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Jul 22, 2020
Chemists make tough plastics, which include epoxies, polyurethanes, and rubber used for tires, recyclable. New method for producing thermoset plastics allows them to be broken down more easily after use.
chemistry
degradable polymers
elastomer
epoxy
jeremiah johnson
mit
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poly-dicyclopentadiene (pdcpd)
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May 29, 2020
MIT chemists have developed a protocol to rapidly produce protein chains up to 164 amino acids long. The flow-based technology could speed up drug development and allow scientists to design novel protein variants incorporating amino acids that don’t occur naturally in cells.
amino acids
artificial proteins
automation
biopharmaceuticals
brad pentelute
chemistry
drug development
flow chemistry
lysozyme
medicinal chemistry
mit
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peptide synthesis
proinsulin
protein drugs
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Dec 20, 2019
Some parents have noticed that their autistic children’s behavioral symptoms diminished after a fever. A new study from MIT and Harvard in mice found that an immune molecule sometimes produced during infection suppresses a small region of the brain’s cortex linked to social behavioral deficits.
autism
brain and cognitive sciences
cytokines
fever
gloria choi
il-17a
immunology
infection
inflammation
mit
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picower institute
s1dz
school of science
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Jun 07, 2019
Neurons’ “antennae” are unexpectedly active in neural computation
brain and cognitive sciences
brain cortex
calcium imaging
cognition
dendrites
lou beaulieu-laroche
mark harnett
mcgovern institute
mit
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Jun 07, 2019
Drug makes tumors more susceptible to chemo
cancer treatments
chemo treatment
chemotherapy
cisplatin
dna repair
drug resistance
graham walker
koch institute
michael hemann
mit
mit biology
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mutagenic dna repair pathway
school of science
translesion synthesis
tumors
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May 21, 2019
Measuring chromosome imbalance could clarify cancer prognosis - A study of prostate cancer finds “aneuploid” tumors are more likely to be lethal than tumors with normal chromosome numbers.
aneuploidy
angelika amon
biology
cancer
chromosome number
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koch institute
mit
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