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: Pennsylvania, American Samoa
A simple, chemical materials model may lead to a better understanding of the structure and organization of the cell according to a Penn State researcher.
"Cells are interesting because they show organization even at the level of the cytoplasm,...
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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: Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, ,Kyoto UniversityJapan Tel: +81-75-753-7531, Japan
Many types of catechin in green tea called polyphenols that one group is
included. These types of catechin in green tea is very astringent component of
the antioxidant action of a lot of attention is being used in health foods.
Also,...
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
A team of Canadian researchers has just completed a major step forward in the field of virotherapy oncolytique, to transform certain viruses destructive weapons of tumor cells.
As explained by John Hiscott of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill...
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Location: Wisconsin, United States
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a simple, two-step chemical process to convert plant sugars into hydrocarbon fuels. The compounds created during the process could also be used to make other industrial chemicals...
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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: 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 newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the
scientific tools to design plants that will yield larger quantities of
alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to
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Location: Case Western Reserve University, United States
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the departments
of macromolecular science and engineering and biomedical engineering at the
Case School of...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
The structure and behavior of one of the most common proteins in our bodies
has been resolved at a level of detail never before seen, thanks to new research
performed at the
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Location: University of the Basque Country, Spain
An international team led by Physics and Chemistry teams from
the Faculty of Science and Technology at the
University of the...
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Location: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
Researchers from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified a key molecular mechanism
that may account for the development of cystic fibrosis, which about 1 in 3000...
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Location: Stanford University, United States
All the crucial proteins in our bodies must fold into complex shapes to do
their jobs. These snarled molecules grip other molecules to move them around, to
speed up important chemical reactions or to grab onto our genes, turning them
"on"...
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Location: Princeton University, United States
Beyond its role as the elixir of all life, water is a very unusual substance:
Scientists have long marveled over counter-intuitive properties that set water
apart from other solids and liquids commonly found in nature.
The simple fact...
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