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Cell & Microbiology Oct 30, 2017

Nanoscale platform aims to control protein levels

A nanoscale antibody first found in camels combined with a protein-degrading molecule is an effective new platform to control protein levels in cells, according to Rice University scientists. The technique could aid fundamental ...

General Physics Oct 23, 2017

A new effect in electromagnetism discovered – 150 years later

Electromagnetism is a branch of physics that deals with all phenomena of electricity and magnetism. This field is the key foundation of our modern age of electricity and information technology. It is governed by a set of ...

Space Exploration Oct 19, 2017

Samples brought back from asteroid reveal 'rubble pile' had a violent past

Curtin University planetary scientists have shed some light on the evolution of asteroids, which may help prevent future collisions of an incoming 'rubble pile' asteroid with Earth.

Ecology Oct 2, 2017

From feral camels to 'cocaine hippos', large animals are rewilding the world

Throughout history, humans have taken plants and animals with them as they travelled the world. Those that survived the journey to establish populations in the diaspora have found new opportunities as they integrate into ...

Biochemistry Sep 28, 2017

Principles for computational design of binding antibodies

The idea of proteins that can be designed on computers for specific functions has been a cutting-edge concept that has stubbornly remained "in the future." New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science may bring that ...

Space Exploration Aug 23, 2017

Image: Return of the sun at Antarctica's Concordia research station

For some, the sun disappeared behind the moon in yesterday's eclipse for a few minutes, but the 13 people living in Antarctica's Concordia research station had to cope without sunlight for much longer. This sunset picture ...

Ecology Aug 15, 2017

Global megafauna study calls for conservation rethink

It's hard to imagine an Australia ruled by hippopotamus-sized wombats (Diprotodon) and three-metre-tall kangaroos (Procoptodon golian). The continent lost all native megafauna to the Pleistocene extinctions, tens of thousands ...

Ecology Aug 2, 2017

Vet med experts help solve a grizzly dental problem

Knute, a grizzly bear at the B.C. Wildlife Park in Kamloops, was not a happy bear. Pain from a damaged and infected canine tooth was keeping him up at night.

Biochemistry Jul 19, 2017

Researchers report on cell-permeable nanobodies

Scientists at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) Munich and the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) have managed to introduce tiny antibodies into living cells. The researchers ...

Archaeology Jun 29, 2017

Darwin's 'strangest animal ever' finds a family

Charles Darwin, Mr. Evolution himself, didn't know what to make of the fossils he saw in Patagonia so he sent them to his friend, the renowned paleontologist Richard Owen.

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