Red algae, in contrast, use a slightly different mechanism and are thus more productive. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) in…
The embryonic enzyme pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2) has a well-established role in metabolism and is highly expressed in human cancers. Now, a team led by…
Hyderabad, India and Shenzhen, China, 06 November 2011 – Once referred to as an “orphan crop” mainly grown by poor farmers, pigeonpea is now set to join the…
Researchers at the University of Southern California have identified two molecules that may be more effective cancer killers than are currently available on…
A Northwestern University research team has developed a computational method that can save scientists and engineers valuable time in the discovery process. The…
A jumping gene with the fairy tale name “Sleeping Beauty” has helped to unlock vital clues for researchers investigating the genetics of colorectal cancer.A…
In many pharmaceutical company and university laboratories, scientists are looking closely at kinase complexes because the enzymes play key roles in essential…
Now, a group of Scripps Research Institute scientists has successfully achieved a major step toward the goal of synthetically producing Taxol® and other…
This sequestered carbon is more than 250 times the amount of greenhouse gas emissions attributed to the United States in the year 2009. As global temperatures…
Measles virus is perhaps the most contagious virus in the world, affecting 10 million children worldwide each year and accounting for 120,000 deaths. An…
Sustainable seafood initiatives, including certification and ecolabeling and awareness schemes, could be extended to more effectively cover inland, freshwater…
Hence, complicated patient-near sampling and testing can be performed. Via the use of information and communication technologies the system is mobile and can…
This was achieved through the first successful establishment of cell cultures from frozen biopsy specimens of the critically endangered Mississippi gopher…
Deep in Grace's cortex, millions of neurons were hard at work doing what they apparently had been built to do: act and react to partner Tristan MacManus's…
A team of researchers, led by Katherine Osteryoung, MSU plant biologist, announced the discovery of Clumped Chloroplasts – a new class of proteins – in the…
Now researchers at UCLA have identified the group of neurons that mediates whether light arouses us — or not. Jerome Siegel, a professor of psychiatry at the…
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