Peptides Can Form Without Amino Acids

Medicine & Technology Jul 16, 2019

The results of the study may also be useful to the field of synthetic chemistry, as amide bond formation is essential for many commercially critical synthetic materials, bioactive compounds, and pharmaceuticals

Study into Fungal Infection Shows Genetic Susceptibility in Hmong

Jul 16, 2019

Researchers discovered that Asians included those with a disappropriate danger of developing blastomycosis infections relative to other groups in the U.S. and they ruled out recreation and gardening practices

Study Identified a Great Way to Know How Much Water Snowpacks Hold

Jul 16, 2019

With the use of a database of snow pillow measurements, the team was able to validate the model, a snow pillow measures snow-water equivalents through the pressure they exerted by the snow on top of it, and also as a pair of large independent data sets, one from western North America, the other from the northeastern United States

Global Farming Trends Threaten Food Security, Study Says

Jul 13, 2019

The team advocate for a trend reversal, that is, care should be taken to diversify agriculture worldwide and make it more ecological

The First Genetic Evidence that Insects Experience Chronic Pain Revealed

Jul 13, 2019

The new research provides the first genetic evidence of what causes chronic pain in Drosophila, fruit flies, and there is good evidence that the same changes also drive chronic pain in humans

C. difficile Persists on Surgical Gowns, Stainless Steels and Resists Hospital Disinfectant

Jul 13, 2019

This pathogen commonly affects older adults in hospitals and long-term care facilities

Shifting to Renewable Energy Can Drive up Energy Poverty, Study Says

Jul 13, 2019

In nations like the United States where fossil fuel energy is substituted for renewable energy as a way to reduce carbon emissions, it comes at the cost of increased inequality

Researchers Discover New Potential Target in Brain Cancer

Jul 12, 2019

The team discovered that inhibiting ID1 slows the progression of tumors in glioblastoma, breast adenocarcinoma, and melanoma. In human tissue, researchers found that the protein caused cells to be more resistant to chemotherapy treatment in glioblastoma

Paleontologists Discover New Specimen of Lizard in Stomach of Microraptor

Jul 12, 2019

Nearly completed and articulated the lizard shows that it was swallowed whole and head first, meaning that Microraptor fed like to living predatory birds and lizards

Researchers Create New AI Tool for Detecting Unfair Discrimination

Jul 11, 2019

The researchers created an AI tool for detecting discrimination concerning a protected attribute such as gender or race by human decision makers or AI systems that are based on the concept of causality in which one thing, a cause, causes another thing, an effect

Scientists Created a Pair of Autofocal Lenses to Correct Vision of People with Presbyopia

Jul 10, 2019

The prototype from the Stanford works much like the lens of the eye, with fluid-filled lenses that bulge and thin as the field of vision changes

Vitamin C is Vital to Protection of Exciting New Nanomaterial

Jul 10, 2019

Self-stable MXenes become possible, and engineering-grade MXene-based materials can become a practical reality

Clinical Analysis Reveals drug Slows down Respiratory Decline

Jul 10, 2019

The research demonstrates that eteplirsen may slow the rate of respiratory decline and therefore may delay time to milestones of decline

Researchers Find Treatment Targeted at Reducing Symptoms of Psychosis

Jul 10, 2019

The compelling aspect is that this CNV can be linked to pathophysiology, and, as the new study shows, to treatment

Scientists Discover New Virus-Killing Protein to Destroy Viruses Related to HIV

Jul 09, 2019

The team found that ZAP no longer inhibit both CpG-enriched HIV and a mouse leukemia virus that has many CpGs