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Metabolic Map Shows How Morning and Evening Exercise Affect the Body

Research shows that different health-promoting signaling molecules are produced by the body in an organ-specific manner following exercise depending on the time of day.
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New Research Reinforces Notion That Unstructured Proteins Can Mediate Cellular Processes

Researchers have investigated how genes are accessed when tightly packed away and how these molecules can be broken apart to promote gene expression.
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Structures of Proteins That May Be Responsible for the Origins of Life Discovered

Addressing one of the most profoundly unanswered questions in biology, a Rutgers-led team has discovered the structures of proteins that may be responsible for the origins of life in the primordial soup of ancient Earth.
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Rhesus Macaque Study Makes Strides Towards a Schistosomiasis Vaccine

A research group has discovered the mechanism by which the Rhesus macaque Macaca mulatta naturally develops a lasting immune response against schistosomiasis.
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Exploring How Spatial Structure Influences Cancer Evolution

A computational model is being used to predict how different spatial structures of tumors will impact tumor evolution.
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Unprecedented Cellular Maps of Tissues Enabled by New Tool

A tool, called cell2location, has been developed by researchers and can pinpoint the location of detailed immune cell types in the human gut and lymph node, as well as map the fine-grained structure of the mouse brain.
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Messenger Protein Passes “Notes” From Cell to Cell in Plants

By studying the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, researchers have found that RNA messages need a special protein to escort them where they need to go and without this escort, the plant fails to develop properly.
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Inflammatory Markers Are Conspicuous at an Early Stage of Alzheimer's

Researchers have found that long before the onset of dementia, there is evidence for increased activity of the brain’s immune system.
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Common Consumer Product Chemicals May Disrupt Healthy Pregnancy Hormones

Phthalates – found in many consumer products – may disrupt levels of a pregnancy hormone that promotes the onset of labor.
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Ubiquitin "Supercharger" Discovery May Lead to Neurological Disease Discovery

Researchers have solved the first 3D structure of an enzyme, called RNF216, that controls proteins to signal and communicate with each other in human cells.
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