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Life & Chemistry

Quality Control of Mitochondria: A Defense Against Disease

“PINK1 and parkin, are implicated in selectively targeting dysfunctional components of mitochondria to the lysosome under conditions of excessive oxidative…

Life & Chemistry

Micropredators Influence Deadly Chytrid Disease in Amphibians

An international team of researchers has made important progress in understanding the distribution of the deadly amphibian chytrid pathogen.In some regions,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Tidal Power Potential: Half of Scotland From Pentland Firth Turbines

Researchers have completed the most detailed study yet of how much tidal power could be generated by turbines placed in the Pentland Firth, between mainland…

Physics & Astronomy

Milky Way may have formed 'inside-out': Gaia provides new insight into Galactic evolution

By tracking the fast-produced elements, specifically magnesium in this study, astronomers can determine how rapidly different parts of the Milky Way were…

Health & Medicine

York Scientists Uncover Fiber Secrets in Human Biology

Research at the University of York's Structural Biology Laboratory, in collaboration with groups in Canada, the USA and Sweden, has begun to uncover how our…

Studies and Analyses

Cleveland Clinic identifies mechanism in Alzheimer's-related memory loss

Cleveland Clinic researchers have identified a protein in the brain that plays a critical role in the memory loss seen in Alzheimer's patients, according to a…

Health & Medicine

How Researchers Unraveled Heart Arrhythmia Mechanisms

The findings published this month in the January 19 edition of Nature Medicine outlines the discovery of this fundamental physiological process that…

Earth Sciences

How the Water Cycle Influences Abrupt Climate Change

In a new study published in Nature Geoscience online (January 19, 2014) scientists from the University of Potsdam, Germany and the GFZ German Research Centre…

Life & Chemistry

Decoded: DNA of blood-sucking worm that infects world's poor

The parasitic worm lives in the soil and enters the body through the feet. By feeding on victims' blood, the worms cause anemia and, in children, stunted…

Life & Chemistry

Gut Bacterium Innovation: Boosting Your Daily Fiber Intake

The findings illuminate the specialized roles played by key members of the vast microbial community living in the human gut, and could inform the development…

Health & Medicine

Secondhand Smoke Boosts Asthma Readmission Risks in Kids

The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, raises the possibility that measurement of tobacco exposure could be used in clinical practice to target…

Life & Chemistry

The weaker sex: Male honey bees are more susceptible than females to a widespread parasite

A research team from Bern, Switzerland has found that male European honey bees, or drones, are much more susceptible than female European honey bees, known as…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellite Imagery Shows Some Punch Left in System 94S

NASA's Aqua satellite showed that thunderstorms in the low had the potential for heavy rain as it continues to track over land, and heavy rainfall warnings are…

Process Engineering

High-Quality Whey Proteins: Advancing Food Innovations

In the EU-funded project Whey2Food the University of Hohenheim and the Fraunhofer IGB, together with partners from industry, are investigating how high-quality…

Earth Sciences

Glaciers, Streamflow Changes Are Focus of New Columbia River Study

As the Earth warms, experts know the Columbia will change – they just don't know how much or when.University of Washington environmental engineers are…

Studies and Analyses

Mitigating corrosive effects

One in five electronic-device failures is a result of corrosion. Bonds, the metal connections that enable the current to flow from one component to the next,…

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