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Life & Chemistry

Precise Control of Protein Activity in Living Cells

This process is controlled by a group of enzymes called protein kinases that – working together and separately – modify the structure of proteins, changing…

Studies and Analyses

Cells React Differently to Stimuli: New Insights Revealed

Cells don't all act in a uniform fashion, as was previously thought.”Think of cells as musicians in a jazz band,” said Markus Covert, PhD, assistant professor…

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Siemens highlights recent R&D developments at Singapore International Water Week: Energy reduction key focus

Since Siemens Water Technologies opened its global R&D center in Singapore in 2007, the company has been developing innovative technologies and processes that…

Life & Chemistry

Japanese Gourmet Mushroom Discovered in Sweden’s Forests

“There will undoubtedly be a lot of interest in Sweden, and definitely in Japan once these discoveries become known there,” says Henrik Sundberg, who conducted…

Life & Chemistry

Boosting Immunity: Key to Fighting Stomach Cancer

Helicobacter pylori is one of the most common bacterial infections in the world, and leads to chronic inflammation of the stomach. While carriers are generally…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Uncover Reasons Superconductors Fail to Create Currents

That didn't happen. Now, a University of Florida scientist is among a team of physicists to help explain why.In a paper set to appear Sunday in the online…

Life & Chemistry

Carbon Nanotube Biosensor Detects Proteins with High Sensitivity

The nanotube biosensor proved capable of detecting human ferritin, the primary iron-storing protein of cells, and E7 oncoprotein derived from human…

Studies and Analyses

Intervention Reduces Youth Obesity Rates in High Diabetes Risk

An intervention in middle schools lowered the obesity rate in students at highest risk for type 2 diabetes, those who started out overweight or obese in sixth…

Health & Medicine

Serotonin and Protein: New Insights into Gestational Diabetes

The surprise discovery could lead to simple dietary solutions and possible therapeutics for the disorder known as gestational diabetes, which if untreated, has…

Health & Medicine

Statins May Lower Cancer Recurrence After Prostatectomy

The findings are published in the journal CANCER. “The findings add another layer of evidence suggesting that statins may have an important role in slowing the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

One-Time Tillage Benefits for No-Till Farming Explored

A one-time tillage has no adverse effects on yield or soil properties on no-till land, according to field research conducted at the University of…

Physics & Astronomy

Extreme Plasma Conditions: Inside Imploding Bubbles

In a paper published in the June 27 issue of Nature Physics, University of lllinois chemistry professor Kenneth S. Suslick and former student David Flannigan,…

Business and Finance

Sandia National Laboratories’ Big Impact on Small Business and New Mexico’s Economy

Sandia’s Small Business Utilization Department has produced a brochure, “Sandia National Laboratories Economic Impact on the State of New Mexico,”outlining the…

Earth Sciences

Arctic Freshwater Cycle Intensifies, Marks Warming

The multi-year, multi-investigator synthesis of available data caps a five-year effort known as the Freshwater Integration study (FWI), funded by the National…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Researcher Develops Green, Bio-Based Process for Producing Fuel Additive

Thomas Bobik, professor of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology, invented a process for manufacturing isobutene (isobutylene) by identifying a new,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Scientists Find Four-Leaf Clover Gene

The results of the study, which also located two other leaf traits in the white-clover genome, were reported in the July/August 2010 edition of Crop Science,…

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