Much of what living cells do is carried out by “molecular machines” – physical complexes of specialized proteins working together to carry out some biological…
Summertime hail could all but disappear from the eastern flank of Colorado's Rocky Mountains by 2070, according to a new modeling study by scientists from NOAA…
Much of what living cells do is carried out by “molecular machines” – physical complexes of specialized proteins working together to carry out some biological…
Persilastaffanes are an unusual new class of compounds that are introduced in the journal Angewandte Chemie by Japanese researchers led by Takeaki Iwamoto at…
A new study in Nature Climate Change aims to present a more complete picture – to incorporate other characteristics of ecosystems that also influence climate.“We know that forests store a lot of carbon and clearing a forest releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and contributes to climate change,” said University of Illinois postdoctoral researcher Kristina Anderson-Teixeira, who pioneered the new approach with plant biology and Energy Biosciences Institute professor Evan DeLucia. “But ecosystems provide other climate regulation services as well.”…
Signal amplificationAmplification of optical signals is critical in photonics applications. Semiconductor optical waveguide amplifiers have high gain per unit…
This greatly increases the risk that a new wave of invasives will overrun native ecosystems in the way kudzu, Oriental bittersweet and purple loosestrife have…
Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard University, and the University of Cambridge have found that the age-related impairment of the body’s ability to…
Graphene is a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a chicken wire structure. In its pristine state, it exhibits no signs of the conventional magnetism usually…
With the publication of “Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change,” scheduled for Advance Online Publication (AOP) in Nature Climate…
Much of the work was done at the Jan and Dan L. Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital. MeCP2 is a “Goldilocks” in the protein…
The Earth's current warm period that began about 11,000 years ago should give way to another ice age within about 1,500 years, according to accepted…
A molecular mechanism that links diet, obesity and diabetes involves depletion of specialized ‘transporter proteins’, a Japanese–American team has found1….
In mouse, odor is sensed by the main olfactory epithelium (MOE) by about 1100 types of olfactory receptors that are expressed by olfactory sensory neurons….
The mammalian gut is home to hundreds of bacterial species that contribute to food digestion and, in some cases, inflammatory gut diseases. Probiotics,…
Most proteins have multiple moving parts that rearrange into different conformations to execute particular functions. Such changes may be induced by molecules…
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