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Molecular basis of strawberry aroma
Researchers 'capture' replication of human genome for first time
The Genomic Instability Group led by researcher Óscar Fernández Capetillo at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre CNIO has for the first time obtained a panoramic photo of the proteins that take part in human ... - Read MoreMaterial screening method allows more precise control over stem cells
When it comes to delivering genes to living human tissue the odds of success come down the molecule The entire therapy including the tools used to bring new genetic material into a cell must have ... - Read MoreEnzymes From Horse Feces Could Hold Secrets to Streamlining Biofuel Production
led to the identification of literally hundreds of enzymes capable of breaking through that tough lignin in plant cell walls and the cellulose within The team now is shifting through that bounty to identify the ... - Read MoreHow life may have first emerged on Earth: Foldable proteins in a high-salt environment
Opposites attract: How cells and cell fragments move in electric fields
How microbes survive at bare minimum: Archaea eat protein
Enzymes allow DNA to swap information with exotic molecules
How proteins read meta DNA code
Scientists have accurately calculated the sliding mechanism for deciphering the second genetic code written within the DNA base pair sequence Share This See Also Biochemistry Research Biotechnology Evolutionary Biology Organic Chemistry Biometric Biochemistry Trait biology ... - Read MoreCell on a chip reveals protein behavior: In the future, artifical cells may produce complex protein structures on demand
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Released 3 11 2013 5 00 AM EDTSource Newsroom National University of Singapore more news from this source Mar 11 2013 A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore NUS led by Professor ...
It sounds like science fiction but a team from the University of Exeter with support from Shell has developed a method to make bacteria produce diesel on demand While the technology still faces many significant ...
By identifying two genes required for transforming inorganic into organic mercury which is far more toxic scientists have just taken a significant step toward protecting human health Share This See Also Genes Human Biology Dentistry Chemistry ...
How you get the chameleon of the molecules to settle on a particular look has been discovered by RUB chemists led by Professor Dominik Marx The molecule CH5+ is normally not to be described by ...
The research team led by Academy Research Fellow Heikki M Tuononen has been able to identify the mechanism which enables some non metal compounds to mimic the reactivity of their metal based counterparts Chemical reactivity ...
Blood flows differently than water Anyone who has ever cut themselves knows that blood flows viscously and rather erratically The similarity between blood and ketchup is something not only filmmakers are aware of Experts refer ...
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New sensor developed for methylated DNA
no picCollaborators from Mayo Illinois Alliance for Technology Based Healthcare have developed a new single molecule test for detecting methylated DNA Methylation the addition of a methyl group of molecules to a DNA strand is one ... - Read MoreResearchers develop tools for discovering new species
Biological wires carry electricity thanks to special amino acids
no picSlender bacterial nanowires require certain key amino acids in order to conduct electricity according to a study to be published in mBio® the online open access journal of the American Society for Microbiology on March ... - Read MoreScientists find more precise way to turn off genes, a major goal of treatments that target cancer
no picScientists at UC San Francisco have found a more precise way to turn off genes a finding that will speed research discoveries and biotech advances and may eventually prove useful in reprogramming cells to regenerate ... - Read MoreBiomass analysis tool is faster, more precise
Food Chemistry
Water gives life Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden now show how the cells in our bodies are driven mainly by water power a discovery that in the long run opens the way for a ...
- Competing for milk can be a stressful thing for hyena twin siblings
- 'Seeing' the Flavor of Foods
- Revealing the Scientific Secrets of Why People Can't Stop After Eating One Potato Chip
- High Levels of Lead Detected in Rice Imported From Certain Countries
- Major Symposium on Arsenic Contamination in Food and Water Supplies
Scientific Communication
A new type of soil property maps for Africa has been launched by ISRIC − World Soil Information in Wageningen Netherlands The maps are freely accessible Share This See Also Geography Landslides Acid Rain Global ...
- Collaborations Between Cooks and Chemists Push the Boundaries of Taste
- Global Leaders of $3.5 Trillion Enterprise Gathering for Two Days of Talks
- Communicating the science of the '6x°C egg'
- Communicating the Science of the '6x deg.C Egg' -- and Much More
- Energy and Food Are the Focus of the American Chemical Society Meeting in 'The Big Easy'
Chemical Biology
Spring is like a perhaps hand wrote the poet E E Cummings carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there without breaking anything With the hand of nature trained ...
- Squishy hydrogels may be the ticket for studying biological effects of nanoparticles
- Research On Cilia Heats Up: Implications For Hearing, Vision Loss And Kidney Disease
- Revealing hidden fungal species using DNA: The importance of recognizing cryptic diversity
- New technique to track cell interactions in living bodies developed
- New device can extract human DNA with full genetic data in minutes
Theoretical Chemistry
Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment conducted by Vanderbilt physicist Julia Velkovska and her colleagues ...
- Natural 'keystone molecules' punch over their weight in ecosystems
- Engineers manipulate a buckyball by inserting a single water molecule
- Movement of pyrrole molecules defy 'classical' physics
- Bold move forward in molecular analyses
- Scientists map all possible drug-like chemical compounds: Library of millions of small, carbon-based molecules chemists might synthesize
Natural Product Chemistry
How active a living cell is can be seen by its oxygen consumption The method for determining this consumption has now been significantly improved by chemists in Bochum The problem up to now was that ...
- CO2 Released From Burning Fuel Today Goes Back Into New Fuels Tomorrow
- Carbon dioxide released from burning fuel today goes back into new fuels tomorrow
- New technology measures oxygen in individual red blood cells in real time
- Biobatteries catch breath
- Deforestation triggers carbon collapse of tropical peatlands
Nuclear Chemistry
From brain to heart to stomach the bodies of humans and animals generate weak magnetic fields that a supersensitive detector could use to pinpoint illnesses trace drugs and maybe even read minds Sensors no bigger ...
Chemical Thermodynamics
By means of special metamaterials light and sound can be passed around objects KIT researchers now succeeded in demonstrating that the same materials can also be used to specifically influence the propagation of heat A ...
- Keeping beverages cool in summer: I''s not just the heat, it's the humidity
- Innovative self-cooling, thermoelectric system consumes no electricity
- Research could improve heat dissipation in 3-D systems
- Model Allows Engineers to Test Fuel Systems on Computers
- The dynamic of Spain's population follows the maximum entropy principle
Medicinal Chemistry
It's a familiar scenario a patient receives a medical implant and days later the body attacks the artificial valve or device causing complications to an already compromised system Expensive state of the art medical devices ...
- PCBs are everywhere: Problem exists in industrial city and rural community
- Lucky bacteria strike it rich during formation of treatment-resistant colonies: Research could help in battle against infections that do not respond to powerful drugs
- Microscopic dust particles found in underground railways may pose health risk
- Special E. coli bacteria produce diesel on demand
- Pollution plumes in Paris air are richer in gaseous aromatic compounds than in Los Angeles
Synthetic chemistry
Most Americans want the U S to place more emphasis on developing solar power recent polls suggest A major impediment however is the cost to manufacture install and maintain solar panels Simply put most people ...
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- Reading rock to understand how climate change unfolds
- Add boron for better batteries
- X-ray tomography of living frog embryo
- World's smallest liquid droplets ever made in the lab, experiment suggests
- Team wins Cubesat berth to gather Earth energy imbalance measurements
- Research into carbon storage in Arctic tundra reveals unexpected insight into ecosystem resiliency
- Beautiful 'flowers' self-assemble in a beaker
- Artificial forest for solar water-splitting: First fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem
- Carbon in a twirl: The science behind a self-assembled nano-carbon helix
- New insights into how materials transfer heat could lead to improved electronics
- DNA-guided assembly yields novel ribbon-like nanostructures
- Groundwater unaffected by shale gas production in Arkansas
- Fall warming on Antarctic Peninsula driven by tropically forced circulation
- Billion-year-old water could hold clues to life on Earth and Mars
- Nanoscavengers could usher in next generation water purification
- Natural 'keystone molecules' punch over their weight in ecosystems
- Physicists light 'magnetic fire' to reveal energy's path
- First precise MEMS output measurement technique unveiled
- Solar panels as inexpensive as paint?
- Chemists demonstrate nanoscale alloys so bright they could have potential medical applications
- New uses for tiny carbon nanotubes: Adding ionic liquid to nanotube films could build smaller gadgets
- Significant improvement in performance of solar-powered hydrogen generation
- Electronics comes to paper: Paper, being light and foldable, works well for electrically conducting structures
- Obtaining polymers with à la carte optical and electrical properties
- Friction in the nano-world: Physicists discover a new kind of friction
- Cotton offers a new ecologically friendly way to clean up oil spills
- Observation of second sound in a quantum gas
- Better dyes for imaging technology
- Oxygen consumption of individual cells measured: Scanning electrochemical microscopy decisively optimized
- Molecular basis of strawberry aroma
- Water governs cell movement: Aquaporins play key role, new research finds
- Engineered biomaterial could improve success of medical implants
- Squishy hydrogels may be the ticket for studying biological effects of nanoparticles
- Low-Grade Cotton Offers More Ecologically-Friendly Way to Clean Oil Spills
- Zinc: The Goldilocks Metal for Bioabsorbable Stents?
- Research On Cilia Heats Up: Implications For Hearing, Vision Loss And Kidney Disease
- Revealing hidden fungal species using DNA: The importance of recognizing cryptic diversity
- New magnetic graphene may revolutionize electronics
- Flawed diamonds promise sensory perfection: Electron spin extended for incredibly tiny magnetic detectors
- Perfectly doped quantum dots yield 'colors to dye for'
- New Test for H7N9 Bird Flu in China May Help Slow Outbreak, Prevent Pandemic
- Loss of eastern hemlock will affect forest water use
- Dust in the clouds: Cirrus clouds form around mineral dust and metallic particles
- New technique to improve quality control of lithium-ion batteries
- Scientists demonstrate pear shaped atomic nuclei
- New advance in biofuel production
- Heady mathematics: Describing popping bubbles in a foam
- PCBs are everywhere: Problem exists in industrial city and rural community
- Elevated cadmium levels linked to disease: Men especially affected
- 'Power plants': How to harvest electricity directly from plants
- Geologists study mystery of 'eternal flames'
- Setting the standard for sustainable bioenergy crops
- PCB concentrations same in urban and rural areas
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