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Native-like spider silk produced in metabolically engineered bacterium

Researchers have long envied spiders' ability to manufacture silk that is light-weighted while as strong and tough as steel or Kevlar. Indeed, finer than human hair, five times stronger by weight than steel, and three times ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Against expectations, genetic variation does not alter asthma treatment response

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies have suggested that asthma patients with a specific genetic variation might not respond as well to certain treatments as those with a different variation. But a new study in this week's edition of ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First discovery of life's building block in comet made

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 13

An Animal Model for Schizophrenia Identifies a Novel Approach for Treating Cognitive Impairments

Researchers have been seeking a safe and effective way to treat cognitive impairments associated with schizophrenia by enhancing N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptors. Functional deficits in NMDA receptors may ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Attack or retreat? Circuit links hunger and pursuit in sea slug brain

If you were a blind, cannibalistic sea slug, living among others just like you, nearly every encounter with another creature would require a simple cost/benefit calculation: Should I eat that, do nothing or ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Biocompatible quantum dot images tumors in live animals

Quantum dots, small semiconductor nanoparticles that fluoresce brightly with sharply defined colors, have tremendous promise as biomedical imaging agents except for one problem—most are made from potentially hazardous ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Avalanche of reactions at the origin of life

The origin of life is seen as the formation of the first biomolecules which may be subject to multiplication and further development. Hitherto it was unclear, which reactions could have triggered the evolution of this ur-metabolism. ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Scientists identify lung cancer stem cells and new drug targets

Singapore scientists, headed by Dr. Bing Lim, Associate Director of Cancer Stem Cell Biology at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), a research institute under the umbrella of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shrimp-like crustacean found to make gooey underwater silk

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fritz Vollrath and colleagues from Oxford University have been analyzing the gooey material produced by tiny amphipods known as Crassicorophium bonellii, a small shrimp-like creature that p ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Soybean adoption came early by many cultures, archaeologists say

Human domestication of soybeans is thought to have first occurred in central China some 3,000 years ago, but archaeologists now suggest that cultures in even earlier times and in other locations adopted the ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop drug-like molecules to improve schizophrenia treatment

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have identified chemical compounds that could lead to a major advance in the treatment of schizophrenia.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Making stem-cell band-aids for the retina

At the beginning of July, Caltech senior Wilson Ho found himself hiking, stargazing, and camping in Yosemite National Park with a Nobel laureate. He even joined a group of scientists for a spontaneous jump ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Timothy syndrome mutations provide new insights into the structure of L-calcium channel

The human genome encodes 243 voltage-gated ion channels. Mutations in calcium channels can cause severe inherited diseases such as migraine, night blindness, autism spectrum disorders and Timothy syndrome, ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists learn how horseweed shrugs off herbicide

As everyone knows, the pharmaceutical industry is struggling to deal with bacteria that have become resistant to common antibiotics. Less well known is the similar struggle in agribusiness to deal with weeds ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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