Yeast cells do not normally eat complex sugars or carbohydrates, only simple sugars like glucose…
Month: September 2010
Frog skin may provide antimicrobial peptides effective against multidrug-resistant infections
Antimicrobial peptides from the skin of frogs may protect against life-threatening, multidrug-resistant infections such as…
Researchers give robots the capability for deceptive behavior
Researchers have published what is believed to be the first detailed examination of robot deception….
The Technological Tyranny of the Minority
Out in the Florida swamps, where men may be swamp things and believe in a…
Biofeedback for your brain?
There is new evidence that people can learn to control the activity of some brain…
Bionic speech recognition
Researchers in Tunisia have published details of a speech enhancement system that uses two distinct…
Limiting harmful acrylamide: Lactic acid bacteria to lower risk of cancer
A small research-based Norwegian company has developed a method to reduce the formation of the…
New method helps computer vision systems decipher outdoor scenes
Computer vision systems can struggle to make sense of a single image, but a new…
Critical ‘traffic engineer’ of the nervous system identified
Scientists have identified a critical enzyme that keeps traffic flowing in the right direction in…
‘Tractor beam’ one step closer to reality: Laser moves small particles
Researchers in Australia have developed the ability to move particles over large distances, using a…