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Diamond light, brighter than the sun

It’s the size of five football pitches and generates light 10 billion times brighter than the sun. As the Diamond Light Source celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, Penny Bailey visits one of the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

SUMO-snipping protein plays crucial role in T and B cell development

When SUMO grips STAT5, a protein that activates genes, it blocks the healthy embryonic development of immune B cells and T cells unless its nemesis breaks the hold, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

IRCM researchers fuel an important debate in the field of molecular biology

Dr. Francois Robert, molecular biology researcher at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), and his team confirmed that the phosphorylation of RNA polymerase II, a key enzyme in the process of gene ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Simpler times: Did an earlier genetic molecule predate DNA and RNA?

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the chemistry of the living world, a pair of nucleic acids—DNA and RNA—reign supreme. As carrier molecules of the genetic code, they provide all organisms with a mechanism for ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 117 | with audio podcast

Viagra against heart failure: Researchers throw light on the mechanism

How sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, can alleviate heart problems is reported by Bochum's researchers in cooperation with colleagues from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester (Minnesota) in the journal ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Severe congenital disorder successfully treated in a mouse model for the first time

Using a mouse model, Heidelberg University Hospital researchers have for the first time successfully treated a severe congenital disorder in which sugar metabolism is disturbed. The team headed by Prof. Christian Korner, ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Animal embryo' fossils are actually microbes (Update)

Tiny fossils that scientists have thought for decades were the embryos of the earliest animals ever found have turned out to be the remains of much simpler microbial organisms.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Previously unconnected molecular networks conspire to promote cancer

An inflammation-promoting protein triggers deactivation of a tumor-suppressor that usually blocks cancer formation via the NOTCH signaling pathway, a team of researchers led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicists report nanotechnology feat with proteins

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA physicists have made nanomechanical measurements of unprecedented resolution on protein molecules.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Unexpected signaling role for foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide in cell response to protein misfolding

Something rotten never smelled so sweet. This is what members of a team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) are telling one another as they discuss a new finding they did not expect to make. They have discovered ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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