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Life & Chemistry

New Role of β-Catenin Protein in Blood Stem Cell Generation

Researchers from IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) have deciphered the function executed by a protein called ¦Â-catenin in generating blood…

Physics & Astronomy

Solving Solar System Mysteries: Icy Comets and Hot Particles

For example, how did icy comets obtain particles that formed at high temperatures, and how did these refractory particles acquire rims with different…

Earth Sciences

New Forest Carbon Monitoring Technique Boosts Colombia’s Efforts

Until now, the inability to accurately quantify carbon stocks at high spatial resolution over large areas has hindered the United Nations' Reducing Emissions…

Earth Sciences

Local weather patterns affect beliefs about global warming, NYU and Temple researchers find

Their study, which appears in the Journal of Politics, found that those living in places experiencing warmer-than-normal temperatures at the time they were…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Boosting Renewable Energy: New Method for Virtual Power Plants

In the last decade, small and distributed energy resources (DERs), like wind farms and solar panels, have begun to appear in greater numbers in the electricity…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Discovery Enhances Bacteria’s Survival in Extremes

In the days following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, methane-eating bacteria bloomed in the Gulf of Mexico, feasting on the methane that gushed, along…

Environmental Conservation

Protected areas face threats in sustaining biodiversity, Penn's Daniel Janzen and colleagues report

But in a new study, University of Pennsylvania biologist Daniel Janzen joins more than 200 colleagues to report that protected areas are still vulnerable to…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Contaminant Transport in Fungal Networks

However, these networks have surprising functions. Only a few years ago researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) discovered that…

Studies and Analyses

Global Expansion: Balancing Costs and Benefits for Industries

In addition, since global expansion is costly for service industries, manufacturing industries will profit most, said Tomas Hult, director of MSU’s…

Health & Medicine

Bridging the Gap: Patients and Doctors on Muscular Dystrophy

However, a new study out this month in the journal Neurology reveals that there is often a disconnect between the two groups over which symptoms are more…

Life & Chemistry

New gene therapy strategy boosts levels of deficient protein in Friedreich's ataxia

The method was used to achieve a 2- to 3-fold increase in production of a protein deficient in patients with Friedreich's ataxia, as described in an article…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Support Grows for Climate Change Programs Aiding Farmers

According to NASA research, global temperatures have been rising for decades, and it’s affecting all aspects of agriculture. Regardless of what those surveyed…

Earth Sciences

NASA and Researchers Discover Clue to Life’s Left-Handedness

The work also gave the strongest evidence to date that liquid water inside an asteroid leads to a strong preference of left-handed over right-handed forms of…

Life & Chemistry

Piglets in Mazes: Insights into Human Cognitive Development

Rodney Johnson and his collaborators have developed an alternative model for studying infant brain development. “Assistant professor Ryan Dilger and I became…

Life & Chemistry

Texas A&M biologists prove ZOLOFT packs potential to fight fungal meningitis

The findings are the result of a two-year investigation by Xiaorong Lin, assistant professor of biology, and Matthew S. Sachs, professor of biology, involving…

Studies and Analyses

Increasing dopamine in brain's frontal cortex decreases impulsive tendency, UCSF-Gallo study finds

“Impulsivity is a risk factor for addiction to many substances, and it has been suggested that people with lower dopamine levels in the frontal cortex tend to…

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