Proteins normally recognize each other by their specific 3-D structure. If the key fits in the lock, a reaction can take place. However there are reactions at the onset of which the key does not really have a shape. German ...
Biochemistry
Feb 15, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is currently examining several key technologies that can advance space exploration. Dubbed Nautilus-X this tubular spacecraft can be used as a reusable vehicle for lunar and deep-space missions, holding ...
In a paper published today in PNAS, scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Hamburg, Germany, reveal new insights into the workings of enzymes from a group of bacteria including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 15, 2011
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Composed of diverse elements, mostly of plastic, with little metal used, improvised explosive devices are very difficult to detect. In cooperation with two Colombian universities, scientists at EPFL's Electromagnetic Compatibility ...
Engineering
Feb 15, 2011
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Just when everyone thought that almost every plant species on the Iberian Peninsula had been discovered, Spanish researchers have discovered Taraxacum decastroi and Taraxacum lacianense, two dandelions from the Pyrenees and ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 15, 2011
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A scientific review released Tuesday cast doubt on the US government's conclusion that scientist Bruce Ivins, who killed himself in 2008, was to blame in the 2001 case of deadly anthrax mailings.
Other
Feb 15, 2011
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Pavlos Vlachos, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, working with two engineers from Utah State University, has won the Lewis F. Moody Award for an outstanding original paper useful to the practice ...
Engineering
Feb 15, 2011
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Potholes in the road or a park bench in need of repair – we all come across these or similar problems every now and then. If only there were a simple way of reporting them to the right department of the public administration! ...
Software
Feb 15, 2011
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The genome of the Blackleg fungus, which causes the most damaging disease to canola crops worldwide, has been sequenced for the first time by a team of French and Australian scientists.
Biotechnology
Feb 15, 2011
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As climate change and disease threaten potato farming in the tuber's ancestral home in the Peruvian Andes, potato preservationists today launched a major effort to safeguard more than 1,500 varieties by sending them to the ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 15, 2011
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