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Small Molecules Show Promise in Preventing Ebola Infection

The results are to be published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and are now online.Previous studies have shown that small molecules can interfere with…

Life & Chemistry

Amoebae Pack Lunches for Travel, Study Reveals New Behavior

Some amoebae do what many people do. Before they travel, they pack a lunch.In results of a study reported today in the journal Nature, evolutionary biologists…

Studies and Analyses

Glycerin: A Promising Feedstuff for Swine Diets

This study, led by U of I graduate research assistant Omarh Mendoza, was published in the Journal of Animal Science and reports that swine diets may include up…

Life & Chemistry

Nanoscale Rope Advances Self-Assembling Nanomaterials

Their work is the latest development in the push to develop self-assembling nanoscale materials that mimic the intricacy and functionality of nature's…

Health & Medicine

New Method Reveals Timing of HIV Infection Accurately

Researchers of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study have identified a simple method to establish when a patient contracted the virus causing . The time of infection can…

Life & Chemistry

Brain Imaging Reveals Your Video Game Aptitude Potential

The new approach used established brain imaging techniques in a new way. Instead of measuring how brain activity differs before and after subjects learn a…

Life & Chemistry

Rad18 Enzyme: A New Target for Cancer Treatment Innovations

The enzyme, known as Rad18, detects a protein called DNA polymerase eta (Pol eta) and accompanies it to the sites of sunlight-induced DNA damage, enabling…

Physics & Astronomy

Sharply focused on neurons, light controls a worm's behavior

Physicists and bioengineers have developed an optical instrument allowing them to control the behavior of a worm just by shining a tightly focused beam of…

Studies and Analyses

New CPR Technique Boosts Out-Of-Hospital Survival Rates 53%

The study, which is published in the January 19th, 2011 online version of Lancet, and will be in an upcoming publication of Lancet, determined that active…

Studies and Analyses

Healthy Gums Linked to Improved Lung Health, Study Finds

Maintaining periodontal health may contribute to a healthy respiratory system, according to research published in the Journal of Periodontology. A new study…

Life & Chemistry

New Nanoparticle Technique Detects Cholera Toxin in Water

A technique developed by University of Central Florida scientists would allow relief workers to test water sources that could be contaminated with the cholera…

Materials Sciences

Harnessing Heat Waste: New Advances in Electricity Generation

Researchers at Northwestern University have placed nanocrystals of rock salt into lead telluride, creating a material that can harness electricity from…

Life & Chemistry

Scripps Researchers Develop Promising HIV-Fighting Compound

Using chemical compounds found in a Japanese plant as a lead and the clever application of ultraviolet light, a Scripps Research Institute team has created a…

Health & Medicine

Asthma in Kids: Early Lung Function Loss Explained

In an article available online in the January issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals Higher Abuse Rates in Deaf Children

A new study at Rochester Institute of Technology indicates that the incidence of maltreatment, including neglect and physical and sexual abuse, is more than 25…

Studies and Analyses

Apologies aren't as good as people imagine they'll be

Apologies have been in the news a lot the last few years in the context of the financial crisis, says David De Cremer of Erasmus University in the Netherlands….

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