News tagged with polysaccharide chain

New tissue scaffold regrows cartilage and bone

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT engineers and colleagues have built a new tissue scaffold that can stimulate bone and cartilage growth when transplanted into the knees and other joints.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 2




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Researchers uncover how plant skin is assembled

(Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have identified how a plant's skin is assembled.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

DoD basic research discovers new spectroscopic signatures from the 'Stuff of Life'

There is hardly a greater discovery during the past century than DNA–deoxyribonucleic acid–the biomolecular material in every cell of the human body. DNA contains the genetic information necessary ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Bioluminescent technology for easy tracking of GMO

It is important to be able to monitor genetically modified (GM) crops, not only in the field but also during the food processing chain. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Biotechnology shows ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pass the lycopene: Scientist can protect supplements inside food

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Purdue University food scientist has developed a way to encase nutritional supplements in food-based products so that one day consumers might be able to sprinkle vitamins, antioxidants and ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japanese researchers turn a crab shell transparent

A group of researchers working out of Kyoto University in Japan have successfully transformed a normal crab into one that is transparent. As they describe in their paper published in the British Royal Society ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

A simple compound with surprising antifreeze properties

A chemical compound used to stabilize particles in suspension has proved capable of controlling the growth of ice crystals. This finding was made by CNRS/Saint-Gobain researchers in France. Surprisingly, the ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sugars can do it too: Protein-like oligomerization of carbohydrates

(PhysOrg.com) -- In order for enzymes and other proteins in our bodies to work correctly, it is often necessary for multiple protein units to gather together into a larger structure. Chains of sugar molecules ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanoscale whiskers from sea creatures could grow human muscle tissue

Nanoscale whiskers from sea creatures could grow human muscle tissue

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Invisibility cloak needed for cooperation? Unusual lipopolysaccharide enables symbiosis between bacterium, fungus

(PhysOrg.com) -- We and all other organisms must constantly grapple with bacteria. Whether for a necessary symbiosis or an infection, carbohydrate structures on cell surfaces play an important role in the ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New hydrolysis model promising tool in cellulosic biofuel studies

Scientists are working hard to develop the tools and find the organisms to break down the complex structure of plant cellulose into its component sugars - the key step toward fermentation of those sugars into usable biofuel. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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