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Graphene bolsters battery work, biosensors

A flash of light turns graphene into a biosensor

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical researchers suspect graphene, a novel nanomaterial made of sheets of single carbon atoms, would be useful in a variety of applications. But no one had studied the interaction between ...


Single-stranded DNA-binding protein is dynamic, critical to DNA repair

Single-stranded DNA-binding protein is dynamic, critical to DNA repair

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers report that a single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB), once thought to be a static player among the many molecules that interact with DNA, actually moves back and forth along single-stranded ...


DNA detector

Rapid DNA Detection Quickly Diagnoses Infections

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new portable device can detect bacteria and help prevent the spread of infectious diseases. This new tool takes from 15 minutes to 2 hours to diagnose a patient for infectious diseases and ...


Taking aim at mysterious DNA structures in the battle against cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Designers of anti-cancer drugs are aiming their arrows at mysterious chunks of the genetic material DNA that may play a key role in preventing the growth and spread of cancer cells, according to an article in the current ...


Protein helps cells duplicate correctly, avoid becoming cancer

Protein helps cells duplicate correctly, avoid becoming cancer

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Purdue University researcher has discovered that the absence of certain proteins needed for proper cell duplication can lead to cancer.


Scientists show how hematopoietic stem cell development is regulated

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

During cell division, whether hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) will develop into new stem cells (self-renewal) or differentiate into other blood cells depends on a chemical process called DNA methylation. These were the findings ...


Models begin to unravel how single DNA strands combine

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using computer simulations, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has identified some of the pathways through which single complementary strands of DNA interact and combine to form the double ...


'On the origin of nematodes' -- A phylogenetic tree of the world’s most numerous group of animals

'On the origin of nematodes' -- A phylogenetic tree of the world’s most numerous group of animals

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists from Wageningen University and Research Centre have published the largest nematode Phylogenetic Tree to date in cooperation with the Dutch Plant Protection Service (PD) and the University of California ...


DNA 'barcode' for tropical trees

DNA 'barcode' for tropical trees

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In foods, soil samples or customs checks, plant fragments sometimes need to be quickly identified. The use of DNA “barcodes” to itemize plant biodiversity was proposed during the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Summit. ...


The x-ray machine has revolutionised how doctors detect disease and injury

X-ray named top achievement by British museum

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The X-ray was named the most important modern scientific achievement Wednesday in a poll conducted for Britain's Science Museum, beating Apollo spacecraft and DNA.


'Moonlighting' molecules discovered

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Since the completion of the human genome sequence, a question has baffled researchers studying gene control: How is it that humans, being far more complex than the lowly yeast, do not proportionally contain in our genome ...


New Test Results Deepen Mystery Surrounding Explorer Everett Ruess

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder analysis of a skeleton found in Utah that initially indicated the remains were likely that of Southwest artist and poet Everett Ruess, who mysteriously disappeared in the ...


Nanotech researchers develop artificial pore

Nanotech researchers develop artificial pore

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using an RNA-powered nanomotor, University of Cincinnati (UC) biomedical engineering researchers have successfully developed an artificial pore able to transmit nanoscale material through ...


Complete Genomics publishes in Science on low-cost sequencing of 3 human genomes

Complete Genomics reports low-cost sequencing of 3 human genomes

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Complete Genomics, a third-generation human genome sequencing company, today announced publication of a report in the journal Science describing its proprietary DNA sequencing platform, including analysis of seq ...


mummy

Mummy's tooth yields DNA

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A four thousand year old Egyptian mummy's tooth has yielded its DNA to probing scientists.