Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

New Insights in Battling Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

The bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a successful organism that lives in an estimated one third of the world’s population. But only about five percent…

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ADAM-12 Gene: A Breakthrough for Cancer and Arthritis Treatments

Alpana Ray, research associate professor in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine, and a team of researchers including Bimal Ray, professor of Veterinary…

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Research Insights: Understanding Pluripotent Stem Cells Better

“I think that this paper will change the way people think about what human ES cells represent from a developmental perspective,” said Dr. Kevin Eggan, NYSCF…

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First Census Reveals Fewer White Sharks Off California Coast

In the first census of its kind, research led by UC Davis and Stanford University found that there are far fewer white sharks off central California than…

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New Study Explores PARP Enzyme Role in Eukaryotes

An Ohio State University molecular biologist leveraged a supercomputer to help better define the family tree of a group of enzymes that have been implicated in…

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MU Chemist Unveils Faster Drug Processing Method

A prolific University of Missouri chemist has discovered a quicker and easier method for pharmaceutical companies to make certain drugs.Jerry Atwood, Curator's…

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Graphene oxide’s solubility disappears in the wash

However new research led by University of Warwick Chemist Dr Jonathan P. Rourke and Physicist University of Warwick Physicist Dr Neil Wilson, has found that…

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New role for phosphorylation in heterochromatin

A great many cellular processes are switched on or off by the modification of a given enzyme or other protein by addition of a phosphate molecule, known as…

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Modeling retinitis pigmentosa with iPS cells

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a cluster of genetically determined eye disorders that cause visual defects such as night blindness and narrowing of the field of…

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Conserved kinase protects cells from endosomal traffic jam

Some molecules have a single, highly specific function in physiology, while others have a much broader remit. Kinases in the IKK (inhibitor of nuclear factor…

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Garden Compost Enzymes Boost Bioethanol Production

The researcher in question is Nadia Skorupa Parachin and the secret of her technique is enzymes that she extracted from garden soil. If ethanol can be…

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Breakthrough DNA Analysis: 5,000 Samples in One Go

Now researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm have hit upon a new method that allows 5,000 samples to be run at the same time and at…

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Opalinus Clay: A Promising Host Rock for Nuclear Waste

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany, have studied natural claystone in the laboratory for more than four years in order to…

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UCLA Engineers Harness Proteins for Biofuels Innovation

In a study published online March 6 in the journal Nature Biotechnology, researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science…

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Iowa State Researcher Explores Green Catalysts for Sustainability

Woo, an Iowa State University professor of chemistry and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, has studied catalysts and the…

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Columbia Engineer Reveals Unique Cell Behavior in Vessel Formation

Biologists tend to look at cells in bulk, observing them as a group and taking the average behavior as the norm — the assumption is that genetically identical…

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