All Life articles – Page 106
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ResearchModelling mastication
3D computational model of human chewing predicts food breakdown and flavour release
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Smartphone app delivers rapid blood group test
Hi-tech device combines with low-cost test for straightforward blood typing
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ResearchPressure-sensitive coating makes swallowed batteries safer
Anode composite could end thousands of life-threatening incidents when children ingest button batteries
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ResearchEngineered metalloenzyme catalyses Friedel–Crafts reaction
Unnatural amino acids help expand catalytic repertoire of enzymes
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ResearchEarth ripe for life soon after formation
Isotope ratios show asteroids delivered water to Earth early on in its history
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ResearchDNA 'barcodes' used to track food
Milk has been successfully tracked as it is turned into cheese and yogurt in an advance that could fight food fraud
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PodcastHuman growth hormone
Marketed as a path to eternal youth but banned in professional sports, Hayley Simon introduces human growth hormone
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ResearchFolding rules used to build unnatural proteins
Understanding protein folding and stability leads to new proteins with hopes of creating structures that can perform novel chemistry
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ResearchCyanide test for cassava
Colour changing system indicates if developing world staple is ok to eat
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NewsUS agency fast-tracks Ebola vaccine development
Health and Human Services invests almost $6 million to ready an Ebola vaccine candidate for clinical trials, meanwhile GSK says its vaccine is progressing at an ‘unprecedented rate’
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ResearchNew light microscope creates 3D movies inside living cells
Researchers have built a microscope that can examine the inner workings of living cells in 3D
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NewsEuropean commission looks for endocrine disruptor definition
Consultation seeks opinion on a scientific description for these chemicals to help inform existing regulation
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ResearchMaking light of food allergies
Pulsed light treatment improves protein digestibility whilst retaining functionality
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ResearchNew test accelerates herpes detection
Peptide-coated superparamagnetic beads latch onto herpes simplex virus-1 in rapid diagnostic assay
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US ramps up rare diseases research
National Institutes of Health spends $29 million to study more than 200 rare diseases
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ResearchSmart bandage gives wound treatment the green light
Easy to use dressing monitors oxygen levels in healing tissue
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ResearchLignin boosts sunscreen performance
Researchers in China and Canada have found that commercial sunscreens with added lignin block more UV rays
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ResearchBRCA2 protein imaged for first time
Insights into DNA repair mechanism could pave the way for new cancer therapies