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Revealing How Copper Amine Oxidase Enzymes Stabilize Radical Intermediates

The human body heals wounds or detoxifies harmful substances like histamine with the help of a group of enzymes called copper amine oxidases.

20 Sep 2023

Study: Swimming and Tubing Can Alter Stream Chemistry and Microbiology

With Labor Day approaching, many people are preparing to go tubing and swimming at local streams and rivers.

19 Sep 2023

Protein Analysis of Ancient Cauldrons Reveals Diet of Caucasus People

Archaeologists have long been drawing conclusions about how ancient tools were used by the people who crafted them based on written records and context clues.

21 Aug 2023

Exploring the Competitive Interactions of Colletotrichum Species in Olive Anthracnose

A study from the Department of Agronomy at the UCO reveals that pathogens, once established, are difficult to dislodge, even by more competitive pathogens, after evaluating the interactions between the main species of Colletotrichum in Spain and Portugal.

7 Jun 2023

Researchers Use the Bionanoprobe to Explore Role of Zinc in Follicle Development

The discovery that zinc is involved in the fertilization process earlier than initially thought was made with the help of the Bionanoprobe, a cutting-edge instrument at Argonne.

18 May 2023

Researchers Discover How Deadly Hospital Pathogen can Survive Harsh Environments

The deadly hospital pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii can live for a year on a hospital wall without food and water. Then, when it infects a vulnerable patient, it resists antibiotics as well as the body's built-in infection-fighting response.

17 May 2023

Speeding Up Forest Restoration Using New Biotechnological Approaches

Investigators from Brazil reveal that Amazonian dark earth (ADE), soils enriched by Amerindian people thousands of years ago, enhances the establishment and growth of seedlings of tree species vital for reforestation.

8 May 2023

Unique approach harnesses plant molecules like chlorophyll to harvest solar energy

Our current solar panels aren't very efficient; they are only able to convert up to about 20 percent of the sun's energy into electricity. As a result, to generate a lot of electricity, the panels require a lot of space-;sometimes leading forests to be cut down or farms to be replaced by solar. If solar panels were more efficient, much smaller panels could make the same amount of electricity, and wouldn't claim as much land.

20 Feb 2023

Researchers discover target enzyme for blast disease

A fungus that plagues rice crops worldwide gains entry to plant cells in a way that leaves it vulnerable to simple chemical blockers, a discovery that could lead to new fungicides to reduce the substantial annual losses of rice and other valuable cereals.

14 Feb 2023

New models provide better understanding of how life originated

The first signs of life emerged on Earth in the form of microbes about four billion years ago. While scientists are still determining exactly when and how these microbes appeared, it's clear that the emergence of life is intricately intertwined with the chemical and physical characteristics of early Earth.

13 Feb 2023

Licorice leaf extract: A potential plant protectant for traditional and organic farming

Pesticides are successful in defending crop yield against plant infections, but the ecological damage to nontarget organisms has led to a struggle between conventional and organic farming methods.

9 Feb 2023

Flexible copper sensor detects heavy metals in sweat

Heavy metals such as lead and cadmium are present in batteries, cosmetics, food and other things that are part of everyday life.

24 Jan 2023

Decades of research on biosolids and its benefits

For more than four decades, biosolids have been applied to land and studied by researchers for many useful purposes.

22 Sep 2022

Detecting multiple food poisoning bacteria based on color differences in scattered light from metals

Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have developed a simple, rapid method to simultaneously identify multiple food poisoning bacteria, based on color differences in the scattered light by nanometer-scaled organic metal nanohybrid structures (NHs) that bind via antibodies to those bacteria.

30 Aug 2022

Copper News and Research

Revealing How Copper Amine Oxidase Enzymes Stabilize Radical Intermediates

Study: Swimming and Tubing Can Alter Stream Chemistry and Microbiology

Protein Analysis of Ancient Cauldrons Reveals Diet of Caucasus People

Exploring the Competitive Interactions of Colletotrichum Species in Olive Anthracnose

Researchers Use the Bionanoprobe to Explore Role of Zinc in Follicle Development

Researchers Discover How Deadly Hospital Pathogen can Survive Harsh Environments

Speeding Up Forest Restoration Using New Biotechnological Approaches

Unique approach harnesses plant molecules like chlorophyll to harvest solar energy

Researchers discover target enzyme for blast disease

New models provide better understanding of how life originated

Licorice leaf extract: A potential plant protectant for traditional and organic farming

Flexible copper sensor detects heavy metals in sweat

Decades of research on biosolids and its benefits

Detecting multiple food poisoning bacteria based on color differences in scattered light from metals

Research highlights the impacts of biomolecules in plants over stress

Producing food without sunlight through artificial photosynthesis

New research identifies a destination for zinc chaperone protein's deliveries

eTesting cannabis for impurities and contaminants

Powerhouse-pruning protein may be a sound target to help trigger new blood vessel growth

Unusual partners aid new blood vessel development

The Last Piece of Our Genome: Sequencing the Y Chromosome

Understanding the Importance of Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences Community

Supporting Informed Decisions on Malaria Biocontrol Interventions

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