Life Sciences and Chemistry

Articles and reports from the Life Sciences and chemistry area deal with applied and basic research into modern biology, chemistry and human medicine.

Valuable information can be found on a range of life sciences fields including bacteriology, biochemistry, bionics, bioinformatics, biophysics, biotechnology, genetics, geobotany, human biology, marine biology, microbiology, molecular biology, cellular biology, zoology, bioinorganic chemistry, microchemistry and environmental chemistry.

The tumour hacker

Vincent Zoete is developing computer tools to fight cancer. The chemist, who heads two groups at the University of Lausanne and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, predicts the effects of…

Study pinpoints origins of creativity in the brain

Have you ever had the solution for a tough problem suddenly hit you when you’re thinking about something entirely different? Creative thought is a hallmark of humanity, but it’s an…

Better together: spatial arrangement of three immune cells is key to attacking tumors

There’s a frustrating fact about today’s immunotherapies for cancer. While sometimes they work beautifully — completely eliminating or greatly reducing cancer in particular patients — other times they don’t work at…

New OpenScope projects aim to pioneer the future of neuroscience

One project will explore how psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in “magic mushrooms,” changes brain activity at a cellular level. How do neurons react to magic mushrooms? What happens in the…

Producing hydrogen and fertilizer at the same time

A research team from the University Alliance Ruhr, Germany, has found a catalyst that can be used to convert ammonia into the energy carrier hydrogen and the fertilizer precursor nitrite….

How Plant Cold Specialists Can Adapt to the Environment

International team of evolutionary biologists investigate genomic underpinnings for the adaptive potential of spoonworts. Plant cold specialists like the spoonworts have adapted well to the cold climates of the Ice…

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