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Diabetic kidney failure follows a 'ROCK'y road

A protein kinase known as ROCK1 can exacerbate an important process called fission in the mitochondria, the power plants of cells, leading to diabetic kidney disease, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a ...

Medicine & Health / Research

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Could natural nuclear reactors have boosted life on this and other planets?

While modern-day humans use the most advanced engineering to build nuclear reactors, Nature sometimes makes them by accident.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Livermore and Russian scientists propose new names for elements 114 and 116

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today recommended new proposed names for elements 114 and 116, the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

New database for vital model organism launched

A new database promises to be an invaluable resource to scientists who use a unique single-celled fungus to study human diseases.

Biology / Biotechnology

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Study identifies a key molecular switch for telomere extension by telomerase

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine describe for the first time a key target of DNA damage checkpoint enzymes that must be chemically modified to enable stable maintenance of chromosome ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers solve a protein complex's molecular structure to explain its role in gene silencing

A cell's genome maintains its integrity by organizing some of its regions into a super-compressed form of DNA called heterochromatin. In the comparatively simple organism fission yeast, a cellular phenomenon known as RNA ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Japan opens Fukushima reactors to outside eyes

Japan took a group of journalists inside its crippled nuclear plant for the first time on Saturday, stepping up efforts to prove to the world it is on top of the disaster.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 13, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

No uncontrolled reaction at Fukushima: operator

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima atomic plant Thursday played down fears of an uncontrolled chain reaction at the site, despite the discovery of evidence of recent nuclear fission.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New genetic switch allows cells to thrive in low oxygen

(PhysOrg.com) -- Johns Hopkins scientists have revealed a new way that cells respond to the challenge of low oxygen. A report on the discovery about how the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe regulates ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Combating fungal diseases

(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have discovered a potential new approach for inhibiting the growth of pathogenic fungi. Their findings on the mechanism ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The first nuclear power plant for settlements on Moon, Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first nuclear power plant being considered for production of electricity for manned or unmanned bases on the Moon, Mars and other planets may really look like it came from outer space, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (26) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

New tasks attributed to Aurora proteins in cell division

(PhysOrg.com) -- When a cell divides, the genetic information in the chromosomes must be passed on error-free to the daughter cells. Researchers at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory in Tübingen are studying ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Modeling the bizarre: Quantum superfluids

(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 100 years since superconductivity was discovered, a comprehensive description for the behavior of a broad class of fundamental physical systems that exhibit the bizarre properties ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Solving the mysteries of astrophysics: Ultracold neutrons

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU, Germany) have built what is currently the strongest source of ultracold neutrons. Ultracold neutrons (UCNs) were first generated here five years ago. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

The curious case of germanium-72: An unusual isotope changes phases as temperature rises

(PhysOrg.com) -- There's a lot we don't know about the atomic nucleus, even though it was discovered a century ago this year.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Fission

Fission is a splitting of something into two parts.

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