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Study resolves debate on human cell shut-down process

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have resolved the debate over the mechanisms involved in the shut-down process during cell division in the body.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nutrient data in time for the new year

Two timely nutrient data sets provided by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are being used by the beef and pork industries to provide new Nutrition Facts labels for their products. Federal rules ...

Biology / Other

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Structure of a molecular copy machine: How mitochondrial genes are transcribed

Mitochondria are compartments within cells and have their own DNA. The key protein required for the expression of the genetic information in this DNA is the mitochondrial RNA polymerase enzyme. Its three-dimensional structure ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

ADA supports national restaurant menu labeling legislation

The government's role in improving the nation's nutrition is now firmly established with nutritional labeling for restaurant meals now mandated across the United States as part of HR 3590 Patient Protection and Affordable ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Expedition studies acid impacts on Arctic

The effects of ocean acidification on Arctic seas will be studied by a team of 30 researchers, including Dr Toby Tyrrell from the University of Southampton, who set sail from the UK today (1 June), venturing ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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Speeding up drug discovery with rapid 3-D mapping of proteins

A new method for rapidly solving the three-dimensional structures of a special group of proteins, known as integral membrane proteins, may speed drug discovery by providing scientists with precise targets ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Diagnostic labs analyze from bugs to toenails

Found an odd bug in your closet? Rhododendrons inexplicably wilting? Need a toenail analyzed? There's a lab for that.

Biology / Other

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New models to predict coral bleaching

(Phys.org) -- Curtin University researchers have used computational fluid dynamics and powerful supercomputers to create new models for understanding and predicting coral bleaching.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Southern pine beetle impacts on forest ecosystems

Research by USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists shows that the impacts of recent outbreaks of southern pine beetle further degraded shortleaf pine-hardwood forest ecosystems in the southern Appalachian ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Green fuel is possible with artificial ecosystems

For algae to power our cars and planes, production needs to be low carbon and cost effective, which means working with natural processes, not against them, say scientists.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Tracking nutrient pollutant in Chesapeake

Too much of a good thing can kill you, the saying goes.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A push from the Mississippi kept Deepwater Horizon oil slick off shore, research shows

When the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded April 20, 2010, residents feared that their Gulf of Mexico shores would be inundated with oil. And while many wetland habitats and wildlife were oiled during the three-month ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists core into California's Clear Lake to explore past climate change

(Phys.org) -- University of California, Berkeley, scientists are drilling into ancient sediments at the bottom of Northern California's Clear Lake for clues that could help them better predict how today's ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Microbes go rafting on floating volcanic rocks

Volcanoes bring death and destruction, but out of the ashes life soon finds fertile ground. A unique experiment is sifting through floating debris from an ongoing volcanic event to see how microbes move in. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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