Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Danish Researchers Unlock Secrets to Sustainable Weight Loss

With this diet, you can also eat until you are full without counting calories and without gaining weight. Finally, the extensive study concludes that the…

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Understanding How HIV Depletes CD4 T Cells in Human Tissue

“In [infected] primary human tonsils and spleens, there is a profound depletion of CD4 T cells,” said Warner Greene of The Gladstone institute for Virology and…

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How Melanoma Tumors Evade Drug Treatment: Key Insights

The past year has brought to light both the promise and the frustration of developing new drugs to treat melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer. Early…

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How Pathogens Hijack Plant Nutrients: New Research Insights

A research team led by the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology developed a novel trick for identifying how pathogens hijack plant nutrients to…

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E. Coli Successfully Produces Erythromycin A Antibiotic

Researchers at Tufts University School of Engineering have reported the first successful production of the antibiotic erythromycin A, and two variations, using…

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Neuroscientists Discover Faces Can Appear Male or Female

Neuroscientists at MIT and Harvard have made the surprising discovery that the brain sees some faces as male when they appear in one area of a person's field…

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Decoding CD4 T Cell Death in HIV Infection Insights

Scientists at Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology have solved a long-standing mystery about HIV infection–namely how HIV promotes the death of CD4 T…

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Diabetes Drug could work against Alzheimer’s

Metformin, a drug used in type 2-diabetes might have the potential to also act against Alzheimer’s disease. This has been shown in a study from scientists of…

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New Insights on Multiple Sclerosis: Acrolein’s Role and Treatment

The toxin acrolein was elevated by about 60 percent in the spinal cord tissues of mice with a disease similar to multiple sclerosis, said Riyi Shi, a medical…

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Plant-Derived Scavengers Target Nerve Toxins in the Body

Of the many kinds of molecules involved in this lively chemical symposium, acetylcholine is among the most critical, performing a host of functions in the…

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CCNY Chemists Design Molecule that Responds to Stimuli

The finding, reported in the journal “Angewandte Chemie,” points toward the possibility of designing adaptive soft materials in the lab that take their cues…

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All-in-One Coatings: Enhance Automotive Performance and Aesthetics

Coatings functionalize surfaces or protect them from processes such as corrosion, abrasion, and weathering, and may provide an aesthetic appearance—automotive…

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DNA Uncovers One of the World's Rarest Birds

The team, led by Australian Wildlife Conservancy's Dr Stephen Murphy, used DNA from museum specimens up to 160 years old to reveal that populations of ground…

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New Insights on Immune Response Mechanisms in Airway Epithelium

Specifically, the study indicates that a Neisserial outer membrane component appears to play a differential role in the host inflammatory responses via…

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ISU Research Reveals Missing Genes in Six Corn Varieties

Differences in height, skin and eye color of humans, for example, are very noticeable, but are actually the consequences of very small variations in genetic…

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New Gene Discovery Boosts Healthier Food and Biofuel Production

Natalia Dudareva, a distinguished professor of horticulture, and Hiroshi Maeda, a postdoctoral researcher in Dudareva's laboratory, determined that the gene is…

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