News tagged with cell chemistry
Solar-powered process could decrease carbon dioxide to pre-industrial levels in 10 years
(PhysOrg.com) -- By using the sun's visible light and heat to power an electrolysis cell that captures and converts carbon dioxide from the air, a new technique could impressively clean the atmosphere and ...
Jul 22, 2010 |
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Scientists discover new kind of blue-green algae with carbonates in their cells
(Phys.org) -- Researchers studying organisms in Mexico's Lake Alchichica have discovered a new species of cyanobacterium that unlike any other ever found, has bony, intracellular carbonates. Up till now, specimens with such ...
Apr 30, 2012 |
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Japanese researchers turn a crab shell transparent
A group of researchers working out of Kyoto University in Japan have successfully transformed a normal crab into one that is transparent. As they describe in their paper published in the British Royal Society ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Last universal common ancestor more complex than previously thought
Scientists call it LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor, but they don't know much about this great-grandparent of all living things. Many believe LUCA was little more than a crude assemblage of molecular parts, a chemical ...
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Breakthrough in hydrogen fuel cells: Chemists develop way to safely store, extract hydrogen
A team of USC scientists has developed a robust, efficient method of using hydrogen as a fuel source.
Aug 30, 2011 |
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Identical virus, host populations can prevail for centuries
A Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientist, analyzing ancient plankton DNA signatures in sediments of the Black Sea, has found for the first time that the same genetic populations of a virus and its algal host ...
Jul 21, 2011 |
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New insights on an old polymer material, Nafion, will enable design of better batteries
Designing new materials depends upon understanding the properties of today's materials. One such material, Nafion, is a polymer that efficiently conducts ions (a polymer electrolyte) and water through its ...
Jun 19, 2011 |
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Resolving water's electrical properties
An old confusion about the electrical properties of water's surface has ended, thanks to scientists at Pacific Northwest and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. The conflict arose because two types of ...
May 18, 2011 |
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'Quantum coaxial cable': Device proves solar cell potential of high bandgap inorganic nanowire arrays
A report, published in the March 14 edition of the Journal of Materials Chemistry, announced the successful fabrication and testing of a new type solar cell using an inorganic core/shell nanowire structure.
Apr 12, 2011 |
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The future of metabolic engineering -- designer molecules, cells and microorganisms
(PhysOrg.com) -- Will we one day design and create molecules, cells and microorganisms that produce specific chemical products from simple, readily-available, inexpensive starting materials? Will the synthetic ...
Dec 02, 2010 |
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Blocking an oncogene in liver cancer could be potential therapy option
Scientists have found that a synthetic molecule they designed can block activation of a gene in liver cancer cells, halting a process that allows some of those cancer cells to survive chemotherapy.
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Leaf-like solar cells: Water-based 'artificial leaf' produces electricity
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by a North Carolina State University researcher has shown that water-gel-based solar devices - "artificial leaves" - can act like solar cells to produce electricity. The findings prove the concept ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 24, 2010 |
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New genetic mechanism that controls body's fat-building process found
At a time of alarming increases in obesity and associated diseases -- and fiery debates about the cost of health care -- a UCF research team has identified a new genetic mechanism that controls the body's fat-building process.
Aug 26, 2009 |
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'Surprising link' leads toward a new antibiotic
(PhysOrg.com) -- As the best drugs become increasingly resistant to superbugs, McMaster University researchers have discovered a completely different way of looking for a new antibiotic.
May 28, 2009 |
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Enabling graphene-based technology via chemical functionalization
Graphene is an atomically thin sheet of carbon that has attracted significant attention due to its potential use in high-performance electronics, sensors and alternative energy devices such as solar cells. While the physics ...
May 17, 2009 |
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