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Life & Chemistry

New Tool Offers Insights Into Biomolecules in Motion

The ability of biomolecules to flex and bend is important for the performance of many functions within living cells. However, researchers interested in how…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Accelerated Stability Testing for Soy-Based Biofuel Developed

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a method to accelerate stability testing of biodiesel fuel made from soybeans and also…

Physics & Astronomy

Smart Lighting: New LED Drops the “Droop”

The new polarization-matched LED, developed in collaboration with Samsung Electro-Mechanics, exhibits an 18 percent increase in light output and a 22 percent…

Studies and Analyses

Prenatal Chemical Exposure Linked to Higher BMI in Toddlers

Recent reviews support the hypothesis that even brief exposures early in life to endocrine-disrupting chemicals like pesticides,…

Technology Offerings

MMPace – a novel screening assay for MMP-Inhibitors

A wide range of human diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, arthritis and, most of all, cancer, goes along with malfunctions in the regulation of matrix…

Studies and Analyses

Tequila Boom: Challenges for Mexico’s Environment and Society

Tequila is distilled from the blue agave plant and, according to Mexican law, can only be produced in an area encompassing the state of Jalisco and parts of…

Environmental Conservation

'Refinery dust' reveals clues about local polluters

Cloaked in the clouds of emissions and exhaust that hang over the city are clues that lead back to the polluting culprits, and a research team led by the…

Health & Medicine

New Mouse Model Unlocks Insights Into Peanut Allergy Research

The animal model provides a new research tool that will be invaluable in furthering the understanding of the causes of peanut and other food allergies and in…

Environmental Conservation

Top 5 Invasive Plants Threatening Southern Forests Today

U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) Ecologist Jim Miller, Ph.D., one of the foremost authorities on nonnative plants in the South, today…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Unveil Structure of Key Ebola Protein

A team led by Gaya Amarasinghe, an assistant professor in biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology, has recently solved the structure from a key part of…

Studies and Analyses

Most heart attack patients' cholesterol levels did not indicate cardiac risk

Specifically, these patients had low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels that met current guidelines, and close to half had LDL levels classified in…

Studies and Analyses

Local Revenue Drops? Study Links Increased Traffic Citations

A new study to be published in next month's Journal of Law and Economics finds statistical evidence that local governments use traffic citations to make up for…

Life & Chemistry

Tiny Capsules Transform Drug Delivery for Safer Treatments

“People probably fear the effects of some treatments more than they fear the disease they treat,” says Huda A. Jerri, graduate student, chemical engineering….

Life & Chemistry

Invasive Fish Threatens Ebro Delta Ecosystem

The fish comes from East Asia and was first discovered in the Ebro delta in 2001. Since then, it has occupied various parts of the river during its lightning…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists find that 'stellar cannibalism' is key to formation of overweight stars

Dr Christian Knigge, Reader in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southampton, Alison Sills, associate professor in physics and astronomy…

Health & Medicine

New Warning Systems to Help Young Men Facing Substance Abuse

A common warning system for paramedics, care centres and social services has to be developed according to Stian Biong, who has defended his thesis at the…

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