Power behind primordial soup discovered
(Phys.org) —Researchers at the University of Leeds may have solved a key puzzle about how objects from space could have kindled life on Earth.
Apr 04, 2013
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Researchers print transistor on nearly transparent nanopaper
(Phys.org)—Researchers at the University of Maryland have succeeded in creating a transistor using a new kind of paper as a base. As the team describes in their paper published in the journal ACS Nano, they w ...
Feb 06, 2013
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Turning toxic by-product into biofuel booster: Engineered enzyme increases output of alkanes
Scientists studying an enzyme that naturally produces alkanes—long carbon-chain molecules that could be a direct replacement for the hydrocarbons in gasoline—have figured out why the natural reaction ...
Feb 04, 2013
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Researchers unveil first artificial enzyme created by evolution in test tube
(Phys.org)—There's a wobbly new biochemical structure in Burckhard Seelig's lab at the University of Minnesota that may resemble what enzymes looked like billions of years ago, when life on earth began ...
Jan 30, 2013
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Protein engineers create new biocatalysts
Protein engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have tapped into a hidden talent of one of nature's most versatile catalysts. The enzyme cytochrome P450 is nature's premier oxidation catalyst—a protein ...
Dec 20, 2012
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Hydrogel remembers its shape
(Phys.org)—A bit reminiscent of the Terminator T-1000, a new material created by Cornell researchers is so soft that it can flow like a liquid and then, strangely, return to its original shape.
Dec 05, 2012
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X-ray laser helps fight sleeping sickness: Exploiting parasite's weak spot may lead to new treatments
An international group of scientists working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has mapped a weak spot in the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, pinpointing a promising new target for ...
Nov 29, 2012
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Scientists unveil 3-D structure of 'molecular machine' that initiates DNA transcription after 3 decades of searching
An team of Rutgers University scientists led by Richard H. Ebright and Eddy Arnold has determined the three-dimensional structure of the transcription initiation complex, the key intermediate in the process by which cells ...
Oct 18, 2012
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Cancer research yields unexpected new way to produce nylon
In their quest for a cancer cure, researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute made a serendipitous discovery—a molecule necessary for cheaper and greener ways to produce nylon.
Sep 23, 2012
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New energy source for future medical implants: sugar
MIT engineers have developed a fuel cell that runs on the same sugar that powers human cells: glucose. This glucose fuel cell could be used to drive highly efficient brain implants of the future, which ...
Jun 13, 2012
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Totally rad: Scientists create rewritable digital data storage in DNA
(Phys.org) -- Scientists from Stanford's Department of Bioengineering have devised a method for repeatedly encoding, storing and erasing digital data within the DNA of living cells.
May 21, 2012
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Group finds circadian clock common to almost all life forms
(Phys.org) -- A group of biology researchers, led by Akhilesh Reddy from Cambridge University have found an enzyme that they believe serves as a circadian clock that operates in virtually all forms of life. ...
May 17, 2012
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Turning up the heat on biofuels
(Phys.org) —The production of biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass would benefit on several levels if carried out at temperatures between 65 and 70 degrees Celsius. Researchers with the Energy Biosciences ...
May 16, 2013
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Study finds synergy in two approaches to breaking down cell walls of biomass
Enzymes could break down cell walls faster – leading to less expensive biofuels for transportation – if two enzyme systems are brought together in an industrial setting, new research by the Energy Department's National ...
May 07, 2013
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New mechanism discovered in meiosis
Inactivated, but still active– how modification of an enzyme governs critical processes in sexual reproduction.
May 03, 2013
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