Science ExpressFemale lizards improve their fitness by biasing the sex ratio of their progeny on the basis of sire body size. The presence of an intervening CO2 molecule dramatically changes the electron transfer probability between two halogen atoms. Nuclei composed of antimatter are found to form in the high-energy collisions of gold ions. Marine mussel byssal threads have an outer coating in which proteins are linked to metal ions. The innate immune system may promote metabolic health through effects on gut microbes. |
New York Times BiotechCongress should scrap a plan to grant biologic drugs 12 years of protection from generic competitors. The European Commission began a new push to allow farmers in Europe to grow more biotech crops, despite persistent public opposition to the technology. Though scientists hit a wall in their search, a Duke geneticist has ideas on how to renew the hunt.
The drugs being developed are monoclonal antibodies, which are engineered versions of proteins naturally made by the immune system. |
Medical News TodayNew research provides exciting insight into the molecular mechanisms associated with addiction and relapse. The study, published by Cell Press in the March 11 issue of the journal Neuron, uncovers a crucial mechanism that facilitates motivation for alcohol after extended abstinence and opens new avenues for potential therapeutic intervention... A Perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine calls for change in the way researchers and pharmaceutical companies collect and report adverse symptom information in clinical trials submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and how the FDA represents this information on drug labels... Researchers have new insight into the relationship between Parkinson's disease and smoking. Several studies have shown that smokers have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease... Patients who undergo gastric bypass surgery experience changes in their urine composition that increase their risk of developing kidney stones, research from UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators suggests... People whose "bad" cholesterol and risk of future heart disease stay too high despite cholesterol-lowering statin therapy can safely lower it by adding a drug that mimics the action of thyroid hormone. In a report published in the Mar... |
BBC Sci-TechCan the internet sway the result of the forthcoming general election? BBC election internet correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has been finding out. CCTV cameras that can pick out abandoned luggage, suspicious behaviour and lock onto potential suspects are being developed by UK researchers. The UN climate change panel's work is to be reviewed by science academies around the world, in plans announced by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Many aircraft which are too old or too expensive to run come to an airfield in Gloucestershire to be scrapped - and this is what happens to them. A plant-eating predator that preys on aggressive superweed Japanese knotweed is to be given a trial release in England. |
NatureNews BiotechnologyChemists looking to create complex self-assembling nanostructures are turning to DNA. Katharine Sanderson looks at the science beneath the fold. Following years of acrimony, two high-profile researchers in Mexico have been expelled from their institute. Intercontinental programme sets vision for frontier projects. Approval of the Amflora potato could signal a fresh approach to genetically modified organisms. The bold ambitions of one institute could make China the world leader in genome sequencing. David Cyranoski asks if its science will survive the industrial ramp-up. |
