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Health & Medicine

Novel Studies of Gene Regulation in Brain Development May Mean New Treatment of Mental Disorders

In the paper, published November 22 as an online-first publication in the journal Genes, Brain and Behavior, the researchers identified the hierarchical tree…

Physics & Astronomy

European Research Agencies Create Sustainable Entity for Astroparticle Physics

Over the last six years, ASPERA brought together funding agencies and the physics community to set up coordination for astroparticle physics at the European…

Environmental Conservation

Gulf of Mexico Clean-Up Makes 2010 Spill 52-Times More Toxic

The study found that mixing the dispersant with oil increased toxicity of the mixture up to 52-fold over the oil alone. In toxicity tests in the lab, the…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough Insights into Human Usher Syndrome Uncovered

After years of basic research, scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) are increasingly able to understand the mechanisms underlying the human…

Health & Medicine

Crucial step in AIDS virus maturation simulated for first time

Bioinformaticians at IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) and UPF (Pompeu Fabra University) have used molecular simulation techniques to explain…

Health & Medicine

5 Key Advances in Treating Lung Disease in Infants

“BPD is a lung disease described 45 years ago in which we have made zero progress. And now, with these cord-derived stem cells there is a true potential for a…

Information Technology

Smartphones Could Soon Understand Your Emotions

If you think having your phone identify the nearest bus stop is cool, wait until it identifies your mood.New research by a team of engineers at the University…

Physics & Astronomy

Webcams: Affordable Tools for Precision Laser Tuning

For many applications, lasers need to be precisely tuned to those wavelengths, and the wavelength-measuring instruments can be more expensive than the lasers…

Technology Offerings

Single-Chamber Electrophoresis: A New Approach to Analysis

The new Electrophoresis System allows the analytic separation of proteins and nucleic acids and the following production of purified molecule groups without…

Earth Sciences

Venusian Volcanoes: New Evidence of Active Eruptions

The thick atmosphere of Venus contains over a million times as much sulphur dioxide as Earth’s, where almost all of the pungent, toxic gas is generated by…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Nerve Cell Development in the Eye

Neurobiologists from Heidelberg University’s Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) have gained new insights into how different types of nerve cells are formed in…

Life & Chemistry

High-Speed Measurement of Molecular Motion in Cell Nucleus

Using a new measurement technique, Heidelberg researchers have succeeded in tracking interactions between proteins and DNA in the cell nucleus at a resolution…

Life & Chemistry

How Humidity Affects Fruit Fly Emergence Timing

Fruit flies always emerge from the pupal stage early in the morning when there is high humidity. In the middle of the day, their tender wings would be at too…

Health & Medicine

New Mechanism Discovered in Colon Polyp Transformation

The causes underlying the development of certain types of common cancers have not yet been elucidated. In order to better determine the origin and the sequence…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Insights into Coronary Artery Disease Uncovered

In the largest genetic study of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) to date, researchers from the CARDIoGRAMplusC4D Consortium report the identification of 15…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Create Road Map to Metabolic Reprogramming for Aging

To survey previously uncharted territory, a team of researchers at UW-Madison created an “atlas” that maps more than 1,500 unique landmarks within mitochondria…

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