Location: Cambridge, United States
In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally
occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other
large edifices, researchers have analyzed the molecular structure of natural
materials and...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
In the search for answers to the planet's biggest challenges, some MIT
researchers are turning to its tiniest organisms: bacteria.
The idea of exploiting microbial products is not new: Humans have long
enlisted bacteria and yeast to...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Living cells are bombarded with messages from the outside world -- hormones
and other chemicals tell them to grow, migrate, die or do nothing. Inside the
cell, complex signaling networks interpret these cues and make life-and-death...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals.
Rahul Sarpeshkar, associate...
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Location: Marseilles, United States
The life of a cell is not governed only by the biochemistry and genetics. The mechanics also say. A team of physicists from the Institute Fresnel1 in Marseilles, and biologists from the Institute of Developmental Biology of
Marseille-Luminy...
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Location: Oak Ridge, United States
The answer to the looming fuel crisis in the 21st century may be found by
thinking small, microscopic in fact. Microscopic organisms from bacteria and
cyanobacteria, to fungi and microalgae, are biological factories that are
proving to be...
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Location: Minnesota, United States
Genetically engineering plants is a time-intensive process. Methods currently
used to deliver genetic changes are imprecise, so it's often necessary to
generate thousands of plants to find one that happens to have the desired
alteration....
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Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Researchers in Heidelberg discover new protein that is suppressed in
particularly aggressive cancer cell.
If cancer cells lack a certain protein, it could be much easier for them to
penetrate healthy body tissue, the first step...
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
The human heart has a notorious reputation for being unable to heal itself,
but new research suggests it is capable of at least some self-repair. Using
carbon dating to gauge the age of heart cells, scientists have found that low
numbers...
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Location: Carnegie, United States
The single-celled green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii generates hydrogen by
fermentation under low oxygen conditions. Cells in photo are stained with
fluorescent dyes. Purple indicates DNA, green indicates flagella.
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Location: Princeton, United States
Researchers may be able to "freeze" water into a solid, not by cooling but by confining it to narrow spaces less than one-millionth of a millimeter wide, according to new results from an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers.
It's...
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer - a remarkably high
number. But what about the flipside of those statistics? That is, two out of
three people never get cancer, and more than half of heavy smokers don’t get...
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Location: McGill University, Canada
McGill researchers discover a mutation that promotes the metabolism of fat instead of storing
According to researchers at McGill University, the recent discovery of a
previously unknown mutation in a common nematode, or round...
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Location: Florida, United States
Algae is a livid green giveaway of nutrient pollution in a lake. Scientists would love to reproduce that action in tiny particles that would turn different colors if exposed to biological weapons, food spoilage or signs of poor health in the...
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Location: California, United States
Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma—the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans—that closely resembles the development and progression of human brain...
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Location: Jerusalem, Israel
By injecting stem cells directly into the brain, scientists have successfully reversed neural birth defects in mice whose mothers were given heroin during pregnancy. Even though most of the transplanted cells did not survive, they induced the...
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Location: CNRS, France
One of the main topics of developmental biology is to understand how gene regulatory networks are linked to the form of multicellular beings. While the genes indirectly control the geometry of the tissue by affecting chemical and mechanical...
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Location: Lund, Sweden
Mould toxins in buildings damaged by moisture are considerably more prevalent than was previously thought, according to new international research. Erica Bloom from the Division of Medical Microbiology at Lund University in Sweden has contributed...
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Location: Havard, United States
This is not a direct way to test string theory just proposed Andrew Strominger and his colleagues, but it could become ... Using tools from this theory, they managed to deduct the entropy of black holes Kerr rotation extreme, such as GRS 1915 +10,...
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