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Making Biofuels Cheaper by Putting Plants to Work

April 7, 2020
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Berkeley, CA — Biofuels are an important part of the broader strategy to replace petroleum-based gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels that we use today. However, biofuels have so far not reached cost parity...

Nanopore Reveals Shape-Shifting Enzyme Linked to Catalysis

April 7, 2020
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Groningen, Netherlands — University of Groningen scientists observed the characteristics of a single enzyme inside a nanopore. This revealed that the enzyme can exist in four different folded states,...

Researcher Leads World in Single-Cell Transcriptome Profiling

April 7, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — With the goal of ensuring that single-cell RNA sequencing, a current focus of intense research, makes use of the best possible methods, an international group has benchmarked 13 different...

Scientists Reveal Brain Tumours Impact Normally Helpful Cells

April 7, 2020
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Blacksburg, VA — When the brain gets injured, star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes come to the rescue. In the case of glioma – the most common type of primary brain tumour – this protective...

Viruses Don’t Have a Metabolism; But Some Have Building Blocks For One

April 7, 2020
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Blacksburg, VA — In satellite photos of the Earth, clouds of bright green bloom across the surface of lakes and oceans as algae populations explode in nutrient-rich water. From the air, the algae appear...

Follow Your Gut

April 7, 2020
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Lisboa, Portugal — Food has something of a “magic hold” on us, as certain flavours and textures can pretty much dictate what we do. Just think about the spicy dish that keeps bringing you...

Mysteries of Uranus’ Oddities Explained by Japanese Astronomers

April 7, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — The ice giant Uranus’ unusual attributes have long puzzled scientists. All of the planets in our Solar System revolve around the Sun in the same direction and in the same plane,...

New Way to Deliver Drugs in MOFs

April 6, 2020
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Warsaw, Poland — Scientists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC PAS) in cooperation with the Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology...

Coronavirus: Virological Findings from Patients Treated in Munich hospital

April 6, 2020
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Berlin, Germany — In early February, research teams from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, München Klinik Schwabing and the Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology published initial findings...

Possible Coronavirus Drug Identified by Australian Scientists

April 6, 2020
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Melbourne, Australia — A collaborative study led by Monash University’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) in Melbourne, Australia, with the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity...

Tissue Dynamics Provide Clues to Human Disease

April 6, 2020
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Heidelberg, Germany — Our vertebral column is a highly repetitive structure – 33 vertebrae from top to bottom. This arrangement is created in the embryo by the sequential formation of a long...

New Family of Molecules to Join Altered Receptors in Neurodegenerative Diseases

April 6, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — An article published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry shows a new family of molecules with high affinity to join imidazoline receptors, which are altered in the brain of those...

Removing Novel Coronavirus from Water Cycle

April 6, 2020
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Riverside, CA — Scientists know that coronaviruses, including the SARS-CoV-19 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, can remain infectious for days — or even longer — in sewage and...

Wearing Surgical Masks in Public could Help Slow COVID-19 Pandemic’s Advance

April 6, 2020
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College Park, MD — Surgical masks may help prevent infected people from making others sick with seasonal viruses, including coronaviruses, according to new research that could help settle a fierce...

Direct Protein-to-Protein Binding Couples Cell Survival to Cell Proliferation

April 6, 2020
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Birmingham, AL — Human cells respond to stresses like DNA damage, metabolic imbalance and starvation by first trying to repair the problem. If that does not work, the cells then induce programmed cell...

Study Identifies New Temperature Sensing Mechanism in Plants

April 6, 2020
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Riverside, CA — A protein called phytochrome B, which can sense light and temperature, triggers plant growth and controls flowering time. How it does so is not fully understood. In a paper published...

Using Sponges to Wipe Out Cancer

April 6, 2020
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Columbia, SC — A sponge found in Manado Bay, Indonesia, makes a molecule called manzamine A, which stops the growth of cervical cancer cells, according to a recent publication in the Journal of Natural...

Researchers Develop a Computer Simulator That Recreates the Spread of COVID-19 in Europe

April 3, 2020
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Madrid, Spain — A team of Spanish researchers have designed and validated a simulator to enable study of the evolution of the COVID-19 illness in Spain and in all Europe, based on parameters such as...

Repair Instead of Renew: Damaged Powerhouses of Cells Have Their Own ‘Workshop Mode’

April 3, 2020
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Cologne, Germany — If the energy supply of a cell is disturbed by damage, it can protect itself from functional losses and repair itself in a kind of workshop mode. That is the result of a new study...

Single Mutation Leads to Big Effects in Autism-Related Gene

April 3, 2020
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Bethesda, MD — A new study in Neuron offers clues to why autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is more common in boys than in girls. National Institutes of Health scientists found that a single amino acid...

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