Peer-reviewed journal in which the bacterial transistor findings were published.
Researchers from Greifswald and abroad, writing in Nature, question published claims that bacteria or enzymes break down polyethylene and PVC. For recycling research, the claims worth building on are the ones that show a measured signal comes from the polymer itself.
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University of Sydney researchers report that the cancer drug zavondemstat works mainly by blocking the enzyme DHODH, not the KDM4 proteins it was built to hit. The experiments were done in glioblastoma cells, and the drug is already in human trials.
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Montana State geneticist Ed Schmidt spent nine years finding the backup route that lets mammalian cells free cysteine when their main supply systems fail. Whether tumours use it to resist treatment is, for now, a possibility the university raises.
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SMART's antimicrobial resistance group and collaborators report in Nature Chemical Biology that AvaS uses a vitamin B6 derivative to convert lysidine into aminovaleramide cytidine, the first PLP enzyme found working on tRNA.
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A living circuit built from Pantoea agglomerans colonies lasts about three days and computes at diffusion speed. Its authors are explicit that it is not competing with silicon.
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