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New Regulator Discovered in Allergic Disease Treatment

Scientists from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center say the finding opens the potential for new molecular targets to treat allergic disease. They…

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Star-Shaped Gold Nanorods Enhance Medical Imaging

They look like fruit, and indeed the nanoscale stars of new research at Rice University have tasty implications for medical imaging and chemical sensing.Starfruit-shaped gold nanorods synthesized by chemist Eugene Zubarev and Leonid Vigderman, a graduate student in his lab at Rice’s BioScience Research Collaborative, could nourish applications that rely on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)….

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Dinosaur Carcasses: New Study Disproves Explosion Theory

Now a Swiss-German research team has proved that these carcasses sank to the seabed and did not explode. The sedimentologists and paleontologists from the…

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Mapping Substrate-Kinase Interactions for Better Cancer Drugs

Kinase enzymes deliver phosphates to cell proteins in a process called phosphorylation, switching a cellular function on or off. Irregularities in…

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New ABC Transporter Structure Offers Insights Into Metabolic Diseases

Biochemists from the University of Zurich and the NCCR Structural Biology have succeeded in determining the atomic structure of a new ABC transporter. The…

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New Gene Therapy Targets Red Blood Cell Disorders Effectively

A team of researchers led by scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College has designed what appears to be a powerful gene therapy strategy that can treat both…

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Molecular Braille: New Method for DNA Identification Revealed

The work is reported in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.Using the approach they call “Direct Molecular Recognition,” the UCLA and NYU researchers…

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Hammerhead Shark Double Whammy

According to an April 2012 article in the scientific journal Marine Biology, the new look-alike hammerhead species has now been discovered more than 4,300…

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Nanoparticles and Magnetic Currents Target Cancer Cells in Mice

The findings, published recently in the journal Theranostics, mark the first time to the researchers' knowledge this cancer type has been treated using…

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Bururi Long-Fingered Frog Rediscovered After 62 Years

Herpetologists from the California Academy of Sciences and University of Texas at El Paso discovered a single specimen of the Bururi long-fingered frog…

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Discovering Bycatch Treasures in Shrimp Fishing Nets

So far the shrimp fisherman Uwe Abken has had little interest in the bycatch in his nets. But recently the fisherman from the East Friesian town of…

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First Full Image of Vitamin B12 in Action Revealed

You see it listed on the side of your cereal box and your multivitamin bottle. It's vitamin B12, part of a nutritious diet like all those other vitamins and…

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The Black Queen Hypothesis: A new evolutionary theory

The authors of an opinion piece appearing in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, on March 27 explain their ideas…

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The Black Queen Hypothesis: A new evolutionary theory

The authors of an opinion piece appearing in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, on March 27 explain their ideas…

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Smokers May Face Higher Schizophrenia Risk, Study Reveals

Schizophrenia has long been known to be hereditary. However, as a melting pot of disorders with different genetic causes is concealed behind manifestations of…

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Researchers unravel genetic mechanism of fatty liver disease in obese children

The study, which focused on three ethnic groups, is published in the March issue of the journal Hepatology. Led by Nicola Santoro, M.D., associate research…

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