A team of scientists has reconstructed how bacteria tightly control their growth and division, the…
Month: September 2014
Researchers define spontaneous retinal neovascular mouse model
Researchers have characterized a novel mutant mouse model, termed neoretinal vascularization 2, which develops abnormal…
Artificial cells take their first steps
Using only a few ingredients, a biophysicist and his team have successfully implemented a minimalistic…
Discrepancy in Greenland temperatures during end of last ice age resolved
A new study of three ice cores from Greenland documents the warming of the large…
Decoding the role of water in gold nanocatalysis: Secrets behind gold’s unexpected oxidation activity uncovered
Researchers have, for the first time, provided direct evidence of a water-mediated reaction mechanism for…
Coffee genome sheds light on the evolution of caffeine
An international research team has sequenced the genome of the coffee plant Coffea canephora. By…
3-D film no more effective in evoking emotion than 2-D
Researchers have examined whether 3-D film is more effective than 2-D when used as a…
Minimally invasive, high-performance intervention for staging lung cancer
Endoscopic biopsy of lymph nodes between the two lungs (mediastinum) is a sensitive and accurate…
Important regulators of immune cell response identified
A more effective method to determine how T cells differentiate into specialized cell types has…
Clues to trapping carbon dioxide in rock: Calcium carbonate takes multiple, simultaneous roads to different minerals
Researchers used a powerful microscope that allows them to see the birth of calcium carbonate…