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E. Coli’s Sweet Strategy for Thriving in Harsh Environments

Microbes are well-known for their ability to grow in demanding and nutritionally poor environments, which has allowed them to colonise some of the most remote…

Life & Chemistry

UT Knoxville and ORNL Transform Algae into Clean Hydrogen Source

In the quest to make hydrogen as a clean alternative fuel source, researchers have been stymied about how to create usable hydrogen that is clean and…

Life & Chemistry

Placing Active Agents in the Body with "Mini-Containers"

Jena scientists from different disciplines founded a new network in order to utilize so-called nanocontainers for applications in the biomedical field…

Life & Chemistry

Slowing Evolution to Combat Drug Resistance: New Research Insights

In a new project, researchers at the University of Gothenburg are attempting to find substances that can slow the pace of evolution, in order to ensure that…

Health & Medicine

Chlamydia Vaccine Development: New Breakthrough Insights

This discovery could pave the way for the relatively rapid development of a vaccine against Chlamydia.”Now that we know how the body defends itself against the…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Molecules: Challenges of Nanometer Scale Innovations

However, severe problems arise due to quantum-mechanical phenomena when conventional structures are simply made smaller and reach the nanometer scale….

Life & Chemistry

Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine: Benefits and Risks Explained

Researchers aimed to investigate whether the mononuclear cell fraction of human cord blood (HUCBM cells), which contains stem cells, might be useful in hepatic…

Life & Chemistry

No-Entry Zones: New Insights Into HIV Integration Sites

Like all retroviruses, the AIDS virus (HIV) integrates its DNA into the genome of the infected cell. As integration sites, HIV usually prefers active genes…

Life & Chemistry

CSHL Team Unveils NMDA Receptor Structure for Drug Targets

A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) reports on Thursday their success in solving the molecular structure of a key portion of a…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress with the ERAI System

Takao IwawakiInitiative Research ScientistIwawaki Initiative Research UnitRIKEN Advanced Science InstituteThe endoplasmic reticulum is a cell organelle that…

Life & Chemistry

Embryonic development—lost in space?

Despite other challenges, biological difficulties may be the primary obstacle to successful mammalian reproduction and development in orbit, according to new…

Physics & Astronomy

Innovative Nanowire Synthesis via Gas Blocker in CVD Process

Reported by Megawati Omar, Research Management Institute, UiTMResearchers Mohd Zainizan Sahdan, Mohd Hafiz Mamat, Zuraida Khusaimi, Mohd Noor and Mohd Rusop…

Information Technology

Detecting Outliers in Bilinear Time Series Model

He studied how to build models and detect outliers in BL (l,l,l,l) models in time-domain framework. In the model building, the Box-Jenkins approach was closely…

Awards Funding

UT Southwestern Receives $42 Million in Recovery Act Stimulus Funding

UT Southwestern’s grants have come from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which was allotted $10 billion to…

Materials Sciences

Nanotech in Space: Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit

The project, funded by the U.S. Air Force Multi University Research Initiative (MURI), seeks to test the performance of the new nanocomposites in orbit. Space…

Life & Chemistry

Research Reveals Lipid’s Unexpected Role in Triggering Death of Brain Cells

The work provides the first evidence that a lipid can initiate the suicidal, or apoptotic, response in cells. The findings involve a lipid called…

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