Research Virtually Eliminates HIV

The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to affect 34 million individuals worldwide, including more than 3 million children, according to the World Health Organization….

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Virus Discovered in Cultus Lake Sport Fish: Key Findings

SFU professor Rick Routledge and Stan Proboszcz, a fisheries biologist at the Watershed Watch Salmon Society, have found evidence of the piscine reovirus (PRV)…

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Genetic Changes in Melanoma Linked to Sun Damage Uncovered

It's been a burning question in melanoma research: Tumor cells are full of ultraviolet (UV)-induced genetic damage caused by sunlight exposure, but which…

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Strategies to improve renewable energy feedstocks …

To enable greater reliance on renewable biomass resources for power generation, combination approaches such as co-firing of high percentages of biomass with…

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Dissecting 10,000 Fruit-Fly Larvae: Key Research Insights

What do you get when you dissect 10 000 fruit-fly larvae? A team of researchers led by the EMBL- European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in the UK and the…

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Iron Fertilization Experiment Shows Carbon Sink Success

Unlike the LOHAFEX experiment carried out in 2009, EIFEX has shown that a substantial proportion of carbon from the induced algal bloom sank to the deep sea…

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OHSU Discovery Paves Way for New ALS Treatment Insights

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry have discovered that TDP-43, a protein strongly linked to ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral…

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Chagas Disease: Tackling a Global Health Challenge

Around the world, almost 10 million people are infected with the disease – mostly in Central and South America and parts of the USA. Tourism and immigration,…

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Enhanced Royal Jelly Creates Jumbo Queen Bee Larvae

Their study, which found that the super RJ that makes queen bee larvae grow 2-3 times larger than normal, appears in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food…

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Green Plants Cut City Pollution By 8X More Than Expected

Thomas Pugh and colleagues explain that concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and microscopic particulate matter (PM) — both of which can be harmful to…

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Friends with benefits

Harvard researchers are unlocking the evolutionary secrets of one of the world's most recognizable groups of mushrooms, and to do it, they're using one of the…

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World's Toughest Bacterium Holds Promise for Rapid Vaccine Development Against Deadly Diseases

A lethally irradiated vaccine was successfully tested in mice against drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria by colleagues at the National Institutes of…

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Nanoscale Scaffolds And Stem Cells Show Promise In Cartilage Repair

Reporting online June 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, investigators produce an important component of cartilage in both laboratory…

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Neurons Misfiring Linked to Protein Build-Up: New Insights

Using a two-photon microscope capable of peering deep within living tissue, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have…

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Study shows how aging impairs immune response

The study, conducted in aging mice, shows that administering antioxidants may help reverse this loss of immune function. The findings were published online…

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Unlocking Pluripotency: How Stem Cells Become Any Cell

New research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds light on pluripotency—the ability of embryonic stem cells to renew themselves indefinitely and to…

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