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Life & Chemistry

New Stem Cell Tools Enhance Drug Development Efforts

A collaborative team of scientists from Durham University and the North East England Stem Cell Institute (NESCI) have developed two synthetic molecules which…

Studies and Analyses

New Research Confirms Effectiveness of Popular Diet Programs

A new scientific analysis, published today in BioMed Central’s open access Nutrition Journal, provides comprehensive dietary data about Slim Fast, Atkins,…

Life & Chemistry

Energy-Saving Bacteria Show Antibiotic Resistance Breakthrough

The moonlighting activity of one enzyme from the tuberculosis bacterium makes it partially resistant to a family of broad-spectrum antibiotics, according to a…

Physics & Astronomy

Analysis Begins on Phoenix Lander's Deepest Soil Sample

Phoenix has also been observing movement of clouds overhead.The lander's robotic arm on Sunday sprinkled a small fraction of the estimated 50 cubic centimeters…

Life & Chemistry

Artificial Meadows & Robot Spiders: Unveiling Bee Secrets

Dr Tom Ings of Queen Mary, University of London will tell the British Ecological Society's Annual Meeting at Imperial College, London about how he and his…

Environmental Conservation

Ecologists search for invasive ladybird’s weak spot

Speaking at the British Ecological Society's Annual Meeting at Imperial College, London, Dr Helen Roy from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology will explain how…

Technology Offerings

New Method for Synthesis of Desogestrel Unveiled

Scientists at the University of Göttingen achieved a process for the synthesis of the oral contraceptive desogestrel providing the desired natural compound…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Ansamitocin Analogues Show Promise for Tumor Therapy

The invention comprises designed novel biologically highly potent ansamitocin analogues for tumor therapy, inlcuding among other new 19-deschloro and demethoxy…

Technology Offerings

New Biomarkers Enhance Diabetic Nephropathy Diagnosis

Diabetes is, after arterial hypertension, the 2nd most common disease in industrialized countries. Identification of markers for the prediction of the clinical…

Earth Sciences

Ice Age Insights: Faster Sea Level Rise Predicted

Writing this week (Aug. 31) in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin-Madison geologist Anders Carlson reports…

Life & Chemistry

New Genes Linked to Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Children

Researchers have discovered two new genes that increase the risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in childhood.While further study is needed to…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Key Discovery Boosts Cold Tolerance in Corn Crops

If corn's intolerance of low temperatures could be overcome, then the length of the growing season, and yield, could be increased at present sites of…

Earth Sciences

Magmatically Triggered Slow Earthquake Found at Kilauea

Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Hawaiian…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

No more big stink: Scent lures mosquitoes, but humans can’t smell it

A University of California, Davis research team led by chemical ecologist Walter Leal has discovered a low-cost, easy-to-prepare attractant that lures…

Earth Sciences

Antarctic Research Reveals Climate Change Insights for Mars

The parallels between the Martian gullies and those in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys were made using the latest high-resolution images and technology from…

Studies and Analyses

'Armored' fish study helps strengthen Darwin's natural selection theory

Measuring three to 10 centimetres long, stickleback fish originated in the ocean but began populating freshwater lakes and streams following the last ice age….

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