Biological Sciences
Researchers have taken detailed images and measurements of the morphing structure of a brain protein thought to play a role in Parkinson's disease, information that could aid the development of medications to treat the condition.
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Environmental testing had been a sleepy marketplace until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began issuing strict regulations for air, soil, and water in the 1970s. Environmental law spawned thousands of large and small laboratories, many of which had been operating in nonenvironmental industries.
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A conversation with sample extraction experts Dr. Kang Xia and William Ickes
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Researchers in Vienna develop new imaging technique to study the function of entire nervous systems.
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Researchers at the University of Georgia have received a five-year, $10.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support the National Center for Biomedical Glycomics, a consortium of UGA faculty and staff working to develop new technologies for the analysis of glycans.
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Salk and TSRI findings on long-lived proteins may lead to better understanding of the molecular basis of aging.
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VelaLabs, a provider of analytical services to the global biopharmaceutical industry, and Evercyte, a producer of standardized, relevant cell systems, today (Sept. 3) announced that they have entered into a cooperation to commercialize immortalized target cells for the characterization of biosimilars in a GMP environment.
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Darwin referred to the origin of species as "that mystery of mysteries," and even today, more than150 years later, evolutionary biologists cannot fully explain how new animals and plants arise.
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Researchers have created a model that may explain the complexities of the origins of life. Their work, which appears in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, offers new insights into how RNA signaling likely developed into the modern “genetic code.”
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Orbitrap Fusion Tribrid LC-MS technology to power new cellular signaling network.
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An innovative method for stripping greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide from industrial emissions is potentially cheaper and more efficient than current methods, according to a United States patent based on research by Dr. Jason E. Bara, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at The University of Alabama.
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“Helper cells” improve survival rate of transplanted stem cells, mouse study finds.
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