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Pivotal Role for Proteins-From Helping Turn Carbs into Energy to Causing Devastating Neuromuscular Disease
Research into how carbohydrates are converted into energy has led to a surprising discovery with implications for the treatment…
Hormone Plays Surprise Role in Fighting Skin Infections
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are molecules produced in the skin to fend off infection-causing microbes. Vitamin D has been credited…
Exotic particles, chilled and trapped, form giant matter wave
Physicists have trapped and cooled exotic particles called excitons so effectively that they condensed and cohered to form a…
This is your brain on sugar: UCLA study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory
A new UCLA rat study is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose slows the…
Alzheimer’s Gene Causes Brain’s Blood Vessels to Leak, Die
The left photo shows destructive proteins (green) lining blood vessels in living brain tissue of mice with the…
Plastic Trash Altering Ocean Habitats, Scripps Study Shows
A 100-fold upsurge in human-produced plastic garbage in the ocean is altering habitats in the marine environment, according to…
UCLA scientists unlock mystery of how ‘handedness’ arises
Colored patches represent parallelogram outlines around pairs of triangles that have formed chiral super-structures. Parallelograms having…
Groundwater pumping leads to sea level rise, cancels out effect of dams
As people pump groundwater for irrigation, drinking water, and industrial uses, the water doesn’t just seep back into the…