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Protein
Proteins: are essential nutrients for the human body. They are one of the building blocks of body tissue and can also serve as a fuel source. As a fuel, proteins provide as much energy density as carbohydrates: 4 kcal per gram; in contrast, lipids provide 9 kcal per gram.
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JAN 26, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
Peanut oral immunotherapy may help young children who are highly allergic to peanuts become desensitized to their allerg
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JAN 25, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that is characterized by four main symptoms that inc
...
Written By:
J. Bryce Ortiz
JAN 25, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Animal research models are only as effective as their ability to simulate human disease. Depending on the conditio
...
Sponsored By:
ingenious targeting laboratory Ting
JAN 25, 2022
Clinical & Molecular DX
In 1945, Sir Alexander Fleming (the microbiologist who discovered the world's first broadly effective antibio
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
JAN 25, 2022
Immunology
Vaccines have been a hot topic in the headlines—blueprints that train the immune system to target a disease-causin
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
JAN 24, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Most methods used in forensic science have not been independently validated or verified by scientists, but some efforts
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 24, 2022
Health & Medicine
Scientists may have finally figured out a genetic cause of male infertility. Researchers at Newcastle University in the
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel
JAN 20, 2022
Cannabis Sciences
As the pandemic has progressed, multiple variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) have e
...
Written By:
Nadine Husami
JAN 20, 2022
Health & Medicine
After reviewing data, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) concludes there is a likely causal relationship between the UK
...
Written By:
Alexandria Bass
JAN 20, 2022
Immunology
Scientists studying a neglected tropical disease have made a chance discovery—a promising therapeutic targe
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
JAN 20, 2022
Clinical & Molecular DX
Nanoparticles—tiny spheres carrying a biologically-active cargo—have the potential to transform how w
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
JAN 19, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
The CRISPR gene editing tool is often used with an enzyme called Cas9, which targets and cuts genomic DNA. While this te
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 18, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
Asthma is a chronic condition that is characterized by difficulty breathing, coughing, and wheezing which is caused, in
...
Written By:
J. Bryce Ortiz
JAN 18, 2022
Immunology
The Omicron variant was first reported in November 2021. More recently, a surge of infections worldwide has led to wides
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
JAN 13, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
As organisms develop, they have to shed certain cells. Throughout life, damaged cells have to be eliminated. So nature u
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 13, 2022
Health & Medicine
Despite initial fears last November that genetic changes to the Omicron variant might spell disaster for humans, rodent
...
Written By:
Alexandria Bass
JAN 13, 2022
Cancer
The American Cancer Society estimates the lifetime risk of pancreatic cancer at about 1 in 64. Pancreatic duct
...
Written By:
Katie Kokolus
JAN 12, 2022
Health & Medicine
With the pandemic coming up on its 2-year anniversary, the ironic question more people are contemplating with this less
...
Written By:
Alexandria Bass
JAN 11, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
In biology, it's sometimes said that form follows function; the shape of a protein can have a major impact on how it wor
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 07, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have long wondered what makes us human. Our cells express the genes we need to carry out the functions of lif
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 07, 2022
Cancer
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) describes the complex vasculature network that delivers oxygen and nutrients to the brain.
...
Written By:
Katie Kokolus
JAN 07, 2022
Plants & Animals
Breaking heat records have become an increasingly common, and alarming, trend over the past couple decades. Temperatures
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
JAN 07, 2022
Health & Medicine
A recent meta-analysis of research studies published in Toxin Reviews found that cannabis plant absorption of heavy meta
...
Written By:
Kerry Charron
JAN 05, 2022
Clinical & Molecular DX
The SARS-CoV-2 virus that emerged in December 2019 causes the disease COVID-19, a pandemic that has killed over 5 millio
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch