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A team from Flinders University's Biomedical Nanoengineering Laboratory has found that vanillin has pronounced antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties, making it a good candidate for wound-healing formulations. Their work is published in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics.
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Antimalarial drugs are designed to protect people from malaria, but they may also affect the mosquitoes exposed to them during blood meals.
Mercury may have contracted 10% to 30% more than scientists previously estimated because billions of years of asteroid impacts have obscured some of the geological evidence of its shrinking.
An Idaho State University biologist and her students are exploring new ways to fight autoimmune diseases afflicting millions.
An abundance of complex molecules has been proposed as a universal signature of life.
Arthropods, with harder bodies and better cognition than some other candidates, seem to be the most likely culprit.
Borehole distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) offers a more precise way to measure small earthquakes, if appropriate care is taken.
