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Switchable Nanostructures Made with DNA

Switchable Nanostructures Made with DNA

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(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 ...


New source discovered for the generation of nerve cells in the brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The research group of Professor Magdalena Gotz of Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich (Germany) has made a significant advance in understanding regeneration processes in the brain. The researchers ...


The Meandering Channels of Mars

The Meandering Channels of Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Sinuous channels on the Martian surface may be evidence of relatively recent rainfall. Researchers plan to test this hypothesis by studying sinuous streams on Earth.


Delaying the aging process protects against Alzheimer's disease

Delaying the aging process protects against Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Aging is the single greatest risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. In their latest study, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies found that simply slowing the aging process in mice prone to ...


Self-destructing bacteria improve renewable biofuel production

Self-destructing bacteria improve renewable biofuel production

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Arizona State University research team has developed a process that removes a key obstacle to producing lower-cost, renewable biofuels. The team has programmed a photosynthetic microbe ...


Researchers develop revolutionary technology for manufacturing micro-scale devices

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cranfield University has developed new technology that could significantly reduce the manufacturing costs of complex devices such as electronic noses that sniff out explosives and dangerous chemicals and ...


Grooving Down the Helix

Grooving down the helix: Researchers show how proteins slide along DNA to carry out vital biological processes

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists has made a major step in understanding how molecules locate the genetic information in DNA that is necessary to carry out important biological processes.


3 Questions: Suzanne Corkin on the world's most famous amnesic

3 Questions: Suzanne Corkin on the world's most famous amnesic

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

H.M., the well-known amnesic patient whose condition helped scientists understand memory and memory impairment, died a year ago at the age of 82. H.M. (whose full name, Henry Gustav Molaison, was disclosed ...


Researchers discover a way to strengthen proteins

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Proteins, which perform such vital roles in our bodies as building and maintaining tissues and regulating cellular processes, are a finicky lot. In order to work properly, they must be folded just so, yet many proteins readily ...


Synthetic protein mimics structure, function of metalloprotein in nature

Synthetic protein mimics structure, function of metalloprotein in nature

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists have designed a synthetic protein that is both a structural model and a functional model of a native protein, nitric-oxide reductase.


Pathological gambling may be successfully treated with medications for substance addiction

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pathological gambling can be successfully treated with medications that decrease urges and increase inhibitions, according to researchers at the annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP). Researchers ...