Archive: 10/31/2006
Scientists Convert Modern Enzyme into its Hypothesized Ancestor
By making a single substitution in the amino acid sequence of a modern enzyme, scientists have changed its function into that of a theoretical distant ancestor, providing the first experimental evidence for ...
Oct 31, 2006 |
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The power behind insect flight: Researchers reveal key kinetic component
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Vermont have discovered a key molecular mechanism that allows tiny flies and other "no-see-ums" to whirl their wings at a dizzying rate of up to 1,000 ...
Biology /
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Public still suspicious of scientists
‘Our arrogance cost us the GM debate’ is the message to academics and business delegates at the White Rose Bioscience Forum today (Tuesday 31 October).
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Planning for failure makes better business sense, as long as it cheap and quick
Biotech companies involved in drug development should plan for failure, rather than success, says Dr Wilding, of Ian Wilding Associates.
Oct 31, 2006 |
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First step to test tube rhinos
Scientists from the Leibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) in Berlin, Germany, together with veterinarians from Australia, have performed a world first by harvesting egg cells from a black rhino ...
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Oct 31, 2006 |
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Nanotechnology goes out on a wing
What does a colorful and noisy backyard insect have to do with nanotechnology? Plenty, according to Jin Zhang and Zhongfan Liu, both professors at Peking University.
Oct 31, 2006 |
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NASA to launch shuttle mission for Hubble telescope (Update)
Shuttle astronauts will make one final house call to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a mission to extend and improve the observatory's capabilities through 2013. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Can Helium-4 Transition to a Supersolid?
For forty years supersolid behavior has been predicted, and since the 1970s, theories about supersolid behavior involving helium-4 have been developed. However, it wasn’t until 2004 that some evidence of supersolid behavior ...
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Microwave pre-cooking of chips reduces cancer chemicals
Microwaving your chips before you fry them reduces the levels of a cancer-causing substance, reveals findings published today in the SCI’s Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Bacteria could make new library of cancer drugs that are too complex to create artificially
Researchers at the University of Warwick are examining a way of using bacteria to manufacture a new suite of potential anti-cancer drugs that are difficult to create synthetically on a lab bench.
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Mass copying of genes speeds up evolution
In the latest issue of PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a Swedish-American team of researchers show how selective gene amplification-mass copying of a specific gene-can increase the speed with which ...
Biology /
Oct 31, 2006 |
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