News tagged with biological processes


Controlling the fate of cells

Controlling the fate of cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A protein found in cells has been shown to play a pivotal role in determining whether a cell lives or dies.


Nanoneedle is small in size, but huge in applications

Nanoneedle is small in size, but huge in applications

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a membrane-penetrating nanoneedle for the targeted delivery of one or more molecules into the cytoplasm or the nucleus of living cells. ...





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How can scientists measure evolutionary responses to climate change?

Biology / Evolution

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As global temperatures continue to rise scientists are presented with the complex challenge of understanding how species respond and adapt. In a paper published in Insect Conservation and Diversity, Dr Francisco Rodriguez-Trelles and Dr ...


Launch of the first standard graphical notation for biology

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and their colleagues in 30 labs worldwide have released a new set of standards for graphically representing biological ...


Report Says Musicians Hear Better Than Non-Musicians

Report Says Musicians Hear Better Than Non-Musicians

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Journal of Neuroscience reports this week that musicians are better than non-musicians at recognizing speech in noisy environments.  The finding from a study conducted by neurobiologists at Nor ...


Yeast unravels effects of chemotherapy drugs

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Until now, the mode of action of nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate (N-BP) cancer drugs, used to relieve bone pain and to prevent skeletal complications in bone metastasis, has been almost entirely unknown. Researchers writing ...


'Rock-breathing' bacteria could generate electricity and clean up oil spills

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

A discovery by scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) could contribute to the development of systems that use domestic or agricultural waste to generate clean electricity.


Marine microbes creating green waves in industry

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New technology designed to analyse large numbers of novel marine microbes could lead to more efficient and greener ways to manufacture new drugs for conditions such as epilepsy, diabetes, flu and other viruses, as well as ...


Novel Chemistry for Ethylene and Tin

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New work by chemists at UC Davis shows that ethylene, a gas that is important both as a hormone that controls fruit ripening and as a raw material in industrial chemistry, can bind reversibly to tin atoms. ...


Getting on 'the GABA receptor shuttle' to treat anxiety disorders

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

There are increasingly precise molecular insights into ways that stress exposure leads to fear and through which fear extinction resolves these fear states. Extinction is generally regarded as new inhibitory learning, but ...


Study shows nearly 1/3 of human genome is involved in gingivitis

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Gingivitis, which may affect more than one-half of the U.S. adult population, is a condition commonly attributed to lapses in simple oral hygiene habits. However, a new study shows that development and reversal of gingivitis ...


Harnessing nanopatterns

Harnessing nanopatterns: Tiny textures can produce big differences

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at MIT has uncovered new information about how nanoscale patterns on the surface of a material can produce significant changes in the way it interacts with liquids. The discovery ...



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