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Protein is key to embryonic stem cell differentiation

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have learned that a protein called Shp2 plays a critical role in the pathways that control decisions for differentiation or self-renewal in both human embryonic ...





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Technology monitors myriad molecules

Chemistry /

created May 07, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A U.S. scientist has created a computer chip consisting of thousands of electrodes yielding molecules that bind to receptor sites.


New 3-D Test Method for Biomaterials 'Flat Out' Faster

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 29, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A novel, three-dimensional (3-D) screening method for analyzing interactions between cells and new biomaterials could cut initial search times by more than half, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...


Cornell researcher seeks clues to how tuberculosis infects cells

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 21, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cornell researchers are using advanced genetic techniques to better understand the relationship between the bacteria that cause tuberculosis and the human immune system defense cells that engulf them.


Engineers build first-ever multi-input 'plug-and-play' synthetic RNA device

Chemistry /

created Oct 17, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Engineers from the California Institute of Technology have created a "plug-and-play" synthetic RNA device--a sort of eminently customizable biological computer--that is capable of taking in and responding to more than one ...


Chemists perfect fast way to synthesize libraries of gold nanoparticles

Nanotechnology /

created Sep 05, 2005 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Not all libraries contain books. In chemistry, the word library is used to refer to a collection of molecules. University of Oregon chemist Jim Hutchison's new way of rapidly generating libraries of tiny particles with great ...


Scientists can now differentiate between healthy cells and cancer cells

Biology /

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 3

One of the current handicaps of cancer treatments is the difficulty of aiming these treatments at destroying malignant cells without killing healthy cells in the process. But a new study by McMaster University researchers ...


Novel natural product from environmental DNA: Erdacin is a powerful antioxidant

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have not yet found a way to turn dirt into gold, but they are trying to find something valuable in it nonetheless: starting materials for novel pharmaceuticals.


'Smell of old books' offers clues to help preserve them

'Smell of old books' offers clues to help preserve them

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created 17 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists may not be able to tell a good book by its cover, but they now can tell the condition of an old book by its smell. In a report in ACS' Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal, they describe develo ...


Telling an old book by its smell: Aroma hints at ways of preserving treasured documents

Telling an old book by its smell: Aroma hints at ways of preserving treasured documents

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists may not be able to tell a good book by its cover, but they now can tell the condition of an old book by its odor. In a report published in the American Chemical Society's Analytical Chemistry they d ...


New chemical reaction offers opportunities for drug development

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Researchers led by Conway Fellow, Professor Pat Guiry have solved a chemistry problem that has stumped researchers worldwide for more than a decade. The results have earned the group the cover story of the leading scientific ...



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