Life Sciences and Chemistry
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How Plant Cold Specialists Can Adapt to the Environment
International team of evolutionary biologists investigate genomic underpinnings for the adaptive potential of spoonworts. Plant cold specialists like the spoonworts have adapted well to the cold climates of the Ice…
A comprehensive derivative synthesis method for development of new antimicrobial drugs
A method to screen a wide variety of drug candidates without laborious purification steps could advance the fight against drug-resistant bacteria. Efforts to combat the increasing threat of drug-resistant bacteria…
Seeing inside Alzheimer’s disease brain
Scientists investigating Alzheimer’s disease have determined the structure of molecules within a human brain for the very first time. Published today in Nature, the study describes how scientists used cryo-electron…
Cellular inflammation uncovered in rare neurodegenerative condition
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have found that inflammation in an immune cell may be responsible in part for some severe symptoms in a group of rare…
Bringing quantum tools to high school classrooms
UTA-led program gives high school teachers and students access to college concepts. More than 70 high school students and science teachers gathered at Young Middle School in Arlington this summer…
On the way to emission-free mining
… extracting metals with microorganisms. TUBAF develops innovative process for the bioleaching of copper, indium and zinc. Microorganisms work in an underground bioreactor and convert ores or residual materials from…