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Life & Chemistry

Finding the Sweet Spot

Many proteins are adorned with carbohydrate chains called glycans that can dramatically alter their stability, localization or function. These diverse sugars…

Studies and Analyses

Lead levels in drinking water spike when copper and lead pipes joined

Lead pipes once used routinely in municipal water distribution systems are a well-recognized source of dangerous lead contamination, but new research from…

Life & Chemistry

Amino Acid Variation in Immune Gene Tied to Colitis Risk

Variations in genes that regulate immune responses in a region of chromosome 6 have long been linked with susceptibility for many infectious and chronic…

Technology Offerings

TAXA-FIX – Purification of taxanes by means of CPC or CCC

TheTAXA-FIX invention relates to a process for separating and purifying taxanes using liquid-liquid partition chromatography (e.g. FCPC). In this case the…

Technology Offerings

Gaseous Substrates: A New Frontier in Biogas Production

Conventional processes for generating biogas require solid or liquid biomass input. This novel process uses gaseous substrates and thereby enhances versatile…

Corporate News

Siemens Upgrades Automation for ThyssenKrupp Steel Mill

In addition to having a hot wide strip mill, the ThyssenKrupp Steel plant in Bruckhausen also operates a casting-rolling mill. There, the liquid steel is first…

Health & Medicine

Researchers investigate link between autoimmune diseases and wounds that don't heal

The finding, published online Dec. 14th in the International Wound Journal, represents an unappreciated link that could lead to important new insights in wound…

Life & Chemistry

Largest Genome Tree of Life Unveiled for Seed Plants

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, The New York Botanical Garden, and New York University have created the…

Studies and Analyses

Unlocking Fish Sound Production: New Insights on Evolution

Understanding the evolution of such fast muscles has been difficult for researchers because slow movement of a swimbladder does not generate sound. In a study…

Medical Engineering

A "Fantastic Voyage" Through the Body — with Precision Control

Endoscopes — small cameras or optic fibres that are usually attached to flexible tubing designed to investigate the interior of the body — can be dangerously…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Discover Second-Oldest Gene Mutation

Researchers with the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute led the study…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists find microbes in lava tube living in conditions like those on Mars

A team of scientists from Oregon has collected microbes from ice within a lava tube in the Cascade Mountains and found that they thrive in cold, Mars-like…

Environmental Conservation

Acid rain poses a previously unrecognized threat to Great Lakes sugar maples

Over the past four decades, sugar maple abundance has declined in some regions of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, due largely to…

Life & Chemistry

New Research Reveals Rapid Evolution of Reproductive Organ Shape

Today, new international research led by Indiana University shows that as populations and species diversify, the exact shape and fit of genitalia steals the…

Health & Medicine

IASLC Forms Committee to Enhance CT Lung Cancer Screening

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) has taken a proactive role in advancing discussions with the international lung cancer…

Life & Chemistry

Ohio State Researchers Uncover BAP1 Gene Link to Eye Melanoma

The hereditary cancer syndrome is caused by an inherited mutation in a gene called BAP1, researchers say. The findings suggest that BAP1 mutations cause the…

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