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Life & Chemistry

Innovative Fungal Solution for BPA Plastic Decomposition

Mukesh Doble and Trishul Artham note that manufacturers produce about 2.7 million tons of plastic containing BPA each year. Polycarbonate is an extremely…

Life & Chemistry

Snake Venom Studies Offer New Insights for Heart Disease Therapies

The Japanese team is reporting in a Journal of Biological Chemistry “Paper of the Week” that they are optimistic that inhibiting a protein found on the surface…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Restoring Flood Plains: Boosting Agriculture and Economy

When the Missouri River flooded in 1993 and 1995, it left a deep layer of sandy silt that covered thousands of acres of rich farmland. Now, MU forestry…

Environmental Conservation

Brain Size Influences Foraging Behavior in Brook Trout

Prof. Rob McLaughlin has discovered that foraging behaviour of brook trout is related to the size of a particular region in the fish’s brain.”We found that the…

Physics & Astronomy

UA Stereo Camera Chosen for NASA Mars Exploration Mission

NASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA, have embarked on a joint program to explore Mars in the coming decades and have selected five science instruments –…

Process Engineering

Beware the Dim Laser Pointer: Researchers Measure High Infrared Power Levels from Some Green Lasers

Now, a team led by physicist Charles Clark at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) puts some numbers to the problem. In one case, the…

Health & Medicine

UR Unveils Method to Enhance Vaccines Using Diabetes Molecules

Richard P. Phipps, Ph.D., found that the same molecules used in drugs that treat diabetes also stimulate B cells in the immune system, pushing them to make…

Life & Chemistry

Sugar Solutions: Tackling Oil Spill Challenges

The environment has often suffered from the catastrophic effects of an oil spill, the most recent example being the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The search

Studies and Analyses

UCSF Study Sheds Light on Blood Stem Cells and Leukemia Link

The study, reported in “Cell Stem Cell” (Aug. 6, 2010) and reviewed in Cell Stem Cell and Cell, opens a new frontier for studying the molecular underpinnings…

Life & Chemistry

Scared Snails Choose Solo Parenting Over Waiting for Mates

Solitary snails in search of a mate put off parenthood as long as possible in the hopes that a partner will appear. But when Physa acuta snails smell…

Physics & Astronomy

LISA Gravitational-Wave Mission Gets National Research Council Support

In the just-concluded “Astro2010” decadal survey, a panel of experts was convened to look at the coming decade and prioritize all research activities in…

Medical Engineering

New 3D Imaging System Enhances Heart Rhythm Disorder Treatment

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have developed a novel 3-D imaging approach that may improve the accuracy of…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Identify Protein That Destroys HIV

The finding could lead to new TRIM5a-based treatments that would knock out HIV in humans, said senior researcher Edward M. Campbell, PhD, of Loyola University…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Therapy Advances for Effective Epilepsy Treatment

These side-effects could be eliminated if genes that counteract seizures could be introduced into the brain. Professor Merab Kokaia at Lund University in…

Physics & Astronomy

Origin of Supermassive Black Holes: New Insights Unveiled

Lucio Mayer, Professor for Theoretical Physics at the University of Zurich, and his team are convinced that they have discovered the origin of the first…

Health & Medicine

Targeted Medicine: How Magnets Enhance Treatment Precision

Associate Professor Maria Kempe, her brother and colleague Dr Henrik Kempe and members of staff at Skåne University Hospital have shown that the principle…

Environmental Conservation

Coral off Puerto Rico's coast 'ideal case study' for Gulf oil spill's impact

University of Central Florida biologist John Fauth, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists and non-governmental agencies are…

Life & Chemistry

New Springy Polymer Shrinks After Stretching, Study Reveals

Now a Duke and Stanford chemistry team has found a polymer molecule that’s so springy it snaps back from stretching much smaller than it was before.Duke…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting Same Star

Today’s announcement of the discovery of the two planets, Kepler 9b and 9c, is based on seven months of observations of more than 156,000 stars being monitored…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Decode All Genes in One Breakthrough Study

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and the Institute of Medical Genetics at the Charité Universitätsmedizin – Berlin have succeeded…

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