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Scientists block Ebola infection in cell-culture experiments

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have discovered two biochemical pathways that the Ebola virus relies on to infect cells. Using substances that block the activation o...

Life Sciences |

DFG Establishes Eight New Collaborative Research Centres

The themes of the newly approved Collaborative Research Centres include the development of innovative spaceship drive systems, overcoming treatment resistance in tumours and tackling anxiety disorders...

Science Education |

Single-celled bacterium works 24-7

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have gained the first detailed insight into the way circadian rhythms govern global gene expression in Cyanothece, a type of cyanobacterium (blue-gree...

Life Sciences |

Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor

What is the genetic mutation“Originally, we all had brown eyes”, said Professor Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology. “But a genetic mutation affecting the OCA2 gene in...

Life Sciences |

Mobile Metal Atoms

Mobile phones, notebook computers, iPods—the boom in portable computing and communications devices is dependent on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to deliver power. These batteries offer the highes...

Life Sciences |

New joint replacement material developed at MGH put to first clinical use

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) surgeons have performed the first total hip replacement using a joint socket lined with a novel material invented at the MGH. An advance over first-generation high...

Materials Sciences |

Oceans are a major gene swap-meet for plankton

New evidence from open sea experiments shows there’s a constant shuffling of genetic endowments going on among tiny plankton, and the "coinage" they use seems to be a flood of viruse...

Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |

A novel virus for croup

A forthcoming paper in the international, open-access journal PLoS Medicine makes the strongest association yet between a newly identified virus and the pediatric respiratory disease com...

Life Sciences |

European mines pose a fluid problem

European scientists are formulating conclusions for mine-water management right now Next to mine waste, water contamination by mines poses a problem to which far less attention...

Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |

Key to the Nature of Earth’s Mysterious Core Found Beneath Arctic Ice

In the high Canadian Arctic, researchers at the University of Rochester have stripped away some of the mystery surrounding the powerhouse that drives the Earth’s magnetic field. The resear...

Earth Sciences |