Galantamine is a common medication used by people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia around the world to treat their symptoms. Unfortunately, synthesizing the active compounds in a lab at the scale needed ...
Biotechnology
Mar 14, 2024
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The diel cycle is one of the most common periodic patterns in marine ecosystems. Previously, the diel rhythm changes of marine bacterioplankton have often been attributed to factors like bacterial light-dependent physiological ...
Ecology
Dec 21, 2023
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A new liquid metal combination is shaping up as a potential secret weapon in the global fight against antimicrobial resistance, which is already rendering some antibiotic medications powerless against 'superbugs'.
Bio & Medicine
Aug 4, 2023
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Researchers have developed a new tool that tracks the monthly changes in Wikipedia page views for thousands of species. The Species Awareness Index (SAI) is designed to provide a real-time measure of changing interest in ...
Ecology
May 4, 2023
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Could patients in the future simply ingest a diagnostic probiotic based on programmed ribonucleic acids to analyze their intestinal health from individual cells? Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 10, 2023
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Our kidney filters 180 liters of blood every day and retains nutrients through a process called endocytosis and through active transport in the kidney cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 2, 2022
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The human immune system is a complex network of organs, cells and proteins that defend the body against infections and diseases. While our bodies work constantly to ensure invading infections don't breach the defenses, viruses ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 24, 2022
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Scientists at the Babraham Institute have shown that two RNA binding proteins hold the key to a stronger immune response to influenza in mice. Their findings, published today in Nature Communications, reveal that the absence ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 27, 2022
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Many of the world's most common or deadly human pathogens are RNA-based viruses—Ebola, Zika and flu, for example—and most have no FDA-approved treatments. A team led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 10, 2019
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Researchers at IBS (CEA/CNRS/Joseph Fourier University) have succeeded for the first time in observing, on an atomic scale, the path taken and the successive changes in form undergone by a disordered vital protein, from its ...
Biochemistry
Feb 3, 2015
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