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Life & Chemistry

New Nanoparticles Enhance Therapeutic Drug Discovery Process

Understanding the structure of proteins is a vital first step in developing new drugs, but to date, drug development has been slowed because due to their…

Studies and Analyses

Nematode Courtship Captured: Insights from Caltech Research

Writing in the open access journal BMC Biology, Allyson Whittaker and Paul Sternberg from the California Institute of Technology investigated the role of the…

Health & Medicine

Eczema Patients at Risk for Serious Viral Infections Identified

The findings, published June 22 in the online version of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, could help identify people at risk for serious…

Life & Chemistry

Gladstone scientists identify key factor that controls HIV latency

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) have found another clue that may lead to eradication of HIV from infected patients who…

Life & Chemistry

STAT3 protein found to play a key role in cancer

The study, published in the June 26th issue of the journal Science, found that STAT3, in addition to its role in the cell nucleus regulating gene expression,…

Event News

New Worlds – New Solutions – Research and Innovation as a Basis for Developing Europe in a Global Context

The Conference will take place in Lund, Sweden, on 7-8 July 2009 (at Lund University), and will be opened by the Minister for Higher Education and Research,…

Earth Sciences

Researchers Contribute Climate Model to Study That Finds Some Winds Decreasing

Declining wind speeds in parts of the United States could impact more than the wind power industry, say Iowa State University climate researchers.Three Iowa…

Health & Medicine

Projected Food, Energy Demands Seen to Outpace Production

The report, produced by Deutsche Bank, one of the world's leading global investment banks, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nelson…

Studies and Analyses

High Carbon Dioxide Levels Cause Abnormally Large Fish Ear Bones

Rising carbon dioxide levels in the ocean have been shown to adversely affect shell-forming creatures and corals, and now a new study by researchers at Scripps…

Life & Chemistry

Cells Use Same Machinery to Import and Export Goods

In the bustling economy of the cell, little bubbles called vesicles serve as container ships, ferrying cargo to and from the port – the cell membrane. Some of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Efficient generation of power from finely chopped material

The new biomass heating and power station of the Zweckverband Restmüllheizkraftwerk Böblingen (RBB) in the German Land of Baden-Württemberg has now started…

Corporate News

Railway line in Saudi Arabia equipped with latest signaling and communications technology from Siemens

The rail link between Dammam and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia has been equipped with the most up-to-date signaling and telecommunications systems from Siemens…

Life & Chemistry

Water-powered reactions

The researchers mainly focus on the enzyme P450 StaP, which belongs to the cytochrome P450 enzyme family. These enzymes are involved in metabolic and…

Life & Chemistry

Taking proteins for a ride

Cells produce thousands of proteins that are essential for life, but the proteins are of no use unless they can be delivered to the right places. Now, Ken…

Life & Chemistry

Pioneering research on nuclear noncoding RNA

Shinichi NakagawaInitiative Research ScientistNakagawa Initiative Research UnitRIKEN Advanced Science InstituteResearch on the function of a type of RNA called…

Life & Chemistry

Songbird Brains

The finding, detailed this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was a surprise, said principal investigator David Clayton, a professor…

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