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Life & Chemistry

Genetic Evidence Exonerates Ben Franklin in Tree Mystery

The DNA evidence is in, and Ben Franklin didn't do it.Genetic tests on more than 1,000 Chinese tallow trees from the United States and China show the famed…

Studies and Analyses

Arctic Wildfire Leads to Significant Carbon Loss, Study Finds

In a study published in this week’s issue of Nature, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) senior scientist Gauis Shaver and his colleagues, including lead author…

Health & Medicine

Low Blood Pressure During Dialysis: Clot Risks Explored

Side effects associated with this situation over the long term range from stroke to seizure to heart damage to death. Patients also suffer in the short term…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Bacteria Can "Fertilize" Copper-Polluted Soil

Now, however, Ramakrishna Wusirika’s research team may have discovered how to make plants grow in the mine-waste desert and soak up some copper while they are…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Discover How Some Breast Cancers Alter Their Sensitivity to Estrogen

Using human breast cancer cells and the protein that causes fireflies to glow, a Johns Hopkins team has shed light on why some breast cancer cells become…

Physics & Astronomy

CERN Experiment Weighs Antimatter with Unprecedented Accuracy

“This is a very satisfying result,” said Masaki Hori, a project leader in the ASACUSA collaboration. “It means that our measurement of the antiproton’s mass…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Take a Giant Step for People – with Plants!

An international team of scientists, whose senior investigators include Salk Institute plant biologist Joseph Ecker, report one such leap in the July 29, 2011…

Life & Chemistry

Insect Virus Holds the Key to Safer Stem Cell Therapy

The future of regenerative medicine lies in harnessing the potential of the human body to renew and repair itself. Now, scientists at the Institute of…

Materials Sciences

New Device Mimics Complex Synaptic Functions for First Time

A joint research group of International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, NIMS, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California,…

Architecture & Construction

New Technology Averts Bridge Disasters and Saves Lives

Millions of U.S. drivers cross faulty or obsolete bridges every day, highway statistics show, but it's too costly to fix all these spans or adequately monitor…

Studies and Analyses

Fast Ripples: Key Biomarker for Children’s Seizure Activity

New research focusing on high-frequency oscillations, termed ripples and fast ripples, recorded by intracranial electroencephalography (EEG), may provide an…

Studies and Analyses

Golf Swing Study Reveals Key Biomechanical Differences

For the first time, several key rotational-biomechanic elements of the golf stroke in its entirety, from backswing to follow-through, were analyzed, and then…

Health & Medicine

New Kidney Drug Regimen Enhances Post-Transplant Care

For the thousands of patients who receive kidney transplants in the United States each year, preventing organ rejection without compromising other aspects of…

Technology Offerings

cPLA2–Inhibitor (stoPLA) – New compounds for the topical treatment of skin inflammation

Novel group of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: The new class of heteroaryl-substituted acetone derivatives inhibits effectively the cytosolic…

Technology Offerings

Method for isolation & accumulation of small RNAs for clinical marker development

A large part of gene regulation in eukaryotes takes place at the level of RNA-molecules. A group of endogenous regulatory RNA-molecules, the so-called…

Materials Sciences

Material created at Purdue lets electrons 'dance' and form new state

The material, gallium arsenide, is used to observe states in which electrons no longer obey the laws of single-particle physics, but instead are governed by…

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