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Life & Chemistry

Selective Capture of MicroRNAs in Cell-Shuttling Nanovesicles

The role of microRNAs (miRNAs) is fundamental for the correct moment-to-moment adjustment in the expression of target genes. “Before this study, we already…

Environmental Conservation

Emphasizing Livestock’s Role in Curbing Climate Change

A reduction in non-CO2 greenhouse gases will be required to abate climate change, the researchers said. Cutting releases of methane and nitrous oxide, two…

Physics & Astronomy

Birth of black hole kills the radio star

Astronomers led by a Curtin University researcher have discovered a new population of exploding stars that “switch off” their radio transmissions before…

Earth Sciences

Understanding Earthquake and Avalanche Patterns Beyond Scales

Avalanches of snow or earthquakes can be described in other ways than the well-known Gutenberg-Richter scale, which gives a prediction of how likely a big…

Automotive Engineering

New Technology Targets Slick Winter Highways

Officials in four states this winter are deploying hundreds of plows with custom-designed sensors that continually measure road and weather conditions. The new…

Environmental Conservation

UF Research Shows Coral Reefs Worth Saving

In a 13-year study in the Cayman Islands, warm ocean temperatures led to bleaching and infectious disease that reduced live coral cover by more than 40 percent…

Studies and Analyses

Biorefinery Boost: Reviving South Australia’s Forest Industry

VTT proposed seven pathways to raise short-term local production value and establish specialised biorefinery business in the longer term. The South Australian…

Life & Chemistry

Cells Redesign After UV Radiation: New Mapping Insights

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in The Netherlands and United Kingdom, have produced the first map…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s MODIS Captures Stunning Images of Tropical Cyclone Bruce

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument known as MODIS takes amazing visible and infrared images of tropical cyclones, among other things,…

Environmental Conservation

Greek Economic Crisis Triggers Surprising Air Pollution Rise

In the midst of a winter cold snap, a study from researchers in the United States and Greece reveals an overlooked side effect of economic crisis – dangerous…

Earth Sciences

NASA Monitors Heavy Rainfall in Tropical Cyclone Amara

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite can measure rainfall rates from space, and that's what it has been doing over Tropical Cyclone…

Health & Medicine

TB Bacteria Disguise Themselves to Invade Deeper Lung Regions

TB-causing bacteria appear to mask their identity to avoid recognition by infection-killing cells in the upper airways. The bacteria call up more permissive…

Life & Chemistry

Promising H. Pylori Vaccine Advances in Mouse Studies

The investigators constructed a live recombinant bacterial vaccine, expressing the H. pylori antigen, adhesin Hp0410, in the food-grade bacterium,…

Studies and Analyses

More Than Half of Consumers Choose Costly Health Plans

Right now, many consumers are signing up for healthcare via the new health insurance exchanges set up by the federal and state governments. Using simulated…

Studies and Analyses

Meditation Enhances Drug Therapy for Addiction, Study Finds

Levy reports results of his survey of animal and human studies and a computational experiment in a special section on addictive disorders in the current issue…

Environmental Conservation

Telecoupling science shows China’s forest sustainability packs global impact

In this week’s journal Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, MSU’s University Distinguished Professor Jianguo “Jack” Liu dissects the global impact of China’s…

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