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Protective Protein Is "Guardian Angel" of the Eye
Scientists have uncovered the precise structure of one of the protective proteins of the eye, and in the process, discovered an important additional function.
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Insecticide From Chinese Herbal Remedy
The insecticidal effects of a common Chinese herbal remedy for parasitic infections may actually stem from microbes living within the plant’s cells and not the plant itself, according to a new study.
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Plants Order in Food Too
Researchers have uncovered how plants have evolved to call for nutrients, using convenient bacteria as a delivery service.
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Tick Tock Let’s Treat the Internal Clock
Researchers from UNIGE and HUG were able to demonstrate the link between disturbances of the circadian clocks in pancreatic cells and type 2 diabetes, then to correct these disturbances.
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Smells Like Air Pollution to Me
Research has pushed science closer to developing an electronic nose for monitoring air quality, detecting safety threats and diagnosing diseases by measuring gases in a patient’s breath.
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Innovative Material Could Help Clean Up Chernobyl and Fukushima
Materials which could be used to help clean-up the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear power stations have been developed by engineers.
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New Design Strategy for Sleeping Sickness Drugs
Scientists have decoded the detailed spatial structure of a vital enzyme of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei, that causes sleeping sickness The result provides a possible blueprint for a drug that specifically blocks this enzyme and thus kills the parasite,
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Capturing How HIV Drugs Work at an Atomic Level
A team of researchers has revealed how a powerful class of HIV drugs interacts with a key piece of HIV machinery. By solving the 3D structures of these drug–target complexes, the researchers showed what makes the therapy so potent.
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Choose Your Weapon in the War on Viruses
Researchers are on the verge of considerably strengthening the therapeutic arsenal against viruses. By modifying sugar molecules, they have succeeded to destroy, by simple contact, many viruses, and in particular those responsible for respiratory infections and herpes infections.
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Are You “At Risk” for Habitually Eating Tofu or Drinking Coffee?
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan and colleagues at Osaka University have found genetic variations in humans related to specific dietary habits.
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