(PhysOrg.com) -- The molecular machinery bacteria use to rid themselves of toxic substances including antimicrobial drugs has been studied in detail by a UA-led team of researchers. A better understanding of these mechanisms ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 10, 2011
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The structures of many protein molecules remain unsolved even after experts apply an extensive array of approaches. An international collaboration has led to a new, high-performance method that rapidly determined the structure ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 1, 2011
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A Purdue University scientist's nanopolymer would make it easier and cheaper for drug developers to test the effectiveness of a widely used class of cancer inhibitors.
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 16, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Good chemists are passive-aggressive -- they manipulate molecules without actually touching them.
Materials Science
Mar 10, 2011
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Rice University scientists and their colleagues have found that when growing corn crops for ethanol, more means less.
Environment
Feb 25, 2011
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Bioethanol from new lines of native perennial prairie grass could become less costly because of plant engineering by The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation and fermentation research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Biotechnology
Feb 14, 2011
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UCSF researchers have developed a new approach to decoding the vast information embedded in an organism's genome, while shedding light on exactly how cells interpret their genetic material to create RNA messages and launch ...
Biotechnology
Jan 19, 2011
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Last week's AWAT Why Water? took the approach of acknowledging that while numerous solvents are available to support alien biochemistries, water is very likely to be the most common biological solvent out there – just ...
Space Exploration
Jan 18, 2011
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Tomato plants use similar biochemical mechanisms to reject pollen from their own flowers as well as pollen from foreign but related plant species, thus guarding against both inbreeding and cross-species hybridization, report ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 23, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence that the toxic element arsenic can replace the essential nutrient phosphorus in biomolecules of a naturally occurring bacterium expands the scope of the search for life beyond Earth, according to ...
Space Exploration
Dec 2, 2010
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