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
Not far beneath the ocean's surface, tiny phytoplankton swimming upward in a
daily commute toward morning light sometimes encounter the watery equivalent of
Rod Serling's Twilight Zone: a sharp variation in marine currents that traps...
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Location: Chalmer, Sweden
Abstract :
In case of a canister failure in a deep bedrock repository for nuclear fuel,
the release of radiotoxic nuclides to the groundwater will depend on the
chemical environment near the fuel surface. Due to the presence of large...
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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: 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: CNRS, France
Researchers at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research, better
known by its initials, CNRS, is the largest body of ...) offer a surprising
idea: sexuality would have found its origin in a strategy (The strategy - from
the Greek...
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Location: 3 rue Michel-Ange - F-75794 Paris cedex 16, France
An original defense strategy of unicellular organisms among the most abundant
of the ocean facing the marine virus has been underscored by researchers at
the laboratory Adaptation and diversity in the marine environment (CNRS, UPMC)...
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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: Stanford University, United States
Collisions have consequences. Everyone knows that. Whether it's between trains,
planes, automobiles or atoms, there are always repercussions. But while
macroscale collisions may have the most obvious effects—mangled steel, bruised...
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Location: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Panama
As was done in several tropical regions, a team will use an airborne equipment to study the canopy of the forest of the Shire, in the Puy-de-Dome. Together with other studies, conducted from the ground, this exploration will comprehensively...
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Location: Nist-301) 975-NIST (6478), TTY (301) 975-8295, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 1070, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1070, United States
The NIST team investigated the dietary accumulation, elimination and
toxicity of two types of fluorescent quantum dots using a simple,
laboratory-based food chain with two microscopic aquatic organisms—Tetrahymena
pyriformis, a...
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Location: University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), United States
Scientists have developed a new way of determining the size
and frequency of meteorites that have collided with Earth.
Their work shows that the size of the meteorite that likely plummeted to Earth
at the time of...
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Location: American Chemical Society (ACS), United States
Nanotechnology is now available in a store near you. Valued
for it’s antibacterial and odor-fighting properties, nanoparticle silver is
becoming the star attraction in a range of products from socks to bandages to
washing...
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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: University of Minnesota, United States
Researchers at the
University of
Minnesota studying bacteria capable of generating electricity have
discovered that riboflavin (commonly known as...
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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 California, Riverside, United States
A
University of California - Riverside -led study in the Mojave Desert,
Calif., has found that soils under “desert pavement” have an unusually high...
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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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