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Arabidopsis Cells

Scientists Identify Stem-Cell Genes That Help Form Plant Organs

Biology /

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant stem-cells are master cells located at the tip of the stem and are part of a structure called the shoot apical meristem (SAM). Here, the stem cells—all clumped together—divide throughout ...





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Global warming is changing organic matter in soil

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (33) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research shows that we should be looking to the ground, not the sky, to see where climate change could have its most perilous impact on life on Earth.


Food security: It starts with seed

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

With each passing year, the human population of our planet continues to expand. This growth has created a wide ranging strain on our water and soil resources, as well as our environment, creating an unprecedented urgency ...


Structure of hepatitis B virus mapped

Chemistry /

created Jul 28, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Using a newly developed method, Utrecht University researchers have mapped the structure and composition of the hepatitis B virus. The researchers were able to map the structure by spraying the virus.


Toshiba develops molecular photoresist technology for EUV lithography

Toshiba develops molecular photoresist technology for EUV lithography

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 1.9 / 5 (17) | comments 1

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a high resolution photoresist (photo-sensitive film) essential for future application of EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography in semiconductor fabrication, ...


Jupiter-like planets could form around twin suns

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Life on a planet ruled by two suns might be a little complicated. Two sunrises, two sunsets. Twice the radiation field.


Flies, too, feel the influence of their peers, studies find

Biology /

created Sep 11, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

We all know that people can be influenced in complex ways by their peers. But two new studies in the September 11th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, reveal that the same can also be said of fruit flies. ...


Molecular Building Blocks

Do 68 molecules hold the key to understanding disease?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (58) | comments 2

Why is it that the origins of many serious diseases remain a mystery? In considering that question, a scientist at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has come up with a unified molecular ...


Melting ice under pressure

Melting ice under pressure

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 23, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The deep interior of Neptune, Uranus and Earth may contain some solid ice.


Capturing cell 'fingerprints' to advance cancer screening

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Northeastern University have developed an early-stage, highly accurate cancer screening technology that determines -- in seconds -- whether a cell is cancerous, precancerous or normal.


Physicists find way to explore microscopic systems through holographic video

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Physicists at New York University have developed a technique to record three-dimensional movies of microscopic systems, such as biological molecules, through holographic video. The work, which is reported in Optics Express, has po ...



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