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Genes ex silico: Computer-designed virus yields phenotype expression benefits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gene therapy is medicine’s rising star with adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors – nonpathogenic parvoviruses – among the most promising supporting actors, due largely to their ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Iron-pnictide electron orbital pairing promises higher-temperature superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- The quest to develop a so-called room-temperature superconductor – one that exhibits lossless electronic transmission – has long fueled both popular and scientific imagination. At ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Ultrafast laser helps to better understand high-temperature superconductors

Superconductivity, in which electric current flows without resistance, promises huge energy savings – from low-voltage electric grids with no transmission losses, superefficient motors and generators, ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Fleeting fluctuations in superconductivity disappear close to transition temperature

(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of an ongoing effort to uncover details of how high-temperature superconductors carry electrical current with no resistance, scientists at Johns Hopkins University and the U.S. Department ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Feb 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Sunlight spawns many binary and 'divorced' binary asteroids

(PhysOrg.com) -- The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is often depicted as a dull zone of dead rocks with an occasional wayward speedster smashing through on its way toward the sun.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

MS study suggests key role of environmental factor in the disease

Scientists are reporting what they say is compelling evidence that some powerful non-heritable, environmental factor likely plays a key role in the development of multiple sclerosis.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists Detect 'Fingerprint' of High-Temp Superconductivity Above Transition Temperature

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of U.S. and Japanese scientists has shown for the first time that the spectroscopic "fingerprint" of high-temperature superconductivity remains intact well above the super chilly temperatures ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 8

New insights, and a new angle, on high-temperature superconductivity

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Princeton-led research team has revealed surprising information about how electron behavior influences the conduction of electricity in a class of high-temperature superconductors. An increased ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 6

Research links evolution of fins and limbs with that of gills

The genetic toolkit that animals use to build fins and limbs is the same genetic toolkit that controls the development of part of the gill skeleton in sharks, according to research to be published in Proceedings of ...

Biology / Evolution

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Covering the bases: Quantum effect may hold promise for low-cost DNA sequencing, sensor applications

A ghostly property of matter, called quantum tunneling, may aid the quest for accurate, low-cost genomic sequencing, according to a new paper in Nature Nanotechnology Letters by Stuart Lindsay and his collab ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Iron-based superconductors exhibit s-wave symmetry

(Phys.org) -- Condensed-matter physicists the world over are in hot pursuit of a comprehensive understanding of high-temperature superconductivity, not just for its technological benefits but for the clues ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Atomic-scale visualization of electron pairing in iron superconductors

(Phys.org) -- By measuring how strongly electrons are bound together to form Cooper pairs in an iron-based superconductor, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study uncovers how DNA unfolds for transcription

(PhysOrg.com) -- The human genome contains some 3 billion base pairs that are tightly compacted into the nucleus of each cell. If a DNA strand were the thickness of a human hair, the entire human genome would ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Shared flavor compounds show up on US menus, rare in Asian cuisines

North Americans and Western Europeans love a good mix of alpha-terpineol, 4-methylpentanoic acid and ethyl propionate for dinner, flavor compounds shared in popular ingredients like tomatoes, parmesan cheese ...

Chemistry / Other

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

How the Milky Way killed off its satellites

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two researchers from Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg have revealed for the first time the existence of a new signature of the birth of the first stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast