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Molecules that dominate bacterial secretion created

December 23, 2015
News
Chemists have created molecules that mimic and dominate toxic molecules secreted by bacteria.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Microbiology
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DNA repair studies win Chemistry Nobel Prize

October 7, 2015
News
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for their discoveries in DNA repair.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Chemistry
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Green slime opens the door to the past

September 28, 2015
News
Green slime at the bottom of an Antarctic lake replicates conditions that occurred on Earth 2.8-2.4 billion years ago, a new study finds. A research team at the University of...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology
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New molecule to slow Parkinson’s

March 23, 2015
News
Scientists have designed a peptide that can slow down brain cell damage associated with Parkinson disease. A research team at the University of Bath used a peptide that can bind...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Chemistry
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Snapshot of photosynthesis reveals process

July 22, 2014
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Femtosecond snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation have enabled researchers to understand how the process works. Using the world’s most powerful x-ray laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory researchers were...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Chemistry
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DNA replication fork visualised

July 18, 2014
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An American team have built the first model to decipher what goes on at the ‘replication fork’ during DNA duplication. Rockefeller University researchers led by Michael O’Donnell reconstructed at the...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Developmental Biology
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‘Swiss army knife’ secret of RNA polymerase I

December 19, 2013
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The 3-dimensional structure of a molecular machine scientists have likened to the Swiss army knife has been visualised in high-resolution for the first time.RNA polymerase I incorporates modules which prevent...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Chemistry
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Primordial soup secret revealed

May 10, 2013
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Scientists may have cracked a common conundrum about how objects from space could have kindled life on Earth.The study, led by Leeds University, revealed how a chemical, similar to one...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemistry, Physics
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Molecule to reverse fragile X syndrome

October 15, 2012
News
A compound that shows promise in therapy for one of the diseases closely linked to fragile X syndrome, a genetic condition that is the only known single-gene cause of autism,...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Microbiology
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Mathematicians solve biologists’ problem

September 19, 2012
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Mathematicians may have solved a long-standing biological puzzle that had confounded molecular biologists – how protein production is regulated by microRNAs. Until the 1990s, biologists believed the major role of...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Microbiology
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