Life Sciences and Chemistry
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New study reveals red grouper to be 'Frank Lloyd Wrights of the sea'
Most abundant along Florida's west coast but also found on watery ledges and in crevices and caverns from North Carolina to Brazil, the red grouper excavates…
Scientists show how brain tumors outsmart drugs
The findings, which appear during the week of January 18 in an online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide both new…
Compounds that help protect nerve cells discovered by Duke team
Misfolded proteins in nerve cells (neurons) are a common factor in all of these diseases. The Duke team has identified many new chemicals that activate a…
Iowa State University researcher discovers Ebola’s deadly secret
A research team led by Gaya Amarasinghe, an assistant professor of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology, had previously solved the structure of a…
Copper-free click chemistry used in mice
Researchers with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have crafted a unique copper-free version…
New theory on the origin of primates
The paper argues that the distributions of the major primate groups are correlated with Mesozoic tectonic features and that their respective ranges are…