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| Breaking Biomass Better: DOE JGI Sequences Wood Decaying Fungus to Advance Biofuels Prospects | |
 | One of the challenges in making cellulosic biofuels commercially viable is to cost-effectively deconstruct plant material to liberate fermentable ener... |
| Novel Antiviral: LJ-double-o-one is shown to be effective against more than 20 viruses | |
 | In our 25 years in microbiology, Dave, we've seen a lot of progress against infectious diseases. At the same time, new pathogens have emerged and now,... |
| Researchers Find New Translocation; Weak Spots in DNA Cause Genetic Disease | |
 | A genetics research team based at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia continues to discover recurrent translocations-places in which two chromosom... |
| Beware the smell of bitter almonds. Why do many food plants contain cyanide? | |
 | In murder mysteries, the detective usually diagnoses cyanide poisoning by the scent of bitter almonds wafting from the corpse. The detective knows wha... |
| Study finds structural brain alterations in patients with irritable bowel syndrome A large academic study has demonstrated structural changes in specific brain regions in female patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a conditi... |
| Excellence programs do not identify safest hospitals for bariatric surgery New data emerges this week about the safety of bariatric surgery and the quality of hospitals that perform the increasingly common weight loss procedu... |
| Martian Dust Devil Whirls into Opportunity's View | |
 | In its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic ... |
| Study: Weight issues move up need for walkers, canes, other devices Obese older adults are more likely to use walkers, canes and other mobility devices at a younger age, and may run the risk of using them incorrectly, ... |
| Two Catalysts Are Better Than One Much like two children in the back seat of a car, it can be challenging to get two catalysts to cooperate for the greater good. Now Northwestern Unive... |
| Unraveling the Matrix to Improve Signal-processing Applications and Data-compression Schemes | |
 | Among the most common tools in electrical engineering and computer science are rectangular grids of numbers known as matrices. The numbers in a matrix... |
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Cosmonauts Complete First Expedition 24 Spacewalk
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Martian Dust Devil Whirls into Opportunity's ViewIn its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars E...more
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Cancer
St. Jude scientists develop new genomics-based approach to understand the origin of cancer subgroupsUnique combinations of cells and mutations lie at the heart of cancer subgr...moreResearchers identify DNA damage repair gene in Fanconi anemia pathwayAfter more than a century of technological refinements, zippers still get s...moreMore Cancer News (SciGuru.com)
Diabetes
New Compound Improves Obesity-Related Health Complications in NIH-Led StudyAn experimental compound appears to improve metabolic abnormalities associa...moreCholine Deficiency May Hinder Fetal Brain Development Lack of choline during pregnancy may lead to reduced blood vessel growth in...moreMore Diabetes News (SciGuru.com)
Heart
Calcium Connections: Penn Researchers Discover Basic Pathway for Maintaining Cell's Fuel StoresUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers have described a ...moreTreatment to Prevent Strokes Varies Nationwide Treatment to clear up blockage in the carotid arteries of the neck to preve...moreMore Heart News (SciGuru.com)
Allergy, Immunology
Disease genes that followed the Silk Road identifiedUniversity of Manchester researchers, working as part of a large internatio...moreUT MD Anderson Study Ties Abnormal Cells in Blood to Lung CancerA novel approach detects genetically abnormal cells in the blood of non-sma...moreMore Allergy, Immunology News (SciGuru.com)
Brain
Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Children Undergoing Heart Surgery Does Not Affect Neurocognitive FunctionSchool-aged children who undergo cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) during surger...moreIn the 'neck' of time: Scientists unravel key evolutionary trait leading to better brain powerBy deciphering the genetics in humans and fish, scientists now believe that...moreMore Brain News (SciGuru.com)
Infectious Diseases
HIV Components Drive Bone Breakdown, Even without Active InfectionAlthough individuals who are HIV positive can now expect to live longer bec...moreRNA offers a safer way to reprogram cellsIn recent years, scientists have shown that they can reprogram human skin c...moreMore Infectious Diseases News (SciGuru.com)
Aging
Mountain marmots made bigger by climate change, says new studyThe research, carried out by scientists at Imperial College London and coll...moreCholine Deficiency May Hinder Fetal Brain Development Lack of choline during pregnancy may lead to reduced blood vessel growth in...moreMore Aging News (SciGuru.com)
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Animals
Progress on a Universal Flu VaccineResearchers have developed a method to generate antibodies that attack a di...moreProtein Links Plant Growth and Disease Resistance: New function for similar protein in Alzheimer'sScience is exciting when new connections are discovered between parts of th...moreMore Animal News (SciGuru.com)
Plants
Findings show promise for nuclear fusion test reactorsResearchers have discovered mechanisms critical to interactions between hot...moreThe Flight of Migrating MicrobesEvery day, millions of microorganisms travel with the wind from one place o...moreMore Plants News (SciGuru.com)
Evolution
Researchers identify DNA damage repair gene in Fanconi anemia pathwayAfter more than a century of technological refinements, zippers still get s...more'Runaway' development implicated in loss of function of the aging brainThe brain undergoes rapid growth and development in the early years of life...moreMore Evolution News (SciGuru.com)
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NASA
Stars Just Got Bigger: A 300 Solar Mass Star UncoveredUsing a combination of instruments on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronome...moreThe Flight of Migrating MicrobesEvery day, millions of microorganisms travel with the wind from one place o...moreMore NASA News (SciGuru.com)
Mars
Video Camera Will Show Mars Rover's TouchdownA downward-pointing camera on the front-left side of NASA's Curiosity rover...moreCore values set new date for birth of the EarthThe Earth could be up to 70 million years younger than scientists previousl...moreMore Mars News (SciGuru.com)
Moon
See Beautiful Ontario Lacus: Cassini's Guided TourOntario Lacus, the largest lake in the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon...moreCore values set new date for birth of the EarthThe Earth could be up to 70 million years younger than scientists previousl...moreMore Moon News (SciGuru.com)
Hubble
RXTE Homes in on a Black Hole's JetsFor decades, X-ray astronomers have studied the complex behavior of binary ...moreShuttle Computers Navigate Record of ReliabilityIn other words, when it comes to flying the shuttle, reliability means far ...moreMore Hubble News (SciGuru.com)
Galaxy
Black Hole Blows Big BubbleCombining observations made with ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chan...moreR Coronae Australis: A Cosmic WatercolorThe star R Coronae Australis lies in one of the nearest and most spectacula...moreMore Galaxy News (SciGuru.com)
Asteroid
Rosetta triumphs at asteroid LutetiaAsteroid Lutetia has been revealed as a battered world of many craters. ESA...moreHeavy Metal Rock Set to Take the StageOn its way to a 2014 rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the E...moreMore Asteroid News (SciGuru.com)