Category: 7. Science

Ensuring safe drinking water from natural catchments requires effective risk management and an understanding of protozoan parasite populations in the wildlife found in these areas. Melbourne Water’s chlorination treatment targets bacterial and…

Uranus and Neptune are the two furthest planets in the Solar System and have been visited only once by human spacecraft – by Voyager 2 over 30 years ago – so there is a lot about them that we do not know. One thing we thought we knew,…

The International Space Station (ISS), a landmark example of cooperation in space, will be deorbited by the year 2030. The station was launched in 1998 with a 15-year limit on its initial mission but has helped substantially in the areas of…

A weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field over the South Atlantic Ocean has ballooned in size since 2014, satellite data reveals.

The region, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly, has grown by an area nearly half the size of continental Europe,…

The self assembly of molecules into supramolecular structures responds to a variety of triggers, including light, temperature, pH and chemical stimuli. Now, researchers have discovered that chemical fuels can drive molecules to self assemble…

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Introduction

The solute carrier family 7 member 11 (SLC7A11), also known as xCT, is a member of the solute carrier family 7 and mainly serves as a key subunit of the cystine/glutamic acid transporter, participating in the transport of amino…