Life Sciences and Chemistry

Articles and reports from the Life Sciences and chemistry area deal with applied and basic research into modern biology, chemistry and human medicine.

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Female Birds – Acting Just Like the Guys – Become Sexual Show Offs in Cooperative Breeding Species

“We've known it happens with females in some specialized cases, but it's probably more widespread than we ever realized before,” said Irby Lovette, the Fuller…

Bacteria Provide Clues to Human Decisions

Their study, published this week in the early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was accomplished when the…

Cut Out the (Estrogen) Middleman

A split-personality chemical, estrogen is thought to protect neural circuits and boost learning and memory, while at the same time increasing cancer risk when…

From fruit fly wings to heart failure. Why Not(ch)?

Almost a century after it was discovered in fruit flies with notches in their wings, the Notch signalling pathway may come to play an important role in the…

Rapid cardiac biomarker testing system developed by Singapore scientists

The silicon-based integrated system's features could help physicians quickly arrive at the right diagnosis for timely medical intervention in patients…

H1N1 influenza adopted novel strategy to move from birds to humans

The 2009 H1N1 influenza virus used a new strategy to cross from birds into humans, a warning that it has more than one trick up its sleeve to jump the species…

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