While toxic in high concentrations, copper is essential to life as a trace element. Many tumors require significantly more copper than healthy cells for growth—a possible new point of attack for ...

Copper is an essential micronutrient that serves as a cofactor for numerous enzymes, playing a vital role in processes ranging from cellular respiration to antioxidant defence. Eukaryotic cells employ ...

Researchers led by the Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology in Kenya have designed a solar cell with an absorber based on copper antimony sulfide (CuSbS 2), which is a non-toxic and ...

A combination of two supplements — resveratrol and copper — reduced the aggressiveness of tumors in glioblastoma, a type of ...

Studies in the roundworm model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, headed by scientists at Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine and FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute, have ...

Chinese researchers have developed a new solar cell with a planar n-i-p structure and an indium tin oxide (ITO) substrate. It also has a tin(IV) oxide (SnO2) buffer layer, a perovskite layer, a hole ...

Scientists mapped where drugs bind inside the body, cell by cell, to better understand benefits and side effects.

Engineering researchers at the University of Toronto have designed a new way to recycle steel that addresses copper and carbon impurities, according to a report by Safa Jinje for UofT Engineering News ...