A study conducted by researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (Centro Nacional de Investigadores Oncológicas) (CNIO), shows that elimination of c-RAF by genetic…
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In agriculture, nitrogen (N) is one of the most important nutrients to improve plant growth and is applied in the form of fertilizer. Plants can…
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The advent of newspace and commercial space (SpaceX, Blue Origin, etc.) in the early 2000s has brought about the resurgence of the decades-old concept of…
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More than 3000 planets outside our Solar system have been discovered. Around 20 of them are “Goldilocks planets,” planets that orbit the region surrounding a…
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Coal dust pneumoconiosis is the number one killer of coal miners in China. According to the National Occupational Disease Report released by the National Health…
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Among the asteroids, small worlds orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, we find those genetically related to each other. They are members of the…
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Cryobiology is the study of life at subzero temperatures. But our interest in it is other than creating new lifestyles for survival in glacial environments….
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Family feuds, sibling squabbles, and rows with relatives. Sound familiar? We all know that families can be the source of great conflict as well as…
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Deposition of amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques in the brain is the most acknowledged feature of Alzheimer’s disease. Despite decades of research, debate persists over the…
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The placebo effect describes the improvement of symptoms in a clinical trial of a new therapy, e.g. a new drug, where some patients receive an…
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As a family of epigenetic enzymes, histone deacetylases (HDACs) can catalyze the removal of an acetyl group from N-acetyl lysine residues of histones and other…
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