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Unforeseen impacts of the fair trade movement
Fair trade certified coffee is the kind of phrase that sounds good on a Whole Foods shelf, the type of...
‘Tree-on-a-chip’ passively pumps water for days
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Trees and other plants, from towering redwoods to diminutive daisies, are nature's hydraulic pumps. They are constantly...
Stem cells seem speedier in space
Credit: BioServe Inc., University of Colorado Growing significant numbers of human stem cells in a short time could lead to...
New catalysts mimic human vision
Credit: ICIQ Photoreceptors in vertebrates typically consist of two different, colourless parts: an organic pigment and a protein. When both...
Scientists find possible Achilles heel of treatment-resistant cancers
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists identify two signaling proteins in cancer cells that make them resistant to chemotherapy, and...
How plants can tell friend from foe
Credit: 2017 Kyungmin Baeg, Hiro-oki Iwakawa, and Yukihide Tomari. The plant's immune system can recognize whether a piece of RNA...
Data published in Nature Methods demonstrate breakthrough ability to accurately detect somatic single nucleotide variations in single cells
SingulOmics Corporation, a recently established genomic research and service company, announced today the publication of data validating the company's core...
Disrupting prostate cancer ‘homing signal’ could hold promise for new treatments
Loading video... Credit: Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London. New King's College London research sheds light on the cellular...
Novel genes identified that help suppress prostate and other cancers
New genes which help prevent prostate, skin and breast cancer development in mice have been discovered by researchers at the...
Single-cell analysis reveals subtypes of colorectal tumors
Combining single-cell genomics and computational techniques, a research team including Paul Robson, Ph.D., director of single-cell biology at The Jackson...
Gene editing technique helps find cancer’s weak spots
Credit: UC San Diego Health Genetic mutations that cause cancer also weaken cancer cells, creating an opportunity for researchers to...
Researchers discover key to drug resistance in common breast cancer treatment
Credit: James McEntee JUPITER, FL - March 20, 2017 - Three-quarters of all breast cancer tumors are driven by the...
‘Flying saucer’ quantum dots hold secret to brighter, better lasers
Credit: Dr. Alex Voznyy/U of T Engineering Fresh insights into living cells, brighter video projectors and more accurate medical tests...
Study points a way to better implantable medical devices
Credit: Photo-illustration by Felice Frankel CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Medical devices implanted in the body for drug delivery, sensing, or tissue...
New feedback system could allow greater control over fusion plasma
(DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) A physicist has created a new system that will let scientists control the energy and rotation...
A pocket-sized retina camera, no dilating required
Credit: Bailey Shen. It's the part of the eye exam everyone hates: the pupil-dilating eye drops. The drops work by...
Tracing down linear ubiquitination
Credit: Koraljka Husnjak using PyMOL software FRANKFURT. Ubiquitin is a small protein that can be linked to other cellular proteins,...
TU Graz researchers show that enzyme function inhibits battery ageing
Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz It has been known in biology for a long time that the excited oxygen...
Molecular scale transporter with a twist, powered by liquid crystal defects
Defects that break the symmetry of otherwise orderly material are called topological defects. In solid crystals, they are called dislocations...
Hubble’s glittering frisbee galaxy
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA This image from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) shows a section of NGC 1448, a...
