Researchers at the University of Southern California have identified two molecules that may be more effective cancer killers than are currently available on the market.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 6, 2011
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It has baffled humans for millennia: how did life begin on planet Earth? Now, new research from a Texas Tech University paleontologist suggests it may have rained from the skies and started in the bowels of hell.
Space Exploration
Oct 29, 2013
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Scientists are getting closer to directly observing how and why water is essential to life as we know it.
Biochemistry
Jun 20, 2016
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Fifty years after the pioneering discovery that a protein's three-dimensional structure is determined solely by the sequence of its amino acids, an international team of researchers has taken a major step toward fulfilling ...
Biotechnology
Dec 7, 2011
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Discovering and developing drugs can be slow, costly and high-risk, but harnessing advances in artificial intelligence (AI) can help with these processes, say Brock University researchers.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 1, 2023
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Before there was life on Earth, there were molecules. A primordial soup. At some point a few specialized molecules began replicating. This self-replication, scientists agree, kick-started a biochemical process that would ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 13, 2013
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Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed a new quantum computing algorithm that offers a clearer understanding of the quantum-to-classical transition, which could help model systems on the cusp of quantum ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 31, 2019
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA physicists have made nanomechanical measurements of unprecedented resolution on protein molecules.
Nanophysics
Dec 17, 2011
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Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have built a tabletop particle accelerator that can generate energies and speeds previously reached only by major facilities that are hundreds of meters long and cost hundreds ...
General Physics
Jun 20, 2013
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Researchers have designed a molecule that sticks tightly to the coronavirus spike protein, preventing the virus from infecting cells. The molecule might someday be used in an aerosolized drug to treat or prevent COVID-19.
Bio & Medicine
Sep 9, 2020
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