Jellyfish Help To Make Sugar Smarter
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...similar to the GA733 antigen in humans, scientists working in theWistar Institute laboratory of Dorothee Herlyn, D.V.M., are gaining valuableinformation about the GA733 antigen's role in tumor growth and metastases. Their findings appear in the May 6 Journal of the National Cancer Institute. One of their mo...New Machine Slashes Time, Cost To Make Unique Lenses
...iversity of Rochester and sevencorporate partners, working with the U.S. Department of Defense'sAdvanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have developed thefirst system to automate the manufacture of unusually shapedlenses known as aspheres. Officials at the University's Centerfor Optics Manufacturing (COM)...The Distinctive Sound Of Cholesterol
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...long stringlikemolecules that fold into the cell's working proteins. Specifically, ribonuclease P is a molecular scissors that helps turna newly synthesized precursor into a functioning tRNA molecule by snippingoff an extraneous segment at one end of the "pre-tRNA" molecule.Similarly, ribonuclease P helps a......e open questions in starch metabolism, researchers working in Jens Kossmanns in the department headed by Lothar Willmitzer at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Golm-Potsdam have isolated proteins bound to potato starch granules, raised antisera t...DFG To Set Up 32 New Postgraduate Research Groups - First "Virtual Research Group"
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...h unit Life in trend curves. Flexible normalism in working and everyday life,the media, elementary literature and fiction. They intend to point out differences betweenvalid norms and what is considered "normal". The object of the planned investigations will behuman behavioural patterns which are described in...Scientists Unearth Remains Of A Predatory Dinosaur In Madagascar
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...izmann Institute'sBiological Chemistry Department, working with an international team ofresearchers, has now discovered that this ability is particularlyprominent in antibodies, the Y-shaped proteins produced by the immunesystem. Antibodies fight disease-causing intruders, such as viruses, bybinding with t...COGA Suggests Genetic Loci For P3 Brain Wave Abnormality
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