Earth’s most successful bacteria are found in the oceans and belong to the group SAR11….
Month: September 2011
Go global with Android, from Voice Actions to PlayStation games (Appolicious)
Appolicious – Maintaining a presence across two continents can be a daunting task, but the…
New threat closes in on iconic Galápagos wildlife
Renewed vigilance over the biosecurity of the Galápagos Islands is needed, based on new research…
Quantum behavior with a flash
Just as a camera flash illuminates unseen objects hidden in darkness, a sequence of laser…
Moms who eat high-fat diet before, during pregnancy ‘program’ babies to be fat, at risk
New research in mice indicates that babies born to moms who eat a high-fat diet…
Myanmar lifts bans on foreign news websites (Reuters)
Reuters – Myanmar lifted bans on prominent news websites on Thursday, including some run by…
Number of children poisoned by medication rising dramatically, study says
The number of young children admitted to hospitals or seen in emergency departments because they…
Temperature controls the genetic message
Alternative splicing, the mechanism enabling a gen to encode different proteins, according to the cell’s…
Newest cancer therapies multi-task to eliminate tumors
Some of the newest therapies in the war on cancer remove the brakes cancer puts…
Lack of protein FKBP51 in old mice improves resilience to depressive behavior
Decreasing expression of a protein associated with susceptibility to depression made old mice resistant to…