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Just like old times: Generating RNA molecules in water

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A key question in the origin of biological molecules like RNA and DNA is how they first came together billions of years ago from simple precursors. Now, in a study appearing in this week's Journal of Biological Chemistry, resear ...


Scientists show how ubiquitin chains are added to cell-cycle proteins

Scientists show how ubiquitin chains are added to cell-cycle proteins

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have been able to view in detail, and for the first time, the previously mysterious process by which long chains of a protein called ubiquitin ...


A Tiny Cage of Gold Responds to Light, Opening to Empty Its Contents

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a polymer-coated gold nanocage that not only opens in response to light to release a small amount of a drug payload, but then closes when the ...


Spinons -- confined like quarks

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 2

The concept of confinement is one of the central ideas in modern physics. The most famous example is that of quarks which bind together to form protons and neutrons. Now Prof. Bella Lake from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (Germany) ...


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Popcorn at the movies still an unhealthy treat

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study carried out in 1994 by advocacy group CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest) found that popcorn being sold by cinema chains in the US was high in saturated fat and calories, ...


Long-term testicular cancer survivors at high risk for neurological side effects

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Long-term survivors of testicular cancer who were treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy had more severe side effects, including neurological side effects and Raynaud-like phenomena, than men who were not treated with ...


Study confirms that cannabis is beneficial for multiple sclerosis

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Cannabis can reduce spasticity in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. A systematic review, published in the open access journal BMC Neurology, found that five out six randomized controlled trials reported a reduction in spa ...


Glaxo's swine flu shot may give kids fever

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The European Medicines Agency warns that young children given GlaxoSmithKline's swine flu shot may get a fever after their second dose.


Research Finds Ritalin's Benefits in Treating Children with Autism

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UA researchers present evidence that the Ritalin is effective in treating preschoolers with Autism in a first-ever clinical trial to test the medication's efficacy with children with the disorder.


Solving the 50-year-old puzzle of thalidomide

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Research into the controversial drug thalidomide reveals that the mechanism through which the drug causes limb defects is the same process which causes it to damage internal organs and other tissues. The article, published ...



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