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Research about plant viruses could lead to new ways to improve crop yields

Research about plant viruses could lead to new ways to improve crop yields

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created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An interdisciplinary group of scientists has obtained the first detailed information about the structure of the most destructive group of plant viruses known: flexible filamentous viruses. ...





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Xerox Develops Silver Ink for Cheap Printable Electronics

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Xerox has developed an ink which can be used to print circuits onto plastics, films, and textiles. Although circuits printed on flexible materials aren't new, Xerox's method may be cheap and ...


Super-thin flexible OLED from Sony

Super-thin flexible OLED from Sony

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony is showing off prototypes incorporating its super-thin, flexible OLED technology at the CREATEC JAPAN 2009 IT and electronics trade show in Makuhari Messe (Chiba) in Japan.


Structures of important plant viruses determined

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created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Flexible filamentous viruses make up a large fraction of known plant viruses and are responsible for more than half the viral damage to crop plants throughout the world. New details of their structures, which were poorly ...


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Stem cell nuclei are soft 'hard drives,' study finds

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created Oct 11, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Biophysicists at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that the nuclei of human stem cells are particularly soft and flexible, rather than hard, making it easier for stem cells to migrate through ...


Best energy harvesting sources for future AF UAVs

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are expected to power Air Force unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the future because they are an optimum energy harvesting source that may lead to longer flight times without refueling.


Biologists Unlock Secrets of Plants' Growing Tips

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologist Magdalena Bezanilla and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have used a technique they call multi-gene silencing to, for the first time, simultaneously silence nine genes in a ...


Pathogen protection and virulence: Dark side of fungal membrane protein revealed

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and Montana State University have discovered a fungal protein that plays a key role in causing disease in plants and animals and which also shields ...


Researchers reconstitute enzyme that synthesizes cholesterol drug lovastatin

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have for the first time successfully reconstituted in the laboratory the enzyme responsible for producing the blockbuster cholesterol-lowering ...


Hylas payload shipped to India

Hylas payload shipped to India

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hylas, a flexible, broadband Ka-band satellite, is steadily moving towards completion. The communications payload has been shipped from England to India for integration with the platform, ...


Opening the Door for CO2

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until recently, factory smokestacks that produced nothing but carbon dioxide and water vapor were considered exemplary. Now CO2 has become notorious as a greenhouse gas, and the danger of climate change has ...



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