Articles for Molecules

Life on Mars? Curiosity rover makes big discovery on Red Planet
3 days, 14 hours ago

Life on Mars? Curiosity rover makes big discovery on Red Planet

India Today  

Hunting for life in the desolate world of Mars, Nasa's Curiosity rover might have hit upon a jackpot. “Our study proves that, even today, by analyzing Mars samples we could detect chemical signatures of past life, if it ever existed on Mars," Caroline Freissinet, the lead study author said in a statement. Curiosity scientists had previously discovered small, simple organic …

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Protein therapeutics in healthcare: current and future trends
1 month ago

Protein therapeutics in healthcare: current and future trends

The Hindu  

Therapeutic proteins are increasingly becoming an indispensable part of healthcare, with their applications found in treating both infectious diseases, and non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer. Six decades later, in 1982, the first biosynthetic insulin produced by recombinant DNA technology was granted approval by the United States’ Food and Drug Administration and heralded a new era in protein therapeutics. …

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How will Nasa’s SPHEREx telescope change our understanding of the cosmos?
1 month ago

How will Nasa’s SPHEREx telescope change our understanding of the cosmos?

Firstpost  

Nasa’s SPHEREx is set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on February 28. It will investigate cosmic inflation, the distribution of biogenic molecules, and the role of interstellar ice in planetary formation Nasa’s SPHEREx, a space telescope, is situated on a work stand ahead of prelaunch operations at the Astrotech Processing Facility at …

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NASA’s new telescope will create the ‘most colourful’ map of the cosmos ever made
1 month ago

NASA’s new telescope will create the ‘most colourful’ map of the cosmos ever made

The Hindu  

NASA will soon launch a new telescope which it says will create the “most colourful” map of the cosmos ever made. The mission will complement the work being done by other infrared telescopes in space, such as the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope. For example, the sky is more than 15 million times larger than what the …

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NASA's new telescope to create multi-spectral map of cosmos, surpassing all previous efforts
1 month ago

NASA's new telescope to create multi-spectral map of cosmos, surpassing all previous efforts

India TV News  

NASA's new telescope to create multi-spectral map of cosmos, surpassing all previous efforts NASA's SPHEREx telescope will capture the entire sky and generate colourful images that are currently impossible with existing telescopes. This innovative approach will provide insights into the formation of the universe, the evolution of galaxies across cosmic history, and help locate water and life-sustaining molecules within our …

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Scientists develop 3D microscope to create map of all molecules in a cell
1 month ago

Scientists develop 3D microscope to create map of all molecules in a cell

India Today  

A team led by Indian scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory have developed a hybrid microscope capable of simultaneously imaging the full 3D orientation and position of molecules, such as labeled proteins inside cells. This innovative tool combines polarised fluorescence technology with a dual-view light sheet microscope, allowing researchers to capture detailed molecular interactions in unprecedented clarity. The microscope's ability …

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New blood test can help identify children who have an increased risk of diabetes: Study
1 month, 1 week ago

New blood test can help identify children who have an increased risk of diabetes: Study

India TV News  

New blood test can help identify children who have an increased risk of diabetes: Study A study from King's College London says that researchers have found a novel link between lipids and disorders affecting children's metabolism. Scientists have developed a blood test that uses lipids to identify children who are more susceptible to obesity-related problems, such as type 2 diabetes, …

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A Nose-Computer Interface Could Turn Dogs Into Super Detectors
55 years, 2 months ago

A Nose-Computer Interface Could Turn Dogs Into Super Detectors

Wired  

So far the array has been tested in rats, with a version for dogs coming later, Lavella says. In a demo video viewed exclusively by WIRED, a Canaery scientist uses a wand to capture an air sample from four different petri dishes, each containing a different odorant. The current array that’s implanted in the demo rat has 128 electrodes that …

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'Skeletal editing' promises new, personalised drugs at fraction of cost — an Indian is pioneering it
1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Skeletal editing' promises new, personalised drugs at fraction of cost — an Indian is pioneering it

Firstpost  

At the University of Oklahoma, Prof. Indrajeet Sharma is leading a team of scientists that is working on a ‘skeletal editing’ technique that allows repurposing of existing drugs to treat different conditions with the insertion of nitrogen into drug molecules, potentially bringing down the cost of drugs for patients Prof. Indrajeet Sharma along with his team at the 'Sharma Laboratory' …

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Is AI boosting the threat posed by chemical weapons like those used in Syria?
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Is AI boosting the threat posed by chemical weapons like those used in Syria?

Firstpost  

AI systems can dramatically reduce the technical expertise required to develop chemical agents used in chemical weapons of mass destruction. potentially toxic molecules could be readily identified using AI The development of chemical weapons could be made much easier because of AI. At a time when the global norm against use of chemical weapons appears to be eroding, AI’s ability …

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Did life originate in Bennu asteroid? What scientists say
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Did life originate in Bennu asteroid? What scientists say

Firstpost  

A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. A team of scientists reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of organic molecules, including many crucial building blocks of life. A …

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Building blocks of life discovered in dust and soil from asteroid Bennu
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Building blocks of life discovered in dust and soil from asteroid Bennu

India Today  

Scientists have discovered chemical building blocks of life in rocks and soil samples from asteroid Bennu. Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding of what ingredients in our solar system existed before life started on Earth,” Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission at Nasa said. One, in the journal …

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The hunt for ‘dark’ oxygen and why it might be more common than first thought
2 months, 1 week ago

The hunt for ‘dark’ oxygen and why it might be more common than first thought

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Andrew Sweetman, a professor at the UK’s Scottish Association for Marine Science who was behind the find, is embarking on a three-year project to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. “Our discovery of dark oxygen was a paradigm shift in our understanding of the deep sea and potentially life on Earth, …

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An Entire Book Was Written in DNA—and You Can Buy It for $60
55 years, 2 months ago

An Entire Book Was Written in DNA—and You Can Buy It for $60

Wired  

As the rate of humanity’s data creation increases exponentially with the rise of AI, scientists have been interested in DNA as a way to store digital information. To encode the book in DNA, Asimov Press worked with Boston-based company Catalog, which created approximately 500,000 unique DNA molecules to encode the 240 pages in the book, representing 481,280 bytes of data. …

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Digital smell has arrived. Are we ready for Stinkygram?
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Digital smell has arrived. Are we ready for Stinkygram?

Salon  

Some research suggests that “olfactory training” — practicing to improve your olfaction, or sense of smell — can actually improve your cognitive abilities. There’s nerves that go through porous holes and become our sense of smell, and so molecules physically are touching your brain,” Alex Wiltschko, a neuroscientist who worked at Google Brain, using machine learning to create a map …

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The crackling physics of cooking tadka
2 months, 4 weeks ago

The crackling physics of cooking tadka

The Hindu  

Cooking is often called an art, and just like art can be incomprehensible at times, so can exotic cooking be inedible. They said a curry couldn’t really be a curry if its tadka had been cooked in water rather than in oil. Oil and water In most Indian curry preparations, the tadka is the first step: in a bit of …

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The Universe Is Teeming With Complex Organic Molecules
3 months ago

The Universe Is Teeming With Complex Organic Molecules

Wired  

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside a dusty, icy lump the size of a mountain. They’re often called the building blocks of life, and for good reason: Carbon atoms can chemically bond to four other atoms and easily form long, stable chains that serve …

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Nobel Prize-winning scientist reveals the gruesome way deadly 'mirror bacteria' could take over the human body - as scientists call for an urgent halt on all research on it
3 months, 1 week ago

Nobel Prize-winning scientist reveals the gruesome way deadly 'mirror bacteria' could take over the human body - as scientists call for an urgent halt on all research on it

Daily Mail  

The idea of a deadly artificial bacteria taking over the human body might sound like something from the next season of The Last of Us. It might sound like something out of The Last of Us but scientists now warn that a deadly 'mirror bacteria' could take over the human body A Nobel Prize-winning scientist has revealed how deadly 'mirror …

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Mirror bacteria may constitute ‘radical departure from known life,’ scientists warn
3 months, 1 week ago

Mirror bacteria may constitute ‘radical departure from known life,’ scientists warn

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. While the science and technology necessary to create mirror bacteria in a laboratory is a decade or more away, the scientists argued that the possibly lethal risks posed by this new field of research are “unprecedented” and “overlooked.” “Driven by curiosity and plausible applications, some researchers had begun work toward creating lifeforms …

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What is 'Mirror Life' bacteria? Why are scientists worried about it?
3 months, 2 weeks ago

What is 'Mirror Life' bacteria? Why are scientists worried about it?

Firstpost  

Scientists believe that mirror bacteria constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature could put life on Earth at an ‘unprecedented risk’. The international group of Nobel laureates and other experts warned about this lab-grown bacteria in the journal Science An evolutionary biologist says mirror bacteria would likely evade many human, animal and plant immune system responses and in …

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Scientists issue an urgent warning over lab-made 'mirror bacteria' that could wipe out mankind
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Scientists issue an urgent warning over lab-made 'mirror bacteria' that could wipe out mankind

Daily Mail  

Leading scientists have issued an urgent warning over the 'unprecedented' risk posed by a lab-made life which could wipe out mankind. Co-author Professor Gregory Winter, a Nobel prize-winning biologist from the University of Cambridge, told MailOnline: 'The risk of mirror life, in particular mirror bacteria, is that living organisms would not recognise their mirror counterparts as “foreign” and would not …

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Lab-made ‘mirror bacteria’ could endanger all life on earth, scientists warn
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Lab-made ‘mirror bacteria’ could endanger all life on earth, scientists warn

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy “Mirror bacteria” made in a lab could endanger all life on …

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Indian researchers develop AI-based platform to identify age-defying molecules rapidly
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Indian researchers develop AI-based platform to identify age-defying molecules rapidly

The Hindu  

Longevity has always been the Holy Grail of medicine, and extending life beyond its conceivable end has driven kings, researchers and pharma companies alike through a roller-coaster ride that invariably stops at ground level, no wonder the search continues. Researchers at IIIT-Delhi have developed AgeXtend as a tool to efficiently cut down the time taken to identify viable molecules with …

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Indian AI screens 1.1 billion molecules, makes anti-ageing breakthrough
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Indian AI screens 1.1 billion molecules, makes anti-ageing breakthrough

India Today  

Researchers at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi have introduced AgeXtend, an artificial intelligence -powered platform designed to discover molecules that could slow down ageing and promote healthier lives. The researchers tested AgeXtend by excluding well-known compounds like metformin and taurine, molecules already known to extend lifespan, and found that the platform could still predict their benefits. The study also …

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