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Life & Chemistry

New Synthetic Molecules Target Autoimmune Disease in Mice

Prof. Irit Sagi of the Biological Regulation Department and her research group have spent years looking for ways to home in on and block members of the matrix…

Studies and Analyses

Diet Patterns That Boost Brain Health and Cognitive Function

Those with diets high in omega 3 fatty acids and in vitamins C, D, E and the B vitamins also had higher scores on mental thinking tests than people with diets…

Environmental Conservation

Jaguar Photo Shows Conservation Success in Bolivia

1,000 jaguars live in the vast bi-national Gran Chaco Jaguar Conservation Unit spanning southern Bolivia and northern ParaguayThe Wildlife Conservation Society…

Materials Sciences

RWTH Aachen and Maastricht Team Up for Advanced Biobased Materials

Situated at the Chemelot Chemical Innovation Community in the Province of Limburg, NL, partners strive for excellence in most modern biobased materials…

Life & Chemistry

Bacteria’s Defense Against Toxic Fluoride Uncovered by Yale Research

HHMI researcher Ronald Breaker of Yale University has discovered the cellular chain of events that occurs inside a bacterium after it encounters fluoride in…

Physics & Astronomy

Harvard Physicists Unveil New Cooling Technique for Quantum Gases

The research, published this week in the journal Nature, is the first application of such an “algorithmic cooling” technique to ultra-cold atomic gases,…

Life & Chemistry

Fish Oil Compound Targets Leukemia Stem Cells in Mice

The compound — delta-12-protaglandin J3, or D12-PGJ3 — targeted and killed the stem cells of chronic myelogenous leukemia, or CML, in mice, said Sandeep…

Earth Sciences

First ever direct measurement of the Earth's rotation

The Earth wobbles. Like a spinning top touched in mid-spin, its rotational axis fluctuates in relation to space. This is partly caused by gravitation from the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Reclaiming Land After Wildfires: Innovative Restoration Techniques

Wildfires cause tragic losses to life, property, and the environment. But even after the fire rages, the damage is far from done. Without vegetation, bare,…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Networks Unite to Fuel Cancer Progression

An inflammation-promoting protein triggers deactivation of a tumor-suppressor that usually blocks cancer formation via the NOTCH signaling pathway, a team of…

Life & Chemistry

Enzyme that flips switch on cells' sugar cravings could be anti-cancer target

Cancer cells' sugar cravings arise partly because they turn off their mitochondria, power sources that burn glucose efficiently, in favor of a more inefficient…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Technique Simplifies Semiconductor Etching Process

The team developed a method to chemically etch patterned arrays in the semiconductor gallium arsenide, used in solar cells, lasers, light emitting diodes…

Life & Chemistry

MSU Chemists Solve 84-Year-Old Angular Momentum Theory

Conservation of angular momentum is a fundamental property of nature, one that astronomers use to detect the presence of satellites circling distant planets….

Information Technology

New Passive Optical Diode Enhances Information Processing

The “passive optical diode” is made from two tiny silicon rings measuring 10 microns in diameter, or about one-tenth the width of a human hair. Unlike other…

Power and Electrical Engineering

DOE researchers achieve important genetic breakthroughs to help develop cheaper biofuels

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) announced today a major breakthrough in engineering systems of RNA…

Health & Medicine

Pitt Researchers Unveil Model for Improved Flu Shot Design

New research that focuses on the composition and timing of the shot design was published in the September-October issue of Operations Research by Pitt Swanson…

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