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News articles about "Life sciences"
Living desert underground: In perpetual darkness of limestone cave, surprisingly diverse ecosystem of microbes
Natural products discovery group asks for public's help with citizen science program
Designer piercings: New membrane pores with DNA nanotechnology
A new way to build membrane crossing pores using Lego like DNA building blocks has been developed by scientists at UCL in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Cambridge and the University of Southampton ... - Read MoreGaming technology unravels one of the most complex entities in nature: Computational research unveils secrets in the human carbohydrate bar-code
First step to reduce plant need for nitrogen fertilizer uncovered
Nitrogen fertilizer costs U S farmers approximately $8 billion each year and excess fertilizer can find its way into rivers and streams damaging the delicate water systems Now a discovery by a team of University ... - Read MoreThe Real Reason to Worry About Bees
a condition sometimes termed colony collapse disorder CCD Although honeybees have been doing better in recent years something continues to kill about 1 in every 3 honeybees each year He spoke at a symposium on ... - Read MoreGenome of elastomeric materials creates novel materials
Soil biodiversity will be crucial to future land management and response to climate change
Research by scientists at The University of Manchester and Lancaster shows maintaining healthy soil biodiversity can play an important role in optimising land management programmes to reap benefits from the living soil The findings published ... - Read MoreSeemingly competitive co-catalysts cooperate to accelerate chemical reaction
A new computationally inspired approach has led a team of Boston College chemists to re conceptualize a highly valued catalytic process dramatically increasing the efficiency of a chemical transformation that selectively produces chiral or handed ... - Read MoreWatching molecule movements in live cells
Global warming may affect soil microbe survival, with unknown consequences on soil fertility and erosion
Secrets of biological soil crusts uncovered
Memory-Boosting Chemical Is Identified in Mice
trigger different enzymes to act downstream to switch off eIF2 alpha “Among other things the inactivation of eIF2 alpha is a brake on memory consolidation ” Walter said perhaps an evolutionary consequence of a cell ... - Read MoreCatching individual molecules in a million with optical antennas inside nano-boxes
Metabolic model of E. coli reveals how bacterial growth responds to temperature change
Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a computational model of 1 366 genes in E coli that includes 3D protein structures and has enabled them to compute the temperature sensitivity of ... - Read MoreNew technique to track cell interactions in living bodies developed
Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a new technique to see how different types of cells interact in a living mouse The process uses light emitting proteins that glow when two types ... - Read MoreComparing proteins at a glance: Technique for easy comparisons of proteins in solution
Bold move forward in molecular analyses
Nanoparticles found in everyday items can inhibit fat storage: Gold nanoparticles accelerate aging
Population Boom Poses Interconnected Challenges of Energy, Food, Water
we have to move the technology from the bench to the real world so that solutions see the light of day which the industry speakers in the session can address Regulatory policies have to keep ... - Read MoreGlobal Partners
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