News tagged with salt molecules

A role for calcium in taste perception

Calcium may not come to mind when you think of tasty foods, but in a study appearing in the January 8 issue of JBC, Japanese researchers have provided the first demonstration that calcium channels on the tongue ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop cheap, easy 'kitchen chemistry' to perform formerly complex synthesis

A team at The Scripps Research Institute has made major strides in solving a problem that has been plaguing chemists for many years: how best to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and then to create new bonds to join molecules together. ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Synthetic Cells Shed Biological Insights While Delivering Battery Power

(PhysOrg.com) -- Trying to understand the complex workings of a biological cell by teasing out the function of every molecule within it is a daunting task. But by making synthetic cells that include just a ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Salt block unexpectedly stretches in new experiments

To stretch a supply of salt generally means using it sparingly.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 4




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A bronze matryoshka doll: The metal in the metal in the metal

A doll in a doll, and then one more, enveloping them from the outside – this is how Thomas Faessler explains his molecule. He packs one atom in a cage within an atom framework. With their large surfaces ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Looks like we’re still looking for earthly life forms on other planets

In late 2010, NASA set the Internet buzzing when it called a press conference to discuss an astrobiological finding that would impact the search for extraterrestrial life. Many speculated that some primitive ...

Biology / Other

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

First complete 3D visualization of vitamin D receptor

For the first time, a team from the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, France, has obtained a high-resolution, full 3D image of a small but vital molecule locked ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rare kidney disease shows how salt, potassium levels are moderated

High blood pressure (hypertension) is a principal risk factor for heart disease and affects 1 billion people. At least half of them are estimated to be salt-sensitive; their blood pressure rises with sodium intake. New research ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemistry professor developing sustainable bioplastics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Colorado State University chemistry professor has developed several patent-pending chemical processes that would create sustainable bioplastics from renewable resources for use on everything ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A salt-free primordial soup?

Most scientists who study the origin of life assume that it occurred in the ocean. But a minority view is that ions in seawater may interfere with prebiotic chemistry, making a freshwater environment more ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists characterize protein essential to survival of malaria parasite

A biology lab at Washington University has just cracked the structure and function of a protein that plays a key role in the life of a parasite that killed 655,000 people in 2010.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NASA developing comet harpoon for sample return

(PhysOrg.com) -- The best way to grab a sample of a rotating comet that is racing through the inner solar system at up to 150,000 miles per hour while spewing chunks of ice, rock and dust may be to avoid the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanocrystals go bare: Stripping material’s tiny tethers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers with the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a universal technique for stripping nanocrystals of tether-like molecules that until now have posed as obstacles ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Regeneration of specialized cells offers hope for treating chronic kidney disease

Damage to podocytes -- a specialized type of epithelial cell in the kidney -- occurs in more than 90 percent of all chronic kidney disease. Now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have uncovered an unexpected ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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