Predatory bacterial crowdsourcing
(Phys.org)—Move forward. High-five your neighbor. Turn around. Repeat.
Cell & Microbiology
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Scientists discover new direction in Alzheimer's research
In what they are calling a new direction in the study of Alzheimer's disease, UC Santa Barbara scientists have made an important finding about what happens to brain cells that are destroyed in Alzheimer's disease and related ...
Biochemistry
Jun 6, 2011
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New aging cause revealed by test tube
(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists from The Australian National University have discovered a new way that ageing-related diseases can progress, opening up new preventative and treatment possibilities for conditions such as heart disease ...
Biochemistry
Mar 22, 2011
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Scientists develop powerful new methodology for stabilizing proteins
A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has discovered a new way to stabilize proteins — the workhorse biological macromolecules found in all organisms. Proteins serve as the functional basis of many types ...
Biotechnology
Feb 3, 2011
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In the test tube, teams reconstruct a cancer cell's beginning
What prompts normal cells to transform themselves into cancerous cells? Researchers from Texas institutions, including the UT Health Science Center San Antonio, have identified factors in the very first step of the process ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 21, 2010
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Tiny Test Tube Experiment Shows Reaction Of Melting Materials at the Nano Scale (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have conducted a basic chemistry experiment in what is perhaps the world's smallest test tube, measuring a thousandth the diameter of a human hair.
Nanophysics
Oct 15, 2009
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Bacteria can develop resistance to drugs they haven't encountered before. Scientists figured this out decades ago
Do bacteria mutate randomly, or do they mutate for a purpose? Researchers have been puzzling over this conundrum for over a century.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 23, 2024
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Removing traces of life in lab helps NASA scientists study its origins
A specialized laboratory setup at JPL removes the chemical influence of modern organisms so scientists can study the chemistry that may have led to life's emergence.
Astrobiology
Mar 1, 2023
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Triple study exploits cellular messengers for diagnostics and drug delivery
In a series of three papers on extracellular vesicles (EVs)—particles that cells use to communicate—Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have presented two methods for extracting EVs from blood samples for diagnosing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 19, 2023
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Female urinary tract lactobaccilli can kill pathogenic bacteria
Lactobacilli that live in the human female urinary tract's microbiome are competitive and kill nearby pathogenic bacteria, according to the first study of its kind by a team led by microbiologist Dr. Tanya Sysoeva of The ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 7, 2022
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