Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Japanese Researchers Advance Liver Transplantation With iPS Cells

One team found that the technical breakthrough in creating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) from mouse somatic cells (nonsex cells) in vitro had…

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NIH-Backed Study Sequences Lyme Disease Bacteria Genomes

The achievement should lead to a better understanding of how genetic variations among strains may result in different courses of illness in people with Lyme…

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Bacteria in Your Body May Influence Atherosclerosis Risk

The results are to be published in the distinguished journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS.“The causes of atherosclerosis have recently…

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Solving single molecule mobility

Nanotechnologists assemble intricate nanodevices, such as computer chips, molecule by molecule using ‘bottom-up’ techniques that mirror nature. One approach…

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Improving pore 'vision'

A team led by Naoko Imamoto of the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako has uncovered processes governing the formation of functionally important…

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Genetic Test Predicts Early Menopause Impacting Women’s Health

The findings, published today in Human Molecular Genetics, could have considerable impact on women in the UK and other western countries, where many start…

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Yale Researchers Identify Key Genetic Trigger for Depression

“This could be a primary cause, or at least a major contributing factor, to the signaling abnormalities that lead to depression,” said Ronald S. Duman,…

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Mice that 'smell' light could help us better understand olfaction

The work, described this week in the journal Nature Neuroscience, has implications for the future study of smell and of complex perception systems that do not…

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TB Bacteria’s Unique Protein Degradation Uncovered by Scientists

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have discovered a key difference in the way human…

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New Imaging Technique Illuminates Inflammation Insights

Researchers at the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine are using an innovative new imaging technique to study how white blood cells (called neutrophils)…

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Squid Studies Reveal New Insights Into Hearing Mechanisms

In a hangar-like research building at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), biologist T. Aran Mooney is exploring virtually uncharted waters: Can…

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First Babies Born from Genetic Screening Study Before IVF

Two women taking part in the world's first controlled study of a comprehensive genetic screening test before IVF have given birth to healthy babies. The…

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Chemists Transform Used Cooking Oil Into Biodiesel Innovation

Currently a truck takes away all the waste. However, a number of Chemistry Faculty lecturers have demonstrated that this oil can be used and revalued at the…

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T. Rex Diet: What Did These Dinosaurs Really Eat?

While searching through dinosaur fossil collections for another study on dinosaur bones with mammal tooth marks, Yale researcher Nick Longrich discovered a…

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Orchid Mimics Hoverflies With Unique Chemical Tricks

The plant’s flower practices a very special mimicry: It produces three chemical substances that are usually emitted as alarm pheromones among aphids. Hoverfly…

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A healing rose

A rose not just romances, it heals. A rose by any other name will be as sweet, wrote Shakespeare. Ever sensuous and sweet, the splendour of rose is everywhere,…

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