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Researcher Uncovers Potential Key to Curing Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is a contagious disease that is on the rise, killing 1.5 to 2 million people worldwide annually.Reuben…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Conflict in Fish Led to Evolution of New Sex Chromosomes

In research published in the journal Science (October 1, 2009), Professor Thomas D. Kocher, Department of Biology, College of Chemical and Life Sciences; Reade…

Life & Chemistry

Color Plays Musical Chairs in the Brain

The brain’s neural mechanisms keep straight which color belongs to what object, so one doesn’t mistakenly see a blue flamingo in a pink lake. But what happens…

Materials Sciences

New Material May Expand Uses for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Though the long-term durability of the new mixed ion conductor material must still be proven, its development could address two of the most vexing problems…

Life & Chemistry

Umbilical Cord Blood as a Readily Available Source for Off-the-shelf, Patient-specific Stem Cells

“Cord blood stem cells could serve as a safe, “ready-to-use” source for the generation of iPS cells, since they are easily accessible, immunologically immature…

Life & Chemistry

“Anti-Atkins” Low Protein Diet Extends Lifespan in Flies

The findings, which appear in the October 2 edition of Cell, also provide a new level of understanding of the regulation of mitochondrial genes and open new…

Studies and Analyses

Economists Study Birth Order and Risk Taking

An experimental economist at The Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina and a recently graduated doctoral student think so — and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Rensselaer Researchers to Develop and Test Next-Generation Radar Systems

The new test bed, led by Birsen Yazici, associate professor of electrical, computer, and systems engineering, will allow simulations of radar systems that are…

Environmental Conservation

Planet's Nitrogen Cycle Overturned by 'Tiny Ammonia Eater of the Seas'

The findings, published online today in the journal Nature, show that these microorganisms, members of ancient lineage called archaea, beat out all other…

Life & Chemistry

In Search of Wildlife-friendly Biofuels: Could Native Prairie Plants Be the Answer

In a paper published in the latest issue of the journal BioScience, David Flaspohler, Joseph Fargione and colleagues analyze the impacts on wildlife of the…

Earth Sciences

Coal Mining Hazard Resembles Explosive Volcanic Eruption

New research by scientists at the University of Michigan and Peking University in Beijing, China, suggests that the outbursts occur through a process very…

Awards Funding

FRIM Wins Mahathir Science Award for Tropical Innovation

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak presented the award under the category of Tropical Natural Resources in recognition of FRIM’s significant role in the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Forecasting solar-energy harvests

Most life on earth depends on the sun to provide the energy needed to sustain its function. For more than a billion years, photosynthesis—a mechanism that has…

Life & Chemistry

Innovation via genetic ‘googling’

Many diseases are caused by genetic mutations. Researchers can use a technique called linkage analysis to identify rough intervals on the chromosome that might…

Health & Medicine

Intensive Care Units: Addressing Challenges in End-of-Life Care

Most relatives are nevertheless happy with the care given, shows a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.An intensive…

Earth Sciences

Come Together, Right Now … Tropical Depression 18W Dissipates, Parma Intensifies

NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the two storms and captured them in one image (because they're close to each other). Parma is located west of 18W's remnants….

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