Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Small Particles, Big Impact: Nanoparticles in Odor Control

Their research found that a deodorant made from nanoparticles — hundreds of times smaller than peach fuzz — eliminates odors up to twice as effectively as…

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Cone of poison: The secret behind the cone snail's venom pump

The creatures, called cone snails, use a highly specialized structure that instantly pumps the paralyzing venom through the tooth and into its target. Their…

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Genetic Cancer Risks: Insights from Dying Patients’ Knowledge

The research, “Exploring Hereditary Cancer Among Dying Cancer Patients—A Cross-Sectional Study of Hereditary Risk and Perceived Awareness of DNA Testing and…

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EMBO Honors 63 Researchers for Life Sciences Innovation

“EMBO Members are the basis for the organization’s international reputation and our most valuable asset,” said Maria Leptin, EMBO Director. “We welcome this…

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Scented Consumer Products Shown to Emit Many Unlisted Chemicals

A study led by the University of Washington discovered that 25 commonly used scented products emit an average of 17 chemicals each. Of the 133 different…

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Nanotechnology Enhances Early Arthritis Diagnosis and Treatment

To foster research in this area, the European Commission is funding the collaborative project “Development of Novel Nanotechnology Based Diagnosed Systems for…

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Haptoglobin: Early Biomarker for Virus-Induced Diabetes in Rats

In addition to genetic susceptibility, it is generally accepted that environmental factors play important roles in triggering disease, with virus infection…

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Study Identifies Key Molecules In Multiple Myeloma

The findings might offer a new strategy for treating this disease and other blood cancers, according to researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive…

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Newfoundland Researchers Decode Gene Linked to Sudden Cardiac Death

As a result, they have developed a unique prevention program in which people with no symptoms, but with a suspect gene and a family history, are being…

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Modern humans emerged far earlier than previously thought

The research, based at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, was published Oct. 25 in the online early edition of the…

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Listeria clever at finding its way into bloodstream, causing sickness

Arun Bhunia, a professor of food science, and Kristin Burkholder, a former Purdue graduate student who is now a postdoctoral researcher in microbiology and…

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Researchers find a stable way to store the sun's heat

Researchers at MIT have revealed exactly how a molecule called fulvalene diruthenium, which was discovered in 1996, works to store and release heat on demand….

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MicroRNAs dictate the Epstein-Barr virus' elaborate waiting game, cancer formation

In the current issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, scientists at The Wistar Institute describe how viral microRNA – small segments of RNA that…

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Genetic markers offer new clues about how malaria mosquitoes evade eradication

The SNP array’s snapshot of the Anopheles gambiae genome can be used by scientists worldwide to advance public health efforts to contain and eliminate the…

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Penn Study Identifies Molecular Guardian of Cell's RNA

One of those processes is called splicing, a mechanism by which non-coding gene sequences are removed and the remaining protein-coding sequences are joined…

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Mouse Brain Imaging Achieves Unmatched Detail in Research

In a typical clinical MRI scan, each pixel in the image represents a cube of tissue, called a voxel, which is typically 1x1x3 millimeters. “The atlas images,…

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