The study, whose lead author was David Holland, director of the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, part of New York University's Courant Institute of…
The gene may prove to be useful for breeding high-yield rice and, thus, may benefit the vast number of people who rely on this staple food for survival. “Our…
The results are published online this week and appear in the October issue of Nature Neuroscience. The protein beta-catenin acts like a Velcro strap, fastening…
The new technique also could help to speed the development of therapies in which cancer-fighting proteins are selectively delivered to tumors.The procedure,…
“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first published report of PCB11 in ambient air,” said Keri Hornbuckle, UI professor of civil and environmental…
Each year at the end of summer, sea ice in the Arctic melts to reach its annual minimum. Ice that remains, or “perennial ice,” has survived from year to year…
Reporting in the current online edition of the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, UCLA psychiatry professor Dr. Arthur L. Brody and colleagues…
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in a study funded by USDA and NIH, discovered that not only was one of the carrier proteins for vitamin A,…
Taylor and other scientists will present their research on lunar dust at the “Living on a Dusty Moon” session on Thursday, 9 October 2008, at the Joint Meeting…
Uch37 is a “deubiquitinating enzyme” that can remove protein tags (called ubiquitin) from other proteins. The presence of one kind of ubiquitin tag on a…
Metcalf set out to understand how this compound, one of a group known as phosphonates, is made in nature by bacteria. He was interested in that process partly…
No one, until now, has discovered how much force is required to initiate an object's movement through grains. The result may be useful for engineering…
As hurricanes have pounded the Gulf of Mexico this fall, the media has been filled with the words of politicians, policy makers, NGOs and local communities…
The results provide a new model of behavior for the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, a well studied protein involved in inflammation, Alzheimer's disease,…
“They don’t make the connection between the fact that they snore loudly at night and they complain about being tired during the day,” says Samuel Krachman,…
“We investigated mechanisms of action to explain the cholesterol-lowering effects of the pistachio diets,” says Sarah K. Gebauer, recent Penn State Ph.D….
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