11-12-09 Food prices are soaring at the same time as Earth's population is nearing 9 billion. As a result the need for increased crop yields is extremely important. New research led by Carnegie's Wolf Frommer into the system by which sugars are moved through...

11-11-25 Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine describe for the first time a key target of DNA damage checkpoint enzymes that must be chemically modified to enable stable maintenance of chromosome ends by telomerase（端粒酶...

11-06-30 A new treatment option may soon be available for children with neuroblastoma（成神经细胞瘤） according to research published in the July issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The study tested the principle that combined positron emission（正电子...

11-05-26 For decades, autism（自闭症） researchers have faced a baffling riddle: how to unravel a disorder that leaves no known physical trace as it develops in the brain. Now a UCLA study is the first to reveal how the disorder makes its mark at the molecul...

11-03-21 With intensity a million times brighter than sunlight, a new synchrotron（同步加速器） -based imaging technique offers high-resolution pictures of the molecular composition of tissues with unprecedented speed and quality. Carol Hirschmugl, a physici...

11-03-04 Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have discovered that a natural product isolated from a traditional Chinese medicinal plant commonly known as thunder god vine（雷公藤） , or lei gong teng, and used for hundreds of years to treat m...

10-11-03 NJIT Associate Professor Victor Matveev, PhD, in the department of mathematical sciences, was part of a research team that published N-type Ca2+ channels carry the largest current: Implications for nanodomains and transmitter（发射机） release, in N...

10-10-31 Scientists of the Max Delbrck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC) of MDC and Charit in Berlin-Buch have gained new insights into the development of epithelial cells（上皮细胞） and...

10-09-15 An international team of researchers has identified a risk gene for schizophrenia（精神分裂症） , including a potentially causative mutation（突变，变化） , using genome-wide association data-mining techniques and independent replications. The resul...

10-07-19 Chemists from New York University and Russia's St. Petersburg State University have created crystals that can twist and untwist, pointing to a much more varied process of crystal growth than previously thought. Their work, which appears in the lates...