News tagged with molecular origin
'Ay, there's the rub': Researchers strive to identify the atomic origins of wear
To slide; perchance to fatigue. "Wear is so common in sliding systems that it has acquired this air of inevitability," says Greg Sawyer, a professor in mechanical engineering at the University of Florida who leads a team ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Powerful supercomputer peers into the origin of life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Supercomputer simulations at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping scientists unravel how nucleic acids could have contributed to the origins of life.
Oct 04, 2010 |
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Transition metal catalysts could be key to origin of life, scientists report
One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals -- such as amino acids and nucleotides -- have arisen before the biological ...
Sep 03, 2010 |
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Marker of Ewing sarcoma: Potential new drug target?
Ewing sarcoma (EWS) is a bone tumor of unknown cellular origin that affects children and young adults.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 08, 2010 |
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Toward the design of greener consumer products
So you're a manufacturer about to introduce a new consumer product to the marketplace. Will that product or the manufacture of the product contribute to global warming through the greenhouse effect?
Sep 16, 2009 |
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A genetic basis for schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a severely debilitating psychiatric disease that is thought to have its roots in the development of the nervous system; however, major breakthroughs linking its genetics to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment ...
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Space rock yields answers about origins of life on Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Formic acid, a compound implicated in the origins of life, has been found at record levels on a meteorite that fell onto a frozen Canadian lake in 2000.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Back to basics: Scientists discover a fundamental mechanism for cell organization (w/Video)
Scientists have discovered that cells use a very simple phase transition -- similar to water vapor condensing into dew -- to assemble and localize subcellular structures that are involved in formation of the embryo.
May 21, 2009 |
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Darwin's Tree of Life May Be More Like a Thicket
(PhysOrg.com) -- In On The Origin of Species, Darwin used the image of a tree of life to illustrate how species evolve, one from another. Even today, branches sprouting from lower branches (representing ancest ...
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