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Life & Chemistry

Investigators Predict, Confirm How E. Coli Bacteria Hijack Cells’ Directional Mechanism

The study proposed a new model to explain how mammalian cells establish the sense of direction necessary to move, as well as the mechanism that a…

Life & Chemistry

UCLA Scientists Identify Cell and Signaling Pathway that Regulates the Placental Blood Stem Cell Niche

The placental niche, a stem cell “safe zone,” supports blood stem cell generation and expansion without promoting differentiation into mature blood cells,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Transforming Sugarcane and Sorghum into Oil-Produced Crops

They aim to boost the natural, oil-producing capabilities of sugarcane and sorghum, increase the crops’ photosynthetic power and – in the case of sugarcane –…

Earth Sciences

Sea Ice Decline’s Impact on Arctic Air Pollutants

The connection between changes in the Arctic Ocean's ice cover and bromine chemical processes is determined by the interaction between the salt in sea ice,…

Health & Medicine

New Insights into Lung Injury from Severe Flu Infections

While some scientists report engineering a super virulent strain of the H5N1 influenza virus, which could potentially wipe out a significant percentage of the…

Health & Medicine

New Drug LAU-0901 Shows Promise for Stroke Treatment

Dr. Bazan was issued a patent on the molecule called LAU-0901, a low molecular weight drug that crosses the blood-brain barrier. The findings are published in…

Earth Sciences

New Ancient Camels Discovered in Panama Canal Excavation

Appearing online this week in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the study is the first published description of a fossil mammal discovered as part of an…

Life & Chemistry

Personal Glucose Monitors Enhanced to Detect DNA

The report on this adaptation of the ubiquitous personal glucose monitor, typically used to test blood sugar levels, appears in ACS' journal Analytical…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Meeting biofuel production targets could change agricultural landscape

An alternative, according to a study in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology, would be to convert 60 percent of existing rangeland to biofuels.W….

Physics & Astronomy

The Search for the First Stars

The Kavli Foundation spoke with three prominent researchers about this and other exciting findings that are moving scientists closer to understanding how the…

Earth Sciences

Scientific Teams Explore Antarctic Ice for Hidden Treasures

That quest by Russian, British and American scientific teams for water samples is the topic of an article in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering…

Studies and Analyses

Improving Pesticide Efficiency: MU Scientists’ Innovative Study

Farm workers and scientists protested the approval of the pesticide because its active ingredient, methyl iodide, is a known carcinogen. Now, MU researchers…

Health & Medicine

Canadian scientist develops world's most advanced drug to protect the brain after a stroke

At this point, it has reached the most advanced stage of development among drugs created to reduce the brain's vulnerability to stroke damage (termed a…

Earth Sciences

Protecting La Selva Geothermal System: Key Monitoring Strategies

Monitoring the construction of wells, avoid over-exploiting cold groundwater close to hot groundwater, and controlling mineral water extraction. These are the…

Environmental Conservation

Earthworms Linked to Ovenbird Decline in Midwest Forests

A new survey conducted in Minnesota's Chippewa National Forest and Wisconsin's Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest by a research team led by Scott Loss of the…

Trade Fair News

Anuga FoodTec 2012: Essential Innovations for Winemakers

A good wine is unmistakable. It has its own particular taste, its own characteristic and singular aroma. None of this happens by accident: the production of…

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