New research by Prof. Dekel and her team, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), has revealed an unexpected possible…
C&EN Senior Editor Celia Henry Arnaud notes that collecting drops of blood from patients and depositing the drops on special paper cards to dry has been used…
Peixuan Guo and colleagues point out that DNA, the double-stranded genetic blueprint of life, and RNA, its single-stranded cousin, share common chemical…
The detailed look at what occurs as the parasite burrows through the walls of red blood cells provides new insights into the molecular and cellular events that…
Chemists at the University of Illinois and collaborators in Taiwan studied a type of enzyme found in humans, plants, fungi, parasites, and many bacteria that…
In their latest study, researchers at the Salk Institute uncovered presenilin's productive side: It helps embryonic motor neurons navigate the maze of chemical…
To obtain hydrogen as an energy-rich and environmentally “clean” fuel by an inexpensive, simple method without using expensive metal catalysts preoccupies…
Neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute of Learning and Memory have uncovered why relatively minor details of an episode are sometimes inexplicably linked…
Birds, such as the chicken, provide an excellent model for the study of many developmental processes, and remain one of the most commonly studied species in…
The discovery could potentially lead to new therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative diseases aimed at blocking the spread of protein misfolding throughout…
Using chemical compounds found in a Japanese plant as a lead and the clever application of ultraviolet light, a Scripps Research Institute team has created a…
A technique developed by University of Central Florida scientists would allow relief workers to test water sources that could be contaminated with the cholera…
The enzyme, known as Rad18, detects a protein called DNA polymerase eta (Pol eta) and accompanies it to the sites of sunlight-induced DNA damage, enabling…
Antioxidants are sold over the counter everywhere. They’re added to food, drink and face cream. But according to Prof. Nava Dekel of the Biological Regulation…
Will we soon be plugging our mobile phone into our t-shirt instead of putting in a battery? This vision is not totally out of reach: the first steps in this…
The variant, a change in a single letter of the DNA sequence, impairs channels that control kidney function.”It's not a heart gene,” says Gerald W. Dorn II,…
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