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Science & Tech News tagged with Molecules

'Life Chemical' Detected in Comet
Science & Tech  (tags: NASA, Scientists, Discovery, Comet, Chemical, Building Block, Amino Acid, Life, Organisms, Molecules, Comet Wild-2, 2004, Stardust Probe )

Rosemary
- 133 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Scientists have identified one of the fundamental chemical buildings blocks of life in a comet for the first time, the US space agency (Nasa) reports. Glycine is an amino acid found in proteins, the sophisticated molecules that organisms use > Cont.
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Giving Life A Hand
Science & Tech  (tags: molecules, living organisms, interesting )

Ingrid
- 390 days ago - spacedaily.com
The basic molecules that make up all living things have a predetermined chirality or "handedness," similar to the way people are right- or left-handed.
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Growth Hormone Found to Have New Role in Development of Brain's Smell Center
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, research, study, discovery, humans, axon, brain, cell, chemical, chemoattractant, hormone, molecules, nerve, neurones, odour, olfactory, receptor )

J.
- 642 days ago - berkeley.edu
A Neuroscientist and his colleagues have now found that the hormone, insulin-like growth factor (IGF) plays a critical role in setting up the connections between chemical detectors in the nose and the brain's olfactory centers.
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Hubble Finds First Organic Molecule On Extrasolar Planet
Science & Tech  (tags: research, chemistry, organic, molecules )

Ingrid
- 650 days ago - sciencedaily.com
The tell-tale signature of the molecule methane in the atmosphere of the Jupiter-sized extrasolar planet HD 189733b has been found with the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Gene Therapy: Polymer Translocation Pulled Through a Narrow Pore
Science & Tech  (tags: gene teraphy, molecules, investigation, interesting )

Ingrid
- 656 days ago - sciencedaily.com
When polymeric molecules squeeze through a nanometer-sized pore in membranes, in a process known as translocation, they leave a distinct signature at the pore.
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Tiny DNA Molecules Show Liquid Crystal Phases, Pointing to New Scenario for First Life on Earth
Science & Tech  (tags: molecules, earth, University of Colorado, University of Milan, DNA molecules, life on Earth, physics, genetic, interesting, science, scientists, study, world )

Sky Bird
- 763 days ago - news-medical.net
A team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Milan has discovered some unexpected forms of liquid crystals of ultrashort DNA molecules immersed in water, providing a new scenario for a key step in the emergence of life on...
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Revealing the Workings of 'Mother Nature's Blowtorch'
Science & Tech  (tags: atoms, discovery, energy, environment, molecules, research, science, scientists, study, technology )

J.
- 835 days ago - ns.umich.edu
ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Using atom-level imaging techniques,researchers have revealed important structural details of an enzyme system known as "Mother Nature's blowtorch" for its role in helping the body efficiently break down many drugs and toxins.
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