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Life & Chemistry

Introns: A Mystery Renewed

Their study of the model organism Daphnia pulex (water flea) is the first to demonstrate the colonization of a single lineage by “introns,” as the interrupting…

Studies and Analyses

Action on Climate Change Compatible with Long-Term U.S. Economic Growth

The study, which assessed the impacts of the partnership's legislative plan, found that measures being proposed would cost the average American household $57,…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Discover a Way to Strengthen Proteins

This precarious stability leaves proteins and the living beings that depend upon them on the edge of a precipice, where a single destabilizing change in a key…

Studies and Analyses

Delaying the Aging Process Protects Against Alzheimer’s Disease

“Our study opens up a whole new avenue of looking at the disease,” says the study’s leader, Howard Hughes Medical Investigator Andrew Dillin, Ph.D., a…

Earth Sciences

Smart Solutions for Climate Protection at UN Conference

In the light of the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) together with the German Technical Cooperation…

Technology Offerings

Discover Thermally Modified Timber: Enhanced Durability & Stability

Thermally modified timber (TMT) features improved durability and stability with no chemical additives. Thermal modification reduces shrinking and swelling and…

Technology Offerings

Non-Reactive Fluid Precipitator Boosts Chemical Reactions

The novel precipitator is suitable for high-speed reactions of chemicals in the liquid phase. It achieves supersaturation through the rapid mixing of two…

Life & Chemistry

Look-Alike Species Complicates White Marlin Population Status

The prized white marlin, sought by anglers in million dollar prize tournaments and captured incidentally in commercial fisheries, is among the most overfished…

Physics & Astronomy

Cassini closes in on the centuries-old mystery of Saturn's moon Iapetus

The results, published online Dec. 10 in a pair of papers in the journal Science, provide what may be the most plausible explanation to date for the moon's…

Earth Sciences

Earth's atmosphere came from outer space, find scientists

The report published this week in the prestigious international journal 'Science' means that textbook images of ancient Earth with huge volcanoes spewing gas…

Life & Chemistry

DNA Study Sheds New Light on Horse Evolution

The study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, involved an international team of researchers and the Australian Centre for…

Life & Chemistry

Mechanism discovered by which body's cells encourage tuberculosis infection

Scientists have discovered a signaling pathway that tuberculosis bacteria use to coerce disease-fighting cells to switch allegiance and work on their behalf.Epithelial cells line the airways and other surfaces to protect and defend the body. Tuberculosis bacteria co-opt these epithelial cells into helping create tubercles: the small, rounded masses characteristic of TB. The tubercles enable the bacteria to expand their numbers and spread to other locations. …

Physics & Astronomy

Formula to detect an author's literary 'fingerprint'

New research published yesterday, Thursday 10 December, in New Journal of Physics (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and German Physical Society), describes…

Life & Chemistry

U-M Researchers Strengthen Proteins for Enhanced Stability

This precarious stability leaves proteins and the living beings that depend upon them on the edge of a precipice, where a single destabilizing change in a key…

Earth Sciences

Early Carnivorous Dinosaurs: Did They Cross Continents?

Did the first dinosaurs wander across continents or stay put where they first evolved? The first dinosaurs evolved 230 million years ago when the continents…

Life & Chemistry

Tiny molecule slows progression of Lou Gehrig's disease in mice

“We believe we can apply this research toward drug development,” said Dr. Eric Olson, chairman of molecular biology at UT Southwestern and senior author of the…

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