(Phys.org)—A new DNA sequencing technique has enabled researchers to map for the first time the influential chemical modifications known as methylation marks throughout the genome of a pathogenic bacterium. By comparing ...
Nov 19, 2012
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Two years ago, a 71-year-old Indiana man impaled his hand on a branch after cutting down a dead crab apple tree, causing an infection that led University of Utah scientists to discover a new bacterium and ...
Nov 15, 2012
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A research team from Japan has discovered an anomalous softening effect in metallic glass, in which the hardness and elastic modulus of the material are reduced remarkably by applying giant shear strain to metallic glass ...
Nov 15, 2012
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have reported progress in fabricating advanced materials at the nanoscale. The spontaneous self-assembly of nanostructures composed of multiple elements ...
Nov 12, 2012
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National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) researchers have developed a three-dimensional stress analysis simulator for ultra-small silicon (Si) devices. The developed simulation ...
Nov 12, 2012
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have increased the potency of a compound that reactivates antibiotics against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), an antibiotic-resistant form of Staphylococcus that is notor ...
Oct 22, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Smart viruses find ways around host defenses. In the case of the influenza viruses A and B, rapid genetic changes and resistance to available therapies make it hard to combat flu epidemics in ...
Oct 11, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Researchers at the University of Texas have found that a certain type of bacteria that lives in the mammalian gut creates a virus to kill off competitors. In their paper published in the Proceedings of ...
Oct 09, 2012
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(Phys.org)—The theoretical and experimental framework of a new coherent diffraction strain imaging approach was developed in the Center for Nanoscale Materials' X-Ray Microscopy Group in collaboration with ...
Oct 09, 2012
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Stretching a layer of silicon can build up internal mechanical strain which can considerably improve its electronic properties. With strained silicon, one can, for example, build faster and less power-consuming ...
Oct 08, 2012
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A University of Colorado Boulder space center is providing hardware and technical support for scientific experiments aboard the first-ever NASA-contracted resupply flight to the International Space Station, ...
Oct 06, 2012
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The mother of all cultivated rice was grown on China's Pearl River, according to a DNA "map" published on Wednesday
Oct 03, 2012
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Watch out, acne. Doctors soon may have a new weapon against zits: a harmless virus living on our skin that naturally seeks out and kills the bacteria that cause pimples.
Sep 25, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Researchers Patricia A. Champion and Matthew Champion from the University of Notre Dame's Eck Institute for Global Health have developed a method to directly detect bacterial protein secretion, ...
Sep 18, 2012
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