A research team led by Professor Hongzhe Sun from the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong, has published a paper titled "Mitochondrial ATP synthase as a direct molecular target of chromium(III) ...
Biochemistry
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One of the most widely used plastics in the world is polyethylene terephthalate, or PET for short. It is everywhere in our daily lives in the form of reusable PET drink bottles. At the end of the lifecycle of a product containing ...
Biochemistry
Apr 12, 2023
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Many common viruses responsible for childhood illnesses establish a home for life within us. This is evidenced in a new study carried out at the University of Helsinki and published in Nucleic Acids Research on March 23, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 12, 2023
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X-ray microscopes have the advantage of penetrating most substances, so internal organs and skeletons can be observed non-invasively through chest X-rays or CT scans. Recently, studies to increase the resolution of X-ray ...
Optics & Photonics
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They flash as a warning, glow red on standby mode, and light up your dinner table; light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have become indispensable in our daily lives. Somewhat less well-known, but just as ubiquitous, are organic light-emitting ...
Analytical Chemistry
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Using the Tillinghast Reflector Echelle Spectrograph (TRES) and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have detected an M-dwarf companion to ...
Researchers of the Genome Dynamics Project team at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science have revealed a new mechanism controlling cellular proliferation in response to serum, which triggers growth of resting cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 12, 2023
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Contaminated drinking water poses a major threat to our health. However, various pollutants such as pesticides, herbicides, hormones, medicines and other chemical compounds cannot be completely removed from groundwater with ...
Materials Science
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Proteins are components of every cell. How they have changed in the course of evolution for the purpose of taking on new functions in the body, has long been a subject of research. The fact that proteins can emerge practically ...
Evolution
Apr 12, 2023
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They've been called "dream" plastics: polyhydroxyalkanoates, or PHAs. Already the basis of a fledgling industry, they're a class of polymers naturally created by living microorganisms, or synthetically produced from biorenewable ...
Polymers
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