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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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MAR 28, 2021Plants & Animals
The Venus flytrap is famous for its ability to snap its leaves shut when they're triggered by the touch of an insect. Re ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 28, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
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The genetic code is the basis for life, but in order for an organism to live and survive, it needs the proteins that the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 16, 2021Drug Discovery & Development
How do drugs work? Well, they work when they stick to their target protein. Of course, there is much more complicated pr ...Written By: Nouran AminMAR 14, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
Recent research involving ancient marine animals shows how humans and other animals still carry some of those animals' c ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 14, 2021Immunology
You might have experienced it yourself or met someone that can not eat a certain food or can not take a specific medicat ...Written By: Heba El-wassefMAR 14, 2021Genetics & Genomics
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MAR 28, 2021
Plants & Animals
The Venus flytrap is famous for its ability to snap its leaves shut when they're triggered by the touch of an insect. Re
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 28, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Our teeth do a lot of work, and they may become sensitive to cold as the gums erode due to aging or because they have an
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 25, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
The human genome contains the genes that make us who we are, because of how and when those genes are expressed. Gene exp
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 24, 2021
Cardiology
Scientists have found that it may be possible for people with a rare genetic disorder to prevent fatal strokes by taking
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 23, 2021
Health & Medicine
A pregnant woman infected with the pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 passed the virus on to her unborn child through the placent
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 23, 2021
Immunology
It is estimated that around one in five people infected with SARS-CoV-2 will not show any infection symptoms. Some of th
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
MAR 22, 2021
Microbiology
There are many microbes that live in the human mouth, and while some are harmless, others like Streptococcus mutans are
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 22, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Immunotherapy aims to make a patient's immune cells better at fighting cancer. The immune system has to be used carefull
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 22, 2021
Cancer
New research highlighted recently in Nature explores the ways that bacteria in tumors could be targeted to trigger immun
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 22, 2021
Immunology
Immunologists have identified a mechanism through which an oncogene mutation shields pancreatic tumors from immune cells
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
MAR 21, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Did life originate with RNA? Scientists are still trying to learn more about how the first molecules arose out of primor
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 21, 2021
Microbiology
A mouse model has shown that it's possible to clear a multi-drug resistant gonorrhea with only one dose of antibioti
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 18, 2021
Cardiology
Do you want to know what the best medicine for cardiovascular health is? It isn't some heart-shaped pill with some m
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
MAR 18, 2021
Microbiology
Hepatitis B can cause a long-term and sometimes fatal disease. Princeton University researchers have learned more about
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 18, 2021
Immunology
Immunologists have discovered a mechanism through which immune cells get recruited into breast cancer tumors, and instea
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
MAR 17, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Some brain diseases including mad cow disease and the human version Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Kuru, and fatal fam
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 16, 2021
Clinical & Molecular DX
In 2012, a United Nations report estimated that there are over 316,000 people worldwide over the age of 100. What’
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
MAR 16, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
The genetic code is the basis for life, but in order for an organism to live and survive, it needs the proteins that the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 16, 2021
Drug Discovery & Development
How do drugs work? Well, they work when they stick to their target protein. Of course, there is much more complicated pr
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
MAR 14, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Recent research involving ancient marine animals shows how humans and other animals still carry some of those animals' c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 14, 2021
Immunology
You might have experienced it yourself or met someone that can not eat a certain food or can not take a specific medicat
...
Written By:
Heba El-wassef
MAR 14, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Preterm birth is when a baby is born before the 37th week of pregnancy. The liver, lungs & brain undergo a crucial devel
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 13, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Carbohydrates are essential sources of energy, but sugar molecules serve a variety of other biological functions as well
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 12, 2021
Cardiology
Arteries, which supply the body with oxygen, are normally flexible. But they can become stiff and thick in a condition c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch