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A tiny molecule called olympicene has been synthesized by a team of European scientists. The molecule, C19H12, is only 1.2 nanometers wide—about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. The idea began with Graham Richards, a member of the U.K.’s Royal ...
May 27, 2012 at 22:42 | Source: The Epoch Times
Researchers at Cornell University have developed a nanofluidic device that can be used to analyze epigenetic changes in the DNA by studying one molecule at a time. Epigenetics is the study of changes inherited in gene expressions caused by ...
May 25, 2012 at 07:07 | Source: AZoNano.com
ACE2, a molecule that has been shown to prevent damage in the heart, is now proving to be protective of the major organs that are often damaged in diabetic patients. Gavin Oudit, a researcher with the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, and his colleagues at ...
May 16, 2012 at 15:31 | Source: EurekAlert
Scientists continue to debate the merits of resveratrol, the so-called "miracle molecule" found in red wine, according to Heather Hausenblas, Ph.D., of the University of Florida College of Health and Human Performance. Research shows that resveratrol may ...
May 22, 2012 at 16:07 | Source: PRWeb
One way to do that is to create a microscopic hard drive out of DNA, the molecule that already stores the genetic blueprints of all living things. Stanford University bioengineer Drew Endy is a pioneer in the field of synthetic biology ...
May 26, 2012 at 05:04 | Source: Los Angeles Times
According to a recent article by Paul J. Zak in the Wall Street Journal, people do want to be kind. All one has to do "to trigger this moral molecule is give someone a sign of trust" -- just like I do, every time I stand by the side of a road with my thumb ...
May 14, 2012 at 20:41 | Source: Huffington Post
A collaboration between the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the University of Warwick and IBM Research – Zurich has allowed the scientists to bring a single molecule to life in a picture, using a combination of clever synthetic chemistry and ...
May 28, 2012 at 00:08 | Source: sciencecodex.com
Molecular 'switch' that directly triggers the body's first line of defence against pathogens, more precisely called the body's ‘innate immunity’, identified by researchers. They found that this molecule -- called Bruton's tyrosine kinase ...
May 23, 2012 at 14:04 | Source: Med India
Theologians and philosophers are unlikely to retire from the field based on the evidence of "The Moral Molecule" and "Moral Origins," but thinkers everywhere will be forced—as they are in many arenas—to consider biology in realms that once seemed ...
May 25, 2012 at 22:01 | Source: Wall Street Journal
(Phys.org) -- One of the fundamental building blocks in modern chemistry, an organometallic chemical compound called ferrocene, has never been structurally defined - until now. Millions of dollars are being spent investigating opportunities to ...
May 25, 2012 at 12:22 | Source: phys.org