Can genetic information be controlled by light? October 10, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Researchers at Kiel University have succeeded in showing that DNA strands differ in their light sensitivity depending on their base sequences. Their results are reported by Nina Schwalb and colleagues in the current issue ... | |
 Venus Express searching for life – on Earth October 10, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using ESA’s Venus Express are trying to observe whether Earth is habitable. Silly, you might think, when we know that Earth is richly stocked with life. In fact, far from being ... | |
 Landmark study unlocks stem cell, DNA secrets to speed therapies October 10, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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In a groundbreaking study led by an eminent molecular biologist at Florida State University, researchers have discovered that as embryonic stem cells turn into different cell types, there are dramatic corresponding ... | |
 High-temperature superconductor 'pseudogap' imaged September 22, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers and colleagues have produced the first atomic-scale description of what electrons are doing in the mysterious "pseudogap" in high-temperature superconductors. | |
 Benchmark cyanobacterium sequenced could be cheap renewable energy source September 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers headed by biologists at Washington University in St. Louis has sequenced the genome of a unique bacterium that manages two disparate operations — photosynthesis and nitrogen ... | |
Scientists turn human skin cells into insulin-producing cells September 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have transformed cells from human skin into cells that produce insulin, the hormone used to treat diabetes. | |
Using living cells as nanotechnology factories October 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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In the tiny realm of nanotechnology, scientists have used a wide variety of materials to build atomic scale structures. But just as in the construction business, nanotechnology researchers can often be limited by the amount ... | |
 Using novel tool, researchers dig through cell 'trash' and find treasure September 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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A person's trash can reveal valuable information, as detectives, historians and identity thieves well know. Likewise, a cell's "trash" may yield certain treasures, University of Delaware researchers have found. | |
 Biophysicists create new model for protein-cholesterol interactions in brain and muscle tissue September 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Biophysicists at the University of Pennsylvania have used 3,200 computer processors and long-established data on cholesterol's role in the function of proteins to clarify the mysterious interaction between ... | |
Muscle stem cell identity confirmed by Stanford researchers September 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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A single cell can repopulate damaged skeletal muscle in mice, say scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine, who devised a way to track the cell's fate in living animals. The research is the first to confirm ... | |
Researchers identify mechanism used by gene to promote metastasis in human cancer cells September 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Virginia Commonwealth University Institute of Molecular Medicine and VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers have discovered how a gene, melanoma differentiation associated gene-9/syntenin (mda-9/syntenin), interacts with an ... | |
 Study reveals an oily diet for subsurface life September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Thousands of feet below the bottom of the sea, off the shores of Santa Barbara, single-celled organisms are busy feasting on oil. | |
New study on properties of carbon nanotubes, water could have wide-ranging implications October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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A fresh discovery about the way water behaves inside carbon nanotubes could have implications in fields ranging from the function of ultra-tiny high-tech devices to scientists' understanding of biological processes, according ... | |
Researchers disclose key advance in treating spinal cord injuries September 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Researchers in Rochester, N.Y., and Colorado have shown that manipulating stem cells prior to transplantation may hold the key to overcoming a critical obstacle to using stem cell technology to repair spinal cord injuries. | |
 Cross kingdom conflicts on a beetle's back October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of Madison-Wisconsin have discovered how beetles and bacteria form a symbiotic and mutualistic relationship—one that ultimately results in the destruction ... | |
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