Items tagged with Molecule

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RNA Interference Suppresses Ovarian Tumor Thursday, February 12th, 2009 - 14:05:59 - Anuradha Menon Small RNA molecules can effectively keep ovarian tumors from growing and spreading in mice, according to a team of researchers from MIT, the Lankenau... read more

The Smallest Possible Switches Friday, January 23rd, 2009 - 14:27:29 - Anuradha Menon The smallest mechanical switch plus an electronic switch of a type never seen before. That’s how physicist Marius Trouwborst sums up the results of... read more

Nano 'Tractor Beam' Traps DNA Thursday, January 1st, 2009 - 10:36:36 - Anuradha Menon Using a beam of light shunted through a tiny silicon channel, researchers have created a nanoscale trap that can stop free floating DNA molecules and... read more

Researching Viral Powerful 'Molecular Motor' Sunday, December 28th, 2008 - 13:48:26 - Ehud Rattner Researchers have discovered the atomic structure of a powerful "molecular motor" that packages DNA into the head segment of some viruses during their... read more

Ancient Bacteria Attacks Cystic Fibrosis Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 - 10:03:44 - Anuradha Menon MIT researchers have found that the pigments responsible for the blue-green stain of the mucus that clogs the lungs of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients... read more

Reversing the Conventional DNA Wisdom Friday, December 5th, 2008 - 12:33:49 - Anuradha Menon The copying of DNA's master instructions into messenger molecules of RNA, a process known as DNA transcription, has always been thought to be a... read more

Sweet Molecule Could Lead Us To Alien Life Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 - 14:37:38 - Anuradha Menon Scientists have detected an organic sugar molecule that is directly linked to the origin of life, in a region of our galaxy where habitable planets... read more

Steering Electrons Using Laser Pulses Friday, November 14th, 2008 - 14:57:31 - Anuradha Menon Theoretical physicist Uwe Thumm and his colleagues Feng He and Andreas Becker not only work with some of the smallest molecules in the universe, but... read more

Red Meat Target for Disease-Causing Bacteria Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 - 14:17:10 - Anuradha Menon Offering another reason why eating red meat could be bad for you, an international research team, including University of California, San Diego... read more

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