Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Supercomputing Research Opens Doors for Drug Discovery

A team led by Jerome Baudry of the University of Tennessee-ORNL Center for Molecular Biophysics adapted a widely used existing software to allow supercomputers…

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Humans Aid Vultures’ Colonization of the Canary Islands

Rosa Agudo worked with a team of researchers from the Doñana Biological Station, Seville, Spain, to investigate genetic and morphological changes between 143…

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Faster Method for Engineering Zinc-Finger Nucleases Unveiled

A team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers has developed a faster way to engineer synthetic enzymes that target specific DNA sequences for…

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Stem Cells Create Complex Intestinal Tissue in Lab Study

In a study posted online Dec. 12 by Nature, scientists from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center say their findings will open the door to…

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Genetic Variants Raise Risk for Common Gynecological Disease

Details of the research, carried out at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of…

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Canadian Scientists Discover Spontaneously Chain-Reaction Molecule

In the burgeoning field of nano-science there are now many ways of 'writing' molecular-scale messages on a surface, one molecule at a time. The trouble is that…

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Tracing Microbes for Personalized Oral Health Insights

Viruses can attack and change the composition of bacterial communities, yet little is known about how this might influence human health. In a study published…

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'Grow your own transplant' may be possible for men with type 1 diabetes

Men with type 1 diabetes may be able to grow their own insulin-producing cells from their testicular tissue, say Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC)…

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Human Stem Cells Transform Into Insulin-Secreting Cells

Insulin-secreting pancreatic islet cells have been generated from human spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) directly isolated from human testicular tissue,…

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Pomegranate Juice Components May Block Cancer Cell Movement

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), have identified components in pomegranate juice that seem to inhibit the movement of cancer cells…

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Hyaluronan: Key to Deep Wound Healing Without Scarring

Blocking fragments of the sugar molecule hyaluronan that triggers inflammation could be the key to robust healing and less scarring in deep wounds, Canadian…

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UVic biomedical engineer 'outsmarts' HIV

New, groundbreaking research by University of Victoria biomedical engineer Stephanie Willerth has significantly advanced the understanding of HIV and how to…

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HOXB7 Gene Linked to Tamoxifen Resistance in Breast Cancer

HOXB7 GENE PROMOTES TAMOXIFEN RESISTANCE (Presentation # PD05-10)Many postmenopausal women with early-stage breast cancers who initially respond well to…

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Circulating Tumor Cells Linked to Poor Breast Cancer Prognosis

Metastatic breast cancer patients whose blood contains circulating tumor cells (CTCs) before or after treatment with high-dose chemotherapy and blood stem cell…

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America’s Emission Trade: Unpacking the China Disparity

Meanwhile, carbon emissions in China have grown dramatically during that same time. EARTH looks at this disparity and asks the difficult questions about who is…

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Pyrroles: Key Innovations in Hemoglobin and Chlorophyll

Pyrroles, which are rings containing one nitrogen and four carbon atoms, are essential components of our red hemoglobin as well as the green chlorophyll in…

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