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Life & Chemistry

Using Mother Nature to provide an environmentally friendly method for reducing mosquitoes

A scientific breakthrough might assist in the fight against mosquitoes. New research carried out at the University of Haifa in collaboration with researchers…

Physics & Astronomy

Emergent resistance network suggests mechanism for colossal magnetoresistance

Research by scientists at Stanford University and RIKEN has revealed new clues on the microscopic processes by which resistance in certain materials is…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Pyridinylidene Hydrazones Target Alzheimer’s Disease

It was surprisingly found that the pyridinylidene hydrazone derivatives inhibit AChE and BuChE as well as Aβ fibril formation significantly. They can destroy…

Life & Chemistry

DNA Barcoding Uncovers 5 New Frog Species in Panama

Like a wave, the fungal disease that wipes out frogs—chytridiomycosis—is advancing through the Central American highlands at a rate of about 30 kilometers per…

Life & Chemistry

New Strategy Alters Conditions to Combat Viruses Effectively

Instead of attacking the virus itself, the method developed at the University of Edinburgh alters the conditions which viruses need to survive and multiply.By…

Studies and Analyses

Study Shows Arthroscopic Hip Surgery Restores Athletic Function

The researchers at Rush determined that 78 percent of athletes suffering from hip labral tear caused by internal ball and socket joint damage to the hip also…

Life & Chemistry

K-State Researchers Develop Gene-Silencing Nanoparticles for Pest Control

Research conducted by a Kansas State University team may help solve a problem that scientists and pest controllers have been itching to for years.Kun Yan Zhu,…

Life & Chemistry

iGEM Team Tackles Rogue Synthetic Biology Use

Synthetic biology offers huge potential for practical applications in medicine, energy production, agriculture, and other areas. For a few thousand dollars, it…

Business and Finance

German Micro- and Nanotech Firms Report Positive Trends

More than half of the companies say that business in the first half of 2010 fared better than expected. The companies are positive about the second half of the…

Event News

Functional Genomics to Systems Biology: Bridging Knowledge Gaps

In order to gain a systems level understanding of a given process, cell or organism, the current challenge is to convert these static qualitative maps into…

Event News

Explore the 11th EMBL/EMBO Science and Society Conference

Registration is open until 15 October 2010.We are pleased to announce our next Science and Society conference on 5-6 November 2010 at the European Molecular…

Event News

Innovative Yeast Studies Transform Evolution and Ecology Insights

Great advances in understanding how organisms work have been made in recent years, largely through the use of a few well-understood model systems such as…

Event News

Exploring Neural Circuits: Genes Influence Function and Plasticity

Genes and molecules impact directly the assembly, function, and plasticity of specific neural circuits, and recent studies in different model systems start to…

Life & Chemistry

Wood's 'noble rot' fungus genetically decoded

An international team including Empa researcher Francis Schwarze has sequenced the genome of the common split gill mushroom, Schizophyllum commune, a widely…

Life & Chemistry

Microbial world’s use of metals mostly unmapped

A new way of surveying microbes for the metals they contain reveals that biologists have been relying on the equivalent of a 15th century map of the world.It…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Research develops simple 'recipe' for fungus-free horseradish

The final recipe: submerge in water heated to 47 degrees Centigrade for 20 minutes. Babadoost was looking for a reliable, non-chemical method to control…

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