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Life & Chemistry

Loss of Tumor Supressor Gene Essential in Transforming Benign Nerve Tumors into Cancers

The work, a collaboration between the Institute for Molecular Medicine, the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology and the cancer center’s Sarcoma…

Life & Chemistry

Genetics of Patterning the Cerebral Cortex: How Stem Cells Yield Functional Regions in “Gray Matter”

In the Oct. 11 advance online edition of Nature Neuroscience, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have identified the…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Identify Workings of L-Form Bacteria

L-form bacteria, which were first discovered in the 1930s, are morphological variants of classical bacteria that lack a cell wall. Under specialized growth…

Environmental Conservation

Conservation Targets Too Small to Stop Extinction

That’s according to a new study by University of Adelaide and Macquarie University scientists which has shown that populations of endangered species are…

Studies and Analyses

Teen Smoking-cessation Trial Is the First to Achieve Significant Increase in Prolonged Quit Rates

These findings, by Arthur V. Peterson Jr., Ph.D., Kathleen A. Kealey and colleagues, are reported in a pair of papers in the Oct. 12 “Advance Access” online…

Environmental Conservation

New Tech for Tracking Ultra-Fine Dust Emissions

Fine particle emissions have been the subject of heated debate for years. People who live near industrial plants see the smoke being discharged into the…

Technology Offerings

Promo-latex – Novel laticifer-specific promoters from Taraxacum koksaghyz

The invention discloses a set of laticifer-specific promoters from Taraxacum koksaghyz (Russian Dandelion), which control rubber gene expression. These…

Life & Chemistry

Herbivory discovered in a spider

There are approximately 40,000 species of spiders in the world, all of which have been thought to be strict predators that feed on insects or other animals….

Environmental Conservation

No place like home: Africa's big cats show postcode preference

The results shed light on how different habitats are used by some of Tanzania's most elusive meat eaters, such as the leopard. Scientists from the Zoological…

Earth Sciences

Scientists obtain rocks moving into seismogenic zone

An international group of scientists aboard the Deep-Sea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)…

Science Education

Small classes have long-term benefit for all students

The research by Spyros Konstantopoulos, associate professor of education, is the first to examine the effects of class size over a sustained period and for all…

Health & Medicine

New Guidelines Identify Best Treatments to Help ALS Patients Live Longer, Easier

“While we are waiting for a cure, people need to know that a lot can be done to make life easier and longer for people with ALS,” said lead guidelines author…

Life & Chemistry

How RNA polymerase II gets the go-ahead for gene transcription

The set of proteins synthesized by a cell in turn determines its structure and behaviour, and enables it to survive and reproduce. So it is crucial that the…

Health & Medicine

Mediterranean diet associated with reduced risk of depression

The lifetime prevalence of mental disorders has been found to be lower in Mediterranean than Northern European countries, according to background information…

Earth Sciences

Rising sea levels are increasing the risk of flooding along the south coast of England

The team has conducted a major data collection exercise, bringing together computer and paper-based records from across the south of England, from the Scilly…

Life & Chemistry

New cancer gene discovered

A new cancer gene has been discovered by a research group at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The gene causes an insidious form…

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