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Life & Chemistry

New Genetic Code Reveals How DNA Is Organized in Nucleus

The precise location of the nucleosomes along the DNA is known to play an important role in the cell's day to day function, since access to DNA wrapped in a…

Studies and Analyses

Giving Up Driving: Pathway to Long-Term Care Insights

Although the slower driving habits of some seniors often steam impatient younger motorists, researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have found that…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Unlocking Corn Waste: Cellulose Innovations Beyond Ethanol

“People are looking at using cellulose to make ethanol,” says Dr. Bruce E. Logan, the Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering. “You can make ethanol from…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Serotonin’s Role in Appetite Control

That knowledge could aid in the design of safer anti-obesity drugs nearly a decade after Fen-phen was banned for causing harmful side effects.The study, which…

Life & Chemistry

New Disorder Linked to Chronic Diarrhea in Children Uncovered

UCLA researchers have unraveled a mysterious condition that causes congenital diarrhea and intestinal failure in children. The new disorder, named enteric…

Materials Sciences

New Composite Materials: Graphene-Based Sheets Innovation

The method uses graphite to produce individual graphene-based sheets with exceptional physical, chemical and barrier properties that could be mixed into…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Malignant Brain Tumor Origins Uncovered

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla and Erica L. Jackson, of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues reported their findings in a paper in the July 20,…

Environmental Conservation

Pollution Hinders Coral Healing: A Growing Environmental Concern

Coral tissue damage that normally heals on its own will not mend when the colonies are near pollution sources on land that release industrial chemicals, fuel…

Life & Chemistry

Protein Discovery Linked to Brain Cell Death Uncovered

They report their findings in the Journal of Biological Chemistry article, “Fibrillar Beta-Amyloid Stimulated Intracellular Signaling Cascades Require Vav for…

Physics & Astronomy

Fast, Flexible Plastic Computer Chips from UW-Madison Team

Historically, the semiconductor industry has relied on flat, two-dimensional chips upon which to grow and etch the thin films of material that become…

Environmental Conservation

Tiny Airborne Particles: Key Players in Climate Change Impact

A scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and his colleagues caused a storm in the atmospheric community when they suggested a few years back that tiny…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals Reactions to Deadly Heat Situations

“Heat is a stealth killer,” says Dr. Scott Sheridan, Kent State associate professor in geography. Funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, Sheridan…

Life & Chemistry

Figuring out function from bacteria's bewildering forms

A new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Indiana University Bloomington scientists answers that form-and-function question for…

Studies and Analyses

Connecting Quantum Dots: New Insights for Disease Design

A new study, published today in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has significant implications for the design of disease…

Life & Chemistry

Phytoplankton Research: Small Organisms, Big Global Impact

While phytoplankton scientists focus their research on some of the smallest organisms in the world, the impacts can be global. This week, in Proceedings of the…

Environmental Conservation

Direct Link Revealed Between Tropical Trees and Insect Diversity

Understanding the drivers of the high diversity in tropical forests has been a major question since Darwin and Wallace visited tropical forestsand even before,…

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