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Johns Hopkins Discovers New Approach to Target TB Effectively

This class of chemical compounds attacks TB by inhibiting methionine aminopeptidase (MetAP), an essential enzyme found in organisms ranging from bacteria to…

Studies and Analyses

How Talking to Babies Boosts Early Cognitive Development

Northwestern University researchers have found that even before infants begin to speak, words play an important role in their cognition. For 3-month-old…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Room Temperature Liquid Porphyrins in Science

Porphyrins have received a great deal of attention in the scientific community owing to their useful application in a wide variety of areas, such as the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Four-Year Effort Focuses on Increasing Efficiencies of Organic Photovoltaic Solar Cells as High as 20%

Global Photonic Energy Corporation (“GPEC”), a leading developer of a sustainable Organic Photovoltaic (OPV™) technology, which will enable ultra low-cost…

Trade Fair News

French Pavilion to highlight country’s innovation at Internet World 2010

The French Pavilion (Stand E5080) at Earl’s Court 2 (in London) will offer a unique environment in which company representatives can discover new products and…

Life & Chemistry

Chemist monitors nanotechnology’s impact

At least that’s the way Omowunmi Sadik, director of Binghamton University’s Center for Advanced Sensors and Environmental Systems, sees it. She’s working to…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Sapphire: a Blue Gem for Greener Fuel

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology are investigating sapphire’s suitability for sensors that could survive the harsh, hot environment…

Life & Chemistry

Model Helps Cities Recover Lost Water Resources

An RTI researcher says the first way to meet this fast-rising demand is to reduce losses from existing production rather than building more reservoirs and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Mini Generators Make Energy from Random Ambient Vibrations

The energy-harvesting devices, created at U-M's Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems, are highly efficient at providing renewable…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Bringing Better Grapes a Step Closer to Reality

A team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) researchers has found a way to speed things up by developing a way to identify genetic markers in the grapevine’s…

Earth Sciences

Global Temperature Report — February 2010

2nd warmest February in 32 years is fifth 'warmest' month overallNew dataset corrects seasonal cyclesGlobal climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per…

Life & Chemistry

Chemotherapy Plus Synthetic Compound Provides Potent Anti-Tumor Effect in Pancreatic Cancers

The research, conducted in mice, appears in today’s issue of Cancer Research and could lead to more effective therapies for pancreatic and possibly other…

Health & Medicine

Memory May Decline Rapidly Even in Stage Before Alzheimer’s Disease

“These results show that we need to pay attention to this time before Alzheimer’s disease is diagnosed, when people are just starting to have problems…

Life & Chemistry

Causes Found for Stiff Skin Conditions

“Scleroderma is a common and often devastating condition yet its cause remains mysterious. My greatest hope is that this work will facilitate the development…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Estimating Ethanol Yields from CRP Croplands

Agronomist Paul Adler, who works at the ARS Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit in University Park, Pa., led this research. Collaborators…

Life & Chemistry

Spying on a Cellular Director in the Cutting Room

But more than box office revenues are at stake: if the spliceosome makes a careless cut, disease likely results. Using a new approach to studying the…

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