It took two postdoctoral researchers, a lab technician, four undergraduates and their faculty advisors only four years - a blink of an eye in pharmaceutical terms - to scour a collection of 10,000 bacterial strains and isolate ...
Biochemistry
Sep 8, 2015
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New research shows that high levels of ozone, which are predicted to increase in the atmosphere in the future, can dampen the scents of flowers that attract bees and other pollinators.
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2015
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Drugs important in the battle against cancer responded the way they do in real life and behaved according to predictions when tested in a computer-generated model of one of the cell's key molecular pumps—the protein P-glycoprotein, ...
Biochemistry
Sep 8, 2015
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Inside the trillions of cells that make up the human body, things are rarely silent. Molecules are constantly being made, moved, and modified—and during these processes, mistakes are sometimes made. Strands of DNA, for ...
Biochemistry
Sep 8, 2015
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All countries have contributed to recent climate change, but some much more so than others. Those that have contributed more than their fair share have accumulated a climate debt, owed to countries that have contributed less ...
Environment
Sep 8, 2015
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The modern-day complaints department tends to be a direct mention on Twitter to the company that has wronged you. It's easier than ever to have a direct line to a company, but what does a corporation get out of this interaction? ...
Economics & Business
Sep 8, 2015
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Researchers at the University of Helsinki, Finland, have developed a new method which enables the activation of genes in a cell without changing the genome. Applications of the method include directing the differentiation ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 8, 2015
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There are plenty of ways in the lab to determine which bug is bugging you when you're sick. The University of Pittsburgh's Xinyu Liu, Sanford Asher, and colleagues may have found a faster method.
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 8, 2015
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NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean early on September 8 and captured an image of newborn Tropical Storm Etau approaching Japan.
Earth Sciences
Sep 8, 2015
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Typhoon Kilo continues to thrive in the Northwestern Pacific and imagery from NASA's Terra satellite late on September 7 showed that the storm still maintained a clear eye.
Earth Sciences
Sep 8, 2015
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