Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have devised a new technique to isolate aggressive cells thought to form the root of many hard-to-treat metastasized cancers—a significant step toward developing new drugs ...
Biochemistry
Feb 22, 2018
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Some molecular biologists who study the proteins that regulate cell operations, including Elizabeth Vierling at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, do not confine their research to understanding the molecules' current ...
Biotechnology
Feb 22, 2018
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There are no such things as "wild" horses anymore.
Plants & Animals
Feb 22, 2018
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Scientists have found the first major evidence that Neanderthals, rather than modern humans, created the world's oldest known cave paintings - suggesting they may have had an artistic sense similar to our own.
Archaeology
Feb 22, 2018
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Remarkably, living cells are able to package a jumble of DNA over two meters in length into tidy, tiny chromosomes while preparing for cell division. However, scientists have been puzzled for decades about how the process ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 22, 2018
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Glowing creatures like fireflies and jellyfish are interesting to researchers, as their bioluminescent molecules contribute to visualizing a host of biological processes. Now, scientists in Japan have supercharged these molecules, ...
Biochemistry
Feb 22, 2018
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Wheat, millet and maize all need nitrogen to grow. Fertilisers therefore contain large amounts of nitrogenous compounds, which are usually synthesised by converting nitrogen to ammonia in the industrial Haber-Bosch process, ...
Materials Science
Feb 22, 2018
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A team led by geochemist Dr. Katharina Pahnke from Oldenburg has discovered important evidence that the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at the end of the last ice age was triggered by changes in the Antarctic Ocean. ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2018
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A group of researchers led by Andrea Cavalleri at the Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg has demonstrated a new method enabling precise measurements of the interatomic forces that ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 22, 2018
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Toyota has four of the 10 vehicles on Consumer Reports' annual top picks, the most of any brand.
Business
Feb 22, 2018
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