Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

U of M Researchers Uncover Gene for Lifelong Male Sex Maintenance

University of Minnesota Medical School and College of Biological Sciences researchers have made a key discovery showing that male sex must be maintained…

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Unlocking Melanoma Progression Insights: URMC Research Findings

This month in the journal Cancer Research, Lei Xu, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biomedical Genetics at the University of Rochester Medical Center, proposed…

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TGen and Virginia G. Piper Center Explore New Breast Cancer Drug

A new drug targeting the PI3K gene in patients with advanced breast cancer shows promising results in an early phase I investigational study conducted at…

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Mouse Model Unlocks Insights Into Rare Genetic Disorder

A team of researchers from the University of Utah and Brigham Young University has developed a mouse model of focal dermal hypoplasia, a rare human birth…

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Caltech Researchers Build First DNA-Based Artificial Neural Network

Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers…

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When injured muscles mistakenly grow bones

For hundreds of thousands of people, injuring a muscle through an accident like falling off a bike or having surgery can result in a strange and serious…

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Safety Testing Ensures Quality Gulf Seafood for Consumers

The little-known story of the effort by Federal agencies to assure safety of Gulf seafood is the topic of the cover article in the current edition of Chemical…

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Advance in Ultra-Portable Electronics with Conductive Nanowires

Yuji Okawa and colleagues write that the “key to single-molecule electronics is connecting functional molecules to each other using conductive nanowires. This…

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Seaweed: A New Source of Heart-Healthy Food Ingredients

Maria Hayes and colleagues Ciarán Fitzgerald, Eimear Gallagher and Deniz Tasdemir note increased interest in using bioactive peptides, now obtained mainly from…

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Engineering Excitable Cells for Bioelectricity Research

This proof-of-concept advance could have broad implications in treating diseases of the nervous system or the heart, since these tissues rely on cells with the…

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New Lung Cancer Gene Discovery: Key Insights for Research

A major challenge for cancer biologists is figuring out which among the hundreds of genetic mutations found in a cancer cell are most important for driving the…

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One-Time Gene Therapy Shields Arteries From Atherosclerosis

A one-dose method for delivering gene therapy into an arterial wall effectively protects the artery from developing atherosclerosis despite ongoing high blood…

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University of Maryland researchers discover possible drug targets for common non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have discovered a novel interaction between two proteins involved in regulating cell growth that…

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Understanding Early Human Embryo Development: A Closer Look

How is it that a disc-like cluster of cells transforms within the first month of pregnancy into an elongated embryo? This mechanism is a mystery that man has…

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Understanding Wave Motion: The Power of Merging Waves

When waves meet, a new single wave is created. This phenomenon is well understood for mechanical waves such as sound, and electro-magnetic waves such as light,…

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Researchers Develop Method to Map Cell Receptor that Regulates Stress

In the July 12th online international issue of Angewandte Chemie, the researchers published a method demonstrating how unnatural amino acids (Uaas) can be used…

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