Scientists used fruit flies to show for the first time that a new class of…
Month: August 2013
A powerful strategy for developing microbial cell factories by employing synthetic small RNAs
Scientists have reported the development of a strategy for efficiently developing microbial cell factories by…
Scientists devise innovative method to profile and predict the behavior of proteins
A team of researchers has found a way to map an enzyme’s underlying molecular machinery,…
Chemists’ work will aid drug design to target cancer and inflammatory disease
Chemists have produced detailed descriptions of the structure and molecular properties of human folate receptor…
Cesareans weaken gut microbiota and increase risk of allergies
Children who came into the world by Cesarean section are more often affected by allergies…
Cellphone use may not cause more car crashes
A new study uses data from a major cellphone provider and accident reports to contradict…
Molecules form 2-D patterns never before observed: Nanoscience experiments produce elusive 5-vertex tilings
Tessellation patterns that have fascinated mathematicians since Kepler worked out their systematics 400 years ago…
‘Digging up’ 4-billion-year-old fossil protein structures to reveal how they evolved
Very little is known about how and when over the course of evolution 3-D protein…
Genetic evidence shows recent population mixture in India
Researchers have found that modern-day India is the result of recent population mixture among divergent…
Latino genomes point way to hidden DNA
Researchers have discovered the hiding place of 20 million base pairs of human genome sequence,…