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Stopping germs from ganging up on humans

Biology /

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Keeping germs from cooperating can delay the evolution of drug resistance more effectively than killing germs one by one with traditional drugs such as antibiotics, according to new research from The University of Arizona ...





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Scientists improve chip memory by stacking cells

Technology / Semiconductors

created 6 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Arizona State University have developed an elegant method for significantly improving the memory capacity of electronic chips.


Nanoparticles go platinum: NCEM instruments provide key images

Nanoparticles go platinum: NCEM instruments provide key images

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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At Berkeley Lab's National Center for Electron Microscopy it was revealed that single-stranded DNA can disperse bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes into individual tubes and serve as guideposts for synthesizing ...


Switchable Nanostructures Made with DNA

Switchable Nanostructures Made with DNA

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have found a new way to use a synthetic form of DNA to control the assembly of nanoparticles — this time resulting ...


Mutation leads to new and severe form of bacterial disease

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Everybody gets sick, but how sick you get is in your genes. New research now reveals a mutation on a gene that makes children susceptible to a severe form of mycobacterial disease. The work not only supports ...


Researchers discover new ways to treat chronic infections

Researchers discover new ways to treat chronic infections

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York, have identified three key regulators required for the formation and development of biofilms. The discovery could lead to new ways of treating ...


How to Find Signs of Life on Mars

How to Find Signs of Life on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

By studying the signatures of fossil life on Earth, geobiologists can get a clue of what to look for when hunting for extraterrestrial life on Mars.


Research project yields better understanding of the defective protein that causes cystic fibrosis

Research project yields better understanding of the defective protein that causes cystic fibrosis

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of researchers studying the protein that, when defective or absent, causes cystic fibrosis (CF) has made an important discovery about how that protein is normally controlled and under what circumstances ...


Large-scale sequencing: The future of genomic sciences?

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists can gain insights into new ways to use microorganisms in medicine and manufacturing through a coordinated large-scale effort to sequence the genomes of not just individual microorganisms but entire ecosystems, ...


Researchers revise long-held theory of fruit-fly development

Researchers revise long-held theory of fruit-fly development

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For decades, science texts have told a simple and straightforward story about a particular protein—a transcription factor—that helps the embryo of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, pattern tissues in a m ...


Researchers find human protein that prevents H1N1 influenza infection

Medicine & Health / Research

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

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have identified a naturally occurring human protein that helps prevent infection by H1N1 influenza and other viruses, including West Nile and dengue virus.



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