News tagged with iron transport
Big, bad bacterium is an 'iron pirate'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Life inside the human body sometimes looks like life on the high seas in the 1600s, when pirates hijacked foreign vessels in search of precious metals.
Feb 21, 2012 |
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Nanonets give rust a boost as agent in water splitting's hydrogen harvest
Coating a lattice of tiny wires called Nanonets with iron oxide – known more commonly as rust – creates an economical and efficient platform for the process of water splitting, an emerging clean ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 09, 2011 |
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It's a grind to make Mars red
(PhysOrg.com) -- The widespread idea that Mars is red due to rocks being rusted by the water that once flooded the red planet may be wrong. Recent laboratory studies show that the red dust may be formed by ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2009 |
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