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: California, United States
Abstract:
The ability to pattern nanostructures has important
applications in medical diagnosis,(1,
2) sensing,
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of
swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real
thing, if not quite as fast.
Mechanical engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Pablo...
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Location: Maryland, United States
By analyzing the genetic differences between more than 3 000 people across
Africa and from other parts of the world, researchers have shown how the current
African populations had evolved from 14 aboriginal groups. The result of their...
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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: New York, United States
Chemists at New York University and Harvard University have created a
bipedal, autonomous DNA "walker" that can mimic a cell's transportation system.
The device, which marks a step toward more complex synthetic molecular motor
systems, is...
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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: Los Angeles, United States
New research suggests that the layer of insulation coating neural wiring in
the brain plays a critical role in determining intelligence. In addition, the
quality of this insulation appears to be largely genetically determined,
providing...
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Location: Ohio, United States
Researchers have developed a new way to perform chemical reactions involving only about 1,000 molecules. The method could prove useful in the rapid screening of chemical reactions when searching for new drugs and industrial materials.
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Location: washington, United States
DNA evidence is in, newly discovered species of fish dubbed H.
psychedelica-A juvenile H. psychedelica hops along a coral
reef, its course even more precarious as it is buffeted by currents. Notice
how it curves its tail around to...
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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: Harvard, United States
From the structure of DNA to nautical rope to distant spiral galaxies, helical forms are as abundant as they are useful in nature and manufacturing alike. Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered...
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Location: Paris, France
One of the first steps of memory transmission from one cell to its descendants, or how a cell transmits its functions and characters when it divides, has been described by Dr. Christian Bronner, researcher in-Institut Gilbert Laustriat...
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Location: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, United States
Researchers at the
University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine discovered that the activity of a specific family of
nanometer-sized molecular motors called myosin-I...
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Location: UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States
Tiny strands of genetic material called RNA – a chemical cousin of DNA – are
emerging as major players in gene regulation, the process inside cells that
drives all biology and that scientists seek to control in order to fight
disease....
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Location: Center for Photonic Communication and Computing, United States
For now, full-fledged quantum computers are the stuff of
science fiction — in last summer's blockbuster movie Transformers, the bad guys
use quantum computing to break into the
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Location: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Looking for evidence of life on Mars or other planets?
Finding cellulose microfibers would be the next best thing to a close encounter,
according to new research from the ...
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Location: Arizona State University, United States
One day soon a biosensing nanodevice developed by
Arizona State
University researcher Wayne Frasch may eliminate long lines at airport
security checkpoints...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A team led by a
Purdue University
researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had
previously been achieved.
Wen...
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