(PhysOrg.com) -- A new way of splitting layered materials, similar to graphite, into sheets of material just one atom thick could lead to revolutionary new electronic and energy storage technologies.
Nanomaterials
Feb 3, 2011
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The potentially deadly bacterium Salmonella possesses a molecular machine that marshals the proteins it needs to hijack cellular mechanisms and infect millions worldwide.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 3, 2011
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New research shows that the 2010 Amazon drought may have been even more devastating to the region's rainforests than the unusual 2005 drought, which was previously billed as a one-in-100 year event.
Earth Sciences
Feb 3, 2011
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A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has discovered a new way to stabilize proteins — the workhorse biological macromolecules found in all organisms. Proteins serve as the functional basis of many types ...
Biotechnology
Feb 3, 2011
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Complexity ever in the eye of its beholders, the animal with the most genes -- about 31,000 -- is the near-microscopic freshwater crustacean Daphnia pulex, or water flea. By comparison, humans have about 23,000 genes. Daphnia ...
Biotechnology
Feb 3, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Timing is everything in the long-standing arms race between the flowering plant Arabidopsis and Hyaloperonospora, a downy mildew pathogen.
Biotechnology
Feb 3, 2011
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Ever since researchers devised a recipe for turning adult cells into cells that look and act like embryonic stem cells, there has been lingering doubt in the field about just how close to embryonic stem cells each of those ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 3, 2011
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When Jake Hoelter moves around Microsoft Corp.'s Mountain View, Calif., campus, an Apple MacBook Pro tucked under his arm, the engineer gets The Look from colleagues.
Software
Feb 3, 2011
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The aggressive wolverine may not be powerful enough to survive climate change in the contiguous United States, new research concludes.
Environment
Feb 3, 2011
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While there is no doubt that the ethical controversy surrounding human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research has given rise to an uncertain policy environment, the true impact of years of frequent policy changes has not been ...
Biotechnology
Feb 3, 2011
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