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Scientists take a step towards uncovering the histone code

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have determined the structures of two enzymes that customize histones, the spool-like proteins around which DNA coils inside the cell.


What's in health care proposals for 5 Americans (AP)

What's in health care proposals for 5 Americans

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 6

(AP) -- As Congress gets closer to a final health care bill, many Americans want to know: What's in it for me?


Climate talks end with eye on next year (AP)

Climate talks end with eye on next year

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 19, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(AP) -- A historic U.N. climate conference ended Saturday with only a nonbinding "Copenhagen Accord" to show for two weeks of debate and frustration. It was a deal short on concrete steps against global warming, ...


Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Lights Up Sky

Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Lights Up Sky

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It looked like a light show in Elkton, Md., on Tuesday, Dec. 15, as NASA ground tested a full-scale attitude control motor, or ACM. The motor operated with precision as its elaborate eight-valve ...


Nissan Leaf

Electric cars rolling out

Technology / Energy

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electric vehicles are far from new, but we are still a long way from electric cars being the norm. Now two new electric cars may bring that goal a step closer.


DNA needs a good editor: Researchers unravel the mysteries of DNA packaging

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Imagine a huge spool of film containing thousands of sequences of random scenes. Without a talented editor, a screening would have no meaning.


Research reveals further progress toward AIDS vaccine

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PHILADELPHIA) Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University are one step closer to developing a vaccine against the AIDS disease.


Consumers overpredict the use of holiday gifts

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Before you add that fancy "it" gadget to your holiday wish list, you should know you're not going to use it as much as you think you will. For a better estimate of the use you'll get out of your new toy, ask a stranger.


Why King Kong failed to impress

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Humans have the same receptors for detecting odors related to sex as do other apes and primates. But each species uses them in different ways, stemming from the way the genes for these receptors have evolved over time, according ...


Researchers demonstrate nanoscale X-ray imaging of bacterial cells

Researchers demonstrate nanoscale X-ray imaging of bacterial cells

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An ultra-high-resolution imaging technique using X-ray diffraction is a step closer to fulfilling its promise as a window on nanometer-scale structures in biological samples. In the Proceedings of the National Ac ...



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