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Enhancing Antimicrobials: Targeting Superbugs Effectively

Bacteriophages produce endolysin proteins that specifically target certain bacteria, and IFR has been studying one that destroys Clostridium difficile, a…

Environmental Conservation

Researchers Improve Satellite Surface Measurements

The results of their study from the 2009 NASA Student Airborne Research Program are published in the Aug. 4 online edition of the journal Remote Sensing…

Life & Chemistry

Researcher Finds Link Between Soil Nitrite and Atmospheric Detergent Effect

The study is published in the Aug. 18 online edition of the journal Science (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/08/17/science.1207687).Hydroxyl…

Physics & Astronomy

Miniaturizing Delay Lines: Quantum Spin Hall Effect for Light

If fiber optic cable is ideal for carrying information, why haven’t photons replaced electrons entirely? Largely because miniaturizing photonic equipment all…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Cancer Insights: MicroRNAs in Glioblastoma Therapy

“We have advanced the understanding of the role of microRNAs on glioblastoma multiforme, a deadly brain cancer, by studying the networks between the microRNAs…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers find ice and possibly methane on Snow White, a distant dwarf planet

The new findings also suggest that the red-tinged dwarf planet may be covered in a thin layer of methane, the remnants of an atmosphere that's slowly being…

Health & Medicine

New Target for Type 2 Diabetes Treatment Identified by Joslin Researchers

A paper in published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that the enzyme, Sirt3, is decreased in the skeletal muscle of…

Studies and Analyses

Food Security Boosts Wildlife: Insights from Zambia’s COMACO

Known as COMACO (Community Markets for Conservation), the program began in Zambia in 2003 and has resulted in wildlife populations stabilizing and rebounding…

Studies and Analyses

Low Antidepressant Completion Among Ohio Medicaid Kids

Among those at the highest risk for not completing treatment are adolescents – as opposed to younger children – and minority youths, particularly African…

Life & Chemistry

Hyenas’ ability to count helps them decide to fight or flee

When animals fight, the larger group tends to win. In the current issue of Animal Behaviour, Sarah Benson-Amram, an MSU graduate student studying zoology,…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Markers Reveal Mislabeled Chilean Sea Bass Sales

The research by Marko, Holly Nance and Kimberly Guynn is reported in the Aug. 23 edition of Current Biology (Marko et al.: “Genetic detection of mislabeled…

Materials Sciences

Etch-A-Sketch: Crafting Superconducting Structures for New Tech

This ability to create and control tiny superconducting structures has implications for a completely new generation of electronic devices.Superconductivity is…

Earth Sciences

Increasing Wildfires in Southern South America: CU-Boulder Study

The research team used tree rings dating to 1506 to track past wildfire activity in the forests of Patagonia tied to the Southern Annular Mode, or SAM, a…

Physics & Astronomy

Table-Top Accelerators: Compact Electron Beams on Demand

Laser plasma accelerators offer the potential to create powerful electron beams within a fraction of the space required by conventional accelerators – and at a…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Nano Bundles: New Solid-State Supercapacitor Breakthrough

Rice University researchers have created a solid-state, nanotube-based supercapacitor that promises to combine the best qualities of high-energy batteries and…

Studies and Analyses

Boys Feel Discussing Problems Is Waste of Time, MU Study Finds

A new University of Missouri study finds that boys feel that discussing problems is a waste of time.“For years, popular psychologists have insisted that boys…

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