Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

GW Researchers Discover Biomarker for Advanced Bile Duct Fibrosis and Bile Duct Cancer

GW Researchers, Jeffrey M. Bethony, Ph.D., associate professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, and Paul Brindley, Ph.D., professor of…

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New Safer Vaccine Development Method by OHSU Research Team

As explained in a newly published research paper, Mark Slifka, Ph.D., and colleagues have discovered a new method for creating vaccines that is thought to be…

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Tuatara’s Unique Chewing Technique Revealed by Scientists

Using a sophisticated computer model, scientists from UCL and the University of Hull demonstrate how the tuatara is able to slice its food like a “steak…

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Scientists Identify Gene Linked to Rare Baby Disease

A rare disease which often first presents in newborn babies has been traced to a novel genetic defect, scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have…

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Cancer Tumors Share Pro-Metastatic Info via Secret Vesicles

Cancer researchers have known for well over a century that different tumor types spread only to specific, preferred organs. But no one has been able to…

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It's in the Genes: Research Pinpoints How Plants Know When to Flower

Determining the proper time to flower, important if a plant is to reproduce successfully, involves a sequence of molecular events, a plant's circadian clock…

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Microbial Arachidonic Acid Biosynthesis: Health and Bio-Diesel

SCO are essential for health and potential sources of bio-diesel. There has been a long history of interest in the exploitation of microorganisms as oil and…

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U of M Study Reveals Titan Cells Shield Cryptococcus

Kirsten Nielsen, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of microbiology, and recent Ph.D. recipient Laura Okagaki believe their discovery could help…

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New Stem Cell Technique Boosts Heart Cell Production

Writing this week (May 28, 2012) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of Wisconsin scientists describes a way to transform human stem…

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Hidden Flower Features: Key to Bee Survival Unveiled

Published today in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology, their research reveals that Velcro-like cells on plant petals play a crucial…

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New Technique Promises Earlier Detection of Bone Loss

Scientists at Arizona State University and NASA are taking on this medical challenge by developing and applying a technique that originated in the Earth…

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Speeding Up Biomedical Science: Mapping Biomolecules in Tissue

Biomedical scientists are dreaming of a technique showing the distribution of all the biomolecular constituents that make up biological tissue in…

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Locating ground zero: How the brain’s emergency workers find the disaster area

Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have now discovered exactly how microglia detect the site of injury,…

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New Insights: Brain Compensates for Flickering Gaze

These spheres may look almost identical, but subtle differences between them revealed a molecular version of the robots from Transformers. Each sphere is a…

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New Species Top 10 List Draws Attention to Diverse Biosphere

The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and a committee of scientists from around the world announced their picks for…

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Researchers Find Genetic Evidence That Turtles Are More Closely Related To Birds Than Lizards And Snakes

Paleontological and morphological studies place turtles as either evolving from the ancestor of all reptiles or as evolving from the ancestor of snakes,…

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