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Bovine Blood Keeps Nanoparticles Stable
May 17, 2013 | by Rice Univ. | Comments
A protein from cow blood has the remarkable ability to keep gold nanoparticles from clumping in a solution.
System Combines Chromatography, Proteomics, Database to ID Proteins
May 17, 2013 11:04 am | by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Comments
Scientists combined chromatography, proteomics and a database search strategy to find higher...
Hard Seeds Evolved to Hide from Predators
May 17, 2013 10:59 am | by Kew Royal Botanic Gardens | Comments
Hard seeds are prevented from germinating by a water-impermeable seed coat, and for many years...
Research Uncovers Fundamental Property of Rarest Atom on Earth
May 17, 2013 10:50 am | by Univ. of York | Comments
Researcher carried out ground-breaking experiments to investigate the atomic structure of...
Laser Improves Imaging of Biological Molecules
May 17, 2013 11:14 am | by EPFL | CommentsScientists have developed a new infrared-UV laser method to more accurately determine the structure of proteins containing thousands of atoms.
Microfluidic Devices Help Obtain Chemical Images
May 17, 2013 11:11 am | by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | CommentsMicrofluidic devices are used to detect chemicals in small samples for health and security concerns. Now, this imaging technology is being applied to answer fundamental questions.
Research Overcomes the Oxide Barrier
May 17, 2013 11:09 am | by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | CommentsResearchers have uncovered the characteristics of a low-resistance electrical contact to strontium titanate— an important prototypical oxide semiconductor.
Lyme Disease Bacteria Can Exist Without Iron
April 11, 2013 11:15 am | by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | CommentsScientists have confirmed that the pathogen that causes Lyme disease— unlike any other known organism— can exist without iron, a metal that all other life needs to make proteins and enzymes.
GC Searches Seaweed-Derived Nutriments for Benefits
April 11, 2013 11:10 am | by European Research Media Center, Youris.com | CommentsThe prebiotic potential of seaweed-derived nutriments has to be further confirmed before marine nutritional supplements flood the shelves of health shops.
Hubble Sees Light, Dust in Starburst Galaxy
April 11, 2013 11:08 am | by NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope | CommentsA starburst galaxy is visible as a small, sparkling hook in the dark sky. It has an incredibly, and unusually, high rate of star formation occurring within it.
Tins were Not Downfall of Franklin Expedition
April 11, 2013 11:05 am | by Western Univ. | CommentsNew research challenges long-held beliefs regarding the demise of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Northwest Passage expedition that departed from England in 1845.
St. John’s Welcomed into Centers of Innovation
April 11, 2013 11:02 am | by Waters Corp. | CommentsAt a ceremony, Waters announced the selection of the St. John’s Research Institute for its Centers of Innovation Program for research in the field of structural proteomics.
Quantum Tricks Drive Magnetic Switching
April 11, 2013 10:59 am | by Ames Laboratory | CommentsResearchers have found a new way to switch magnetism that is at least 1,000 times faster than currently used in magnetic memory technologies.
GCMS IDs Breast Cancer's Metabolic Footprint
April 11, 2013 10:56 am | by Fox Chase Cancer Center | CommentsResearchers have identified a host of small molecules critical to metabolism in cells of triple-negative breast cancer— one of the least understood groups of breast cancer.
Exhaled Breath has a Fingerprint
April 11, 2013 10:51 am | by ETH Zurich | CommentsExhaled human breath contains a characteristic molecular “fingerprint.” The scientists want to use this finding to diagnose diseases based on the chemical analysis of patient's exhaled breath, using highly sensitive and precise instrumental methods.
Lab Tracks Chemicals in Water, Farmland
March 13, 2013 1:52 pm | by Univ. of Delaware | CommentsResearchers are working to find the fingerprints of isotopes in chemical elements—specifically phosphorus—in order to track sources of nutrients in the environmentally sensitive Chesapeake Bay, other bodies of water and farmland throughout the Mid-Atlantic.
Mass Spec Makes Biomass Tool Faster, More Precise
March 13, 2013 1:48 pm | by National Renewable Energy Laboratory | CommentsA screening tool from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) eases and greatly quickens one of the thorniest tasks in the biofuels industry: determining cell wall chemistry to find plants with ideal genes.
MS, HPLC Facilitates Better Understanding of Proteins
March 8, 2013 1:23 pm | by Simon Frasier Univ. | CommentsA new paper advances scientific understanding of the structure and function of glycoproteins, in particular the number and positioning of sugars on them. Glycoproteins are membrane proteins that are often involved in human diseases.
Blood-Clotting Snake Venom May Be New Drug Source
March 8, 2013 1:22 pm | by BioMed Central | CommentsThe powerful venom of the saw-scaled viper Echis carinatus contains both anticoagulants and coagulants. These may be a source of potent drugs to treat human disease, finds a study in the open access journal Journal of Venomous Animals.
