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Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Enzyme Potential: The Role of Co-Trainers

Many enzymes work only with a co-trainer, of sorts. Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and the Cluster of Excellence Nanosystems…

Life & Chemistry

Bacterial Colonies Evolve Stunning Diversity in Microbial Life

Microbiologists have long been aware of this phenomenon, and they credit it as a reason microbes have been able to colonize almost every conceivable…

Earth Sciences

Extinct undersea volcanoes squashed under Earth's crust cause tsunami earthquakes, according to new research

Tsunami earthquakes happen at relatively shallow depths in the ocean and are small in terms of their magnitude. However, they create very large tsunamis, with…

Health & Medicine

Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Show Promise Against Aggressive Cancers

Studying triple-negative breast cancer, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that some aggressive tumors rely on an…

Earth Sciences

Ancient Ocean Currents and Their Impact on Ice Ages

Climate scientists have long tried to explain why ice-age cycles became longer and more intense some 900,000 years ago, switching from 41,000-year cycles to…

Medical Engineering

New 3-D Insight into Key Brain Receptor by OHSU Researchers

Researchers with Oregon Health & Science University's Vollum Institute have given science a new and unprecedented 3-D view of one of the most important…

Health & Medicine

Potential Alzheimer's drug prevents abnormal blood clots in the brain

New experiments in Sidney Strickland's Laboratory of Neurobiology and Genetics at Rockefeller University have identified a compound that might halt the…

Environmental Conservation

Innovative Techniques for Effective Environmental Monitoring

Environmental policy must respond to ever-changing conditions on the ground and in the water, but doing so requires a constant flow of information about the…

Earth Sciences

Mysterious features spotted on Titan reveal the moon's seasonal changes, says Stanford scientist

At first glance, Titan has little in common with Earth. The largest moon of Saturn, temperatures on Titan's surface dip nearly 300 F below zero, its seas slosh…

Health & Medicine

Gene Discovery Distinguishes Aggressive Thymoma Variants

Thymoma is a cancer derived from the epithelial cells of the thymus, an organ critical to the lymphatic system where T-cells, or so-called “killer cells,”…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Innovative Energy Transmission for Trains Without Wires

Anyone who frequently uses trains knows this to be true: overhead lines are prone to faults, increasingly leading to delays and cancellations. An alternative…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Inline Inspection Tool Boosts SiC Epiwafer Quality Control

This DLS system enables a more efficient optimization of the production process of SiC epiwafers as well as an inline quality control along the device…

Life & Chemistry

ΣYSTEMS INTEGRATION shows efficiency improvements through automation in microfluidics

Microfluidic components are already in use in analytics, medical diagnostics or chemical manufacturing with great success. Even so, microfluidic hardware…

Life & Chemistry

Artificial Enzyme Mimics Liver Detox Mechanism with Nanoparticles

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany have discovered that molybdenum trioxide nanoparticles oxidize sulfite to sulfate in liver…

Medical Engineering

Duke Engineers Measure Neuron Response to Magnetic Therapy

Engineers and neuroscientists at Duke University have developed a method to measure the response of an individual neuron to transcranial magnetic stimulation…

Life & Chemistry

Marine Bacteria: A Natural Source of Fire Retardants

Among the chemicals produced by the ocean-dwelling microbes, which have been found in habitats as diverse as sea grasses, marine sediments and corals, is a…

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