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This illustration shows how Nicole Hashemi and a team of Iowa State researchers are using a "placenta-on-a-chip" to study the transport of caffeine molecules from a mother to a fetus. Larger image. Illustration by Lasitha Kurukula Arachchi for the Hashemi Lab.

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Placenta-on-a-chip to study caffeine transport from mother to fetus

February 18, 2019

The findings indicated significant changes in the smokers’ red-green and blue-yellow color vision and that heavy smokers had a reduced ability to discriminate contrasts and colors.

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Heavy smoking can damage your vision, study

February 18, 2019

One of the two X-chromosomes is randomly selected and inactivated in the early embryonic stage in females (X-chromosome inactivation). Credit: Katsuhiko Tabuchi, Shinshu University, Japan

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Looking behind a rare brain disease for clues to treat more...

February 18, 2019

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Smoking may limit body’s ability to fight skin cancer

February 18, 2019

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Travelers use hotels’ loyalty programmes to get instant perks and rewards

February 18, 2019

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Axon moves past role as a nerve cell’s foot soldier

Axon moves past role as a nerve cell’s foot soldier

February 16, 2019

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Selenium nanoparticles may act like antibacterial agents

February 13, 2019

In this structural model for a beta-lactamase protein, catalytic residues are shown as spheres with those that are consistently highly frustrated along the entire beta-lactamase family shown in red and those for which the frustrated state is not conserved in yellow. The new work by scientists at Rice University, the University of Buenos Aires and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory suggests these enzymes, which must remain exposed to react with their targets, get a measure of protection from the somewhat-frustrated amino acids around them. The green lines represent minimal frustration, the red lines represent high frustration. The linear charts at top and bottom show the positions of the relevant amino acids on the protein chain and a measure of the conservation of energy over the entire beta-lactamases protein family. Illustration by Maria Feiberger

Working proteins make good use of frustration

February 12, 2019

How to move electrons with light?

February 12, 2019

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Men spend more for Valentine’s Day

February 12, 2019

Dr. Jaime C. Grunlan. Credit: Texas A&M University College of Engineering

Developing a new kind of flame-retardant coating

February 13, 2019

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UC Associate Professor of Marketing Ekant Veer (pictured right), of the College of Business and Law, says the All Right? campaign’s approach to social media ticked all the right boxes. All Right? manager Sue Turner says Facebook has helped to open up and normalise conversations about health and wellbeing.

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Social media can improve lives post-disaster: study

February 18, 2019

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Physicists create a quantum refrigerator that cools with an absence of...

February 16, 2019

Researchers hung men on a cross and added blood in bid to prove Turin Shroud is real

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Researchers hung men on a cross and added blood in bid...

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Pushup capacity may be inexpensive way to assess cardiovascular disease risk

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Pushup capacity may be inexpensive way to assess cardiovascular disease risk

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Axon moves past role as a nerve cell’s foot soldier

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Axon moves past role as a nerve cell’s foot soldier

February 16, 2019

Vertical drugs can protect the child from the dangers of intramayotic infections

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Vertical drugs can protect the child from the dangers of intramayotic...

February 16, 2019

MSU engineers developed and patented a sign language translator technology that – unlike prior mechanisms – is non-invasive and as portable as a tube of Chapstick.

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New Sign Language Translator breaks through sign language barriers

February 15, 2019

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A transformer to drive the transition from AC to DC

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Correction pen is new tool to make cheap diagnostic kits

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