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Study Examines Racial 'Blind Spots' in Chicago Area Communities

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Racial residential segregation in the Chicago area may be perpetuated by a lack of knowledge of communities across racial lines, according to a new study led by a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher.


Creation of new school districts in US may cause a new form of segregation

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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

Although the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 overturned segregation within many U.S. metropolitan communities and districts, school districts were slow to change and have remained segregated between districts. ...


Researchers determine the composition of centromeric chromatin

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Stowers Institute's Gerton Lab has provided new evidence to clarify the structure of nucleosomes containing Cse4, a centromere-specific histone protein required for proper kinetochore function, which plays a critical ...


Double success for Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia scientists working on chromosome segregation

Portuguese scientists working on chromosome segregation

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lars Jansen's work on the formation of the centromere, a key cellular structure in powering and controlling chromosome segregation and accurate cell division, has just earned him a paper in Nature Cell Bi ...


Two-handed microbes point to new method for isolating harmful forms of chemicals

Microbes point to method for isolating harmful forms of drugs

Physics / Soft Matter

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at MIT and Brown University studying how marine bacteria move recently discovered that a sharp variation in water current segregates right-handed bacteria from their left-handed ...


Hispanics appear to face poorer quality nursing home care

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Nursing homes serving primarily Hispanic residents provided poorer quality care compared to facilities whose patients were mostly white, according to Brown University research. Details were published recently in the Journal of ...


New images of marine microbe illuminate carbon and nitrogen fixation

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Trichodesmium is unusual among marine microbes because it both "breathes" carbon dioxide like plants, while also taking nitrogen gas from the air and "fixing" it into a fertilizer of the seas.


Measuring the strength needed to move chromosomes

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s about as long as the width of a human hair and only half that length across. So it’s tiny — measured in millionths of a meter — and extremely tricky to manipulate. But the meiotic spindle plays so irresistibly ...


Researchers identify potential cancer target

Researchers identify potential cancer target

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth Medical School researchers have found two proteins that work in concert to ensure proper chromosome segregation during cell division. Their study is in the January 2009 issue of ...


Dartmouth researchers find new protein function

Dartmouth researchers find new protein function

Biology /

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A group of Dartmouth researchers has found a new function for one of the proteins involved with chromosome segregation during cell division. Their finding adds to the growing knowledge about the fundamental ...