Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

World's Largest Sheep an International Traveler

A genetic study of the world’s largest sheep species has revealed that the big-horned animals travel extensively across the moutainous borders of Afghanistan,…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Retinal Cells: A Study by Hattar and Badea

In a study recently published in Nature, a team led by Samer Hattar of the Department of Biology at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Tudor Badea at…

Life & Chemistry

Enhancing 3D Imaging for Modern Biological Research

For modern biologists, the ability to capture high-quality, three-dimensional (3D) images of living tissues or organisms over time is necessary to answer…

Life & Chemistry

Tiny Electron May Unlock Future Drugs for Sunburn Repair

What they saw contradicts fundamental notions of how key biological molecules break up during the repair of sunburn – and that knowledge could someday lead to…

Life & Chemistry

New Regulatory T Cell Disrupts Antibody Production

A regulatory T cell that expresses three specific genes shuts down the mass production of antibodies launched by the immune system to attack invaders, a team…

Life & Chemistry

Turtles and Lizards: New Insights into Their Family Tree

For decades, paleontologists and molecular biologists have disagreed about whether turtles are more closely related to birds and crocodiles or to lizards. Now,…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Uncovered Linked to Grey Platelet Syndrome

Researchers have identified an elusive gene responsible for Grey Platelet Syndrome, an extremely rare blood disorder in which only about 50 known cases have…

Life & Chemistry

“Heat-Loving” Fungus Supplies the DNA to Rebuild a Central Structure of Nuclear Envelope

By exploiting the DNA of a thermophilic fungus that grows optimally between 50 and 60 degrees Celsius Heidelberg scientists have reconstructed a central piece…

Life & Chemistry

Silence of the genes

A molecular mechanism by which gene silencing is regulated at the genome-wide level in plants has been uncovered by a research team led by Motoaki Seki of the…

Life & Chemistry

Immunity restrained by ion influx

B cells maintain stockpiles of calcium ions (Ca2+), which are released during the course of the immune response. When the presence of a foreign antigen…

Life & Chemistry

New imaging techniques reveal the workings of supramolecular nanomachines

Koji YonekuraAssociate Chief ScientistBiostructural Mechanism LaboratoryPhoton Science Research DivisionRIKEN SPring-8 CenterSupramolecules comprising many…

Life & Chemistry

DNA-Enhanced Glucose Meters: Beyond Sugar Measurement

Chemistry professor Yi Lu and postdoctoral researcher Yu Xiang published their findings in the journal Nature Chemistry.“The advantages of our method are high…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Complete First Genome Mapping of Molecule Found in Human Embryonic Stem Cells That May Regulate Gene Expression

The finding by researchers with the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA may prove to be important in…

Life & Chemistry

Catching West Nile Virus: Latest Innovations in Detection

Since 1999, several outbreaks of West Nile Virus, which causes fever or severe neurological symptoms and is transmitted from birds to humans by blood-sucking…

Life & Chemistry

Epigenetic 'memory' key to nature versus nurture

The work was led by Professor Martin Howard and Professor Caroline Dean at the John Innes Centre, which receives strategic funding from BBSRC. Funding for the…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Variations Linked to Second Cancers in Hodgkin Survivors

Hodgkin's lymphoma is one of the most treatable cancers, with more than 90 percent of patients surviving after a combination of radiation and chemotherapy. But…

Feedback