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Parchment has been used for recording historical information since at least the 2nd century BC and makes an important contribution to our nation’s ...
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Nanoparticles have been incorporated in many consumer products, however their safety and toxicity have not been clearly identified. This is made ...
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Huntington’s disease (HD) is a dominantly-inherited neuropsychiatric disorder. Typically the symptoms begin in adulthood, slowly progressing from ...
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During the course of their treatment, around half of cancer patients receive some type of radiation therapy. This therapy is widely used to target ...
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Bacteria are single-celled organisms that inhabit almost every environment on the planet, including the bodies of humans and animals. The cell ...
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A breakthrough in the fight against drug-resistant infections is one step closer following the discovery of the structure of NDM-1: a vicious form ...
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The University of Manchester museum herbarium was founded in 1860 and contains over a million specimens from all over the world, with collections ...
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Fungus-like eukaryotic plant pathogens of the genus Phytophthora are devastating to root crops and vegetables because the effector proteins they ...
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The cornea is the external lens of the eye, responsible for refracting incoming light onto the crystalline lens behind, which in turn focuses it ...
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Just as humans have an ancestry, so too do viruses. But whereas we can use fossils to help identify the creatures that roamed the earth before us, ...
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Elastin is the most abundant protein in mammalian elastic tissues and is responsible for their elastic recoil and resilience. Elastin dominates ...
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Flavopiridol was discovered to have anti-cancer properties in 19921, specifically by binding to cyclin-dependant kinases (CDKs) and inhibiting ...
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Transcriptional repression in eukaryotes requires the recruitment of large protein complexes to gene promoters and enhancers. These complexes ...
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Our indigenous gut microbiota play an important role in maintaining normal health and nutrition. They provide us with traits that the human genome ...
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Lentiviruses are associated with chronic disease states in a variety of mammals. However, until recently it was thought that these pathogens had ...
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The majority of bacterial gene regulators bind as symmetric dimers to palindromic DNA operators. Multimeric forms of proteins, including ...
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There are literally astronomical numbers of bacteriophages on Earth. These are viral parasites of bacteria and as such generate an immense ...
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The intricate wiring of the human brain requires cell surface signalling systems to guide the growing neurites to their correct locations. Indeed, ...
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G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are a large family of proteins that span the cell membrane of eukaryotes and consist of seven transmembrane ...
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Optimizing the electronic and magnetic properties of layered magnetic heterostructures for specific applications remains a challenging task for ...