Bacteria Recycle Broken DNA
From a bacteria’s perspective the environment is one big DNA waste yard. Researchers have now shown that bacteria can take up small as well as...
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Researchers Find Protein That Regulates Burning of Body Fat
The uncoupling Protein 1 (UCP1) is found exclusively in brown adipose tissue. Until some years ago it was thought that only babies and hibernating animals...
‘Mini-Kidney’ Structures Generated from Human Stem Cells
Diseases affecting the kidneys represent a major and unsolved health issue worldwide. The kidneys rarely recover function once they are damaged by disease, highlighting the...
Researchers Improve Nanopore-Based Technology for Detecting DNA Molecules
If we wanted to count the number of people in a crowd, we could make on the fly estimates, very likely to be imprecise, or...
Protein Coding ‘Junk Genes’ May Be Linked to Cancer
By using a new analysis method, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Sweden have found close to one hundred novel...
Chaotic Physics in Ferroelectrics Hints at Brain-Like Computing
Unexpected behaviour in ferroelectric materials explored by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory supports a new approach to information storage and...
3-D Virtual Birth Simulator
Computer scientists from the University of East Anglia are working to create a virtual birthing simulator that will help doctors and midwives prepare for unusual...
Building ‘nanomachines’ in biological outer space
Cambridge scientists have uncovered the mechanism by which bacteria build their surface propellers (flagella) – the long extensions that allow them to swim towards food...
Mind-Reading Robots Coming Ever Closer
If you think with the release of every new i-device the world is getting closer to thought-controlled smart tech and robotic personal assistants, you might...
Better Batteries Through Biology?
MIT researchers have found a way to boost lithium-air battery performance, with the help of modified viruses. MIT researchers find a way to boost lithium-air...
Stem cell breakthrough could set up future transplant therapies
A new method for developing stem cells enables the production of liver and pancreatic cells in “clinically relevant” quantities for the first time, paving the...
Single-Cell Genome Sequencing Gets Better
Researchers led by bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have generated the most complete genome sequences from single E. coli cells and individual...
HPV Inserts Own DNA Into Human DNA
The virus that causes cervical, head and neck, anal and other cancers can damage chromosomes and genes where it inserts its DNA into human DNA,...
Your Brain Sees Things You Don’t, Says Study
University of Arizona doctoral degree candidate Jay Sanguinetti has authored a new study, published online in the journal Psychological Science, that indicates that the brain...
Photographer And Her Daughter With Down Syndrome Collaborate On Beautiful Portraits Of One Another
At first, it was Irish-born photographer and mother Emer Gillespie who was behind the camera. But after Laoisha, her young daughter, starting asking to take...
