Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

When Anxiety Won’t Go Away

In experiments they showed that feelings of anxiety don’t subside if too little dynorphin is released into the brain. The results can help open up new paths in…

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Cedars-Sinai, global consortium develop stem cell tool to test Huntington’s treatments

Cedars-Sinai scientists, in collaboration with expert colleagues around the globe, used stem cells to re-create Huntington’s Disease in a petri dish, allowing…

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Unlocking Skin Renewal: The Role of Proteins and Exosomes

The findings provide new insights into the role and importance of exosomes and their targeted gene transcripts, and may help point the way to new drugs or…

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Traffic Innovation: Rethinking Intersection Management Today

A traffic policeman standing at a busy intersection directing the flow of vehicles may be a rare sight these days, but a similar scene appears to still…

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SPDEF Loss Enables Prostate Cancer Cell Metastasis Insights

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published this week in the Journal of Biological Chemistry shows that prostate cancer cells containing the protein…

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Cystic Fibrosis: How Acidic Airways Impact Bacterial Defense

Using a unique animal model of CF, a team of scientists from the University of Iowa has discovered a surprising difference between healthy airways and airways…

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Tumor Microenvironment Affects Skin Cancer Drug Resistance

One of cancer's most frightening characteristics is its ability to return after treatment. In the case of many forms of cancer, including the skin cancer known…

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New Stanford method enables sequencing of fetal genomes using only maternal blood sample

The findings from the new approach, to be published July 4 in Nature, are related to research that was reported a month ago from the University of Washington….

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Cancer scientists link ‘oncometabolite’ to onset of acute myeloid leukemia

Called an “oncometabolite” for its role in cancer metabolism, the metabolite2-hydroxyglutarate (2HG) is a by-product of a gene mutation of an enzyme known as…

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Immunology: Vaccine hope for virile virus

Chikungunya fever is a viral disease that has re-emerged to cause epidemics in the Pacific region within the last decade. It is caused by the Chikungunya virus…

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Spanish Researchers Innovate Drug Design with Clay Minerals

This project is based on a research on the adsortion and desorption of bioactive molecules on clay mineral surface. The goal is to design and develop new…

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Scientists find a new pharmacological target to modulate the effect of cannabinoids through their CB1 receptors

The results of this research may help in the better understanding of alterations where the CB1 receptor participates, such as in chronic pain, Parkinson's…

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Predicting Antibiotic Resistance: New Insights from Research

Research by Wageningen University, part of Wageningen UR, has shown that the development of bacteria with resistance against the antibiotic cefotaxime occurs…

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PolarTime: Unlocking Polar Plankton’s Inner Clock

PolarTime, coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, will be supported for up to five years with approximately three million…

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Humidity Boosts Odor Perception in Hermit Crabs

Max Planck scientists have found out that the olfactory system in hermit crabs is still underdeveloped in comparison to that of vinegar flies. While flies have…

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Why Orangutans Prefer Trees: Insights from Urban Athletes

The findings help us to understand why orangutans spend most of their lives in trees despite being much larger than other tree-dwelling animals. It also helps…

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