Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Artificial Tissue: Advancing Implant Development with Multi-Layers

One of the biggest challenges has been to create multi-layer tissue structures designed to enable the diffusion of nutrients for surrounding cells in a similar…

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MDC Researchers Uncover How T Cells Target Cancer Cells

However, the T cells not only kill cancer cells – they additionally destroy the tumor blood vessel system, thus impeding the supply of nutrients to the tumor….

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Exploring 100 Million Years of Grass Smut Fungi Evolution

Two-timing is nothing out of the ordinary for them: for about 100 million years, grass smut fungi have been breeding in a three-gender system. This was…

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Powerful drug's surprising, simple method could lead to better treatments

Led by chemistry professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute early career scientist Martin Burke, the researchers demonstrated that the top drug for treating…

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Empowering Young Talent: Breaking Barriers in Chemistry

Her high school tutor had actually advised her against studying chemistry, saying that it was not a subject for a woman, but if she really must study it then…

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New Anti-Malaria Drug Synthesized Using Oxygen and Light

The most effective anti-malaria drug can now be produced inexpensively and in large quantities. This means that it will be possible to provide medication for…

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Powerful drug's surprising, simple method could lead to better treatments

Led by chemistry professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute early career scientist Martin Burke, the researchers demonstrated that the top drug for treating…

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Arctic Plants at Risk Amid Climate Change Challenges

Future climate change will have a major impact on biological diversity. This is especially true in Arctic and alpine environments, which will be exposed to the…

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Enhancing Speech Recognition: Insights from New Research

ed by the Universities of Southampton and Cambridge, the research aims to develop physiologically-inspired algorithms, which mimic how our brain hears sound to…

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Quantitative imaging application to gut and ear cells are reported in 2 Nature papers

With its use of stable isotopes as tracers, MIMS has opened the door for biomedical researchers to answer various biological questions, as two new studies have…

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New Strategy to Prevent Drug-Induced Liver Injury Unveiled

Rutgers University and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have developed a novel strategy to protect the liver from drug-induced injury and…

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Ultra Short Telomeres: A New Link to Osteoarthritis

New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Arthritis Research & Therapy shows that cells from osteoarthritic knees have abnormally…

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Scientists shed new light on link between 'killer cells' and diabetes

The study provides the first evidence of this mechanism in action and could offer new understanding of the cause of Type 1 diabetes. Professor Andy Sewell, an…

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Researchers Use Sugar to Combat Esophageal Cancer Growth

These findings, reported in the journal Nature Medicine, have important implications for patients and may help to monitor their condition and prevent the…

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Walk this way: Scientists and MBL physiology students describe how a motor protein 'steps out'

But now scientists have discovered the unique “drunken sailor” gait of dynein, a protein that is critical for the function of every cell in the body and whose…

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Longer-lasting chemical catalysts

Metal-based chemical catalysts have excellent green chemistry credentials—in principle at least. In theory, catalysts are reusable because they drive chemical…

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