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Modeling Plant Metabolism To Boost Oil Production Efficiency

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a computational model for analyzing the metabolic processes…

Health & Medicine

Nano-Sized Drug Transporter: A New Approach to Disease Treatment

The transporter, called a nanocarrier, is a lipid-based structure containing a piece of RNA. Lipids are fatty molecules that help maintain the structure of…

Earth Sciences

Warming Climate Likely to Dramatically Increase Yellowstone Fires by Mid-Century

A study published online the week of July 25 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that climate change could increase the frequency of…

Life & Chemistry

Novel Gene Increases Yeast’s Appetite for Plant Sugars

Published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center team identified several new genes…

Studies and Analyses

How Worrying Affects Your Relationships: Key Insights

These people suffer from what’s called generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), says Case Western Reserve psychologist Amy Przeworski. Individuals with GAD…

Materials Sciences

Caltech Engineers Create First Tunable Acoustic Diode

However, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have now created the first tunable acoustic diode-a device that allows acoustic…

Studies and Analyses

Transcendental Meditation Boosts Brain Function in ADHD Students

A random-assignment controlled study published today in Mind & Brain, The Journal of Psychiatry (Vol 2, No 1) found improved brain functioning and decreased…

Health & Medicine

Stent Addition in Minimally Invasive Aneurysm Surgery Reduces Recurrence

The addition of a simple stent can help prevent potentially lethal blood vessel bulges in the brain from recurring after they are repaired in a minimally…

Life & Chemistry

Penn Researchers Develop Nanotube Grafting for Olfactory Receptors

Because olfactory receptors belong to a larger class of proteins that are involved in passing signals through the cell membrane, these devices could have…

Earth Sciences

Reforestation's cooling influence — a result of farmer's past choices

Previous research has led scientists and politicians to believe that regrowing forests on Northern lands that were cleared in order to grow crops would not…

Life & Chemistry

Sea Squirt Cells Reveal Insights Into Cancer Development

Delicate, threadlike protrusions used by cancer cells when they invade other tissues in the body could also help them escape control mechanisms supposed to…

Health & Medicine

St. Michael's North America first to use novel blood-cleaning procedure for kidney transplant

St. Michael's Hospital today became the first in North America to use a novel blood-cleaning procedure for a kidney patient that will allow him to receive a…

Life & Chemistry

UBC researchers create more powerful “lab-on-a-chip” for genetic analysis

The UBC device – about the size of a nine-volt battery – allows scientists to simultaneously analyze 300 cells individually by routing fluid carrying cells…

Life & Chemistry

Genetics and Eating Disorders: Insights from New Study

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and the Scripps Translational…

Life & Chemistry

Cancers: Understanding Tumors as Evolved Species

Cancerous tumors are parasitic organisms, he said. Each one is a new species that, like most parasites, depends on its host for food, but otherwise operates…

Health & Medicine

Researchers Uncover New Insights on Cervical Spine Injuries

Swartz and lead author Steven Broglio of the University of Michigan captured this groundbreaking spinal fracture data while studying concussions. Broglio had…

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