A team of Korean researchers established an energy efficient dry reforming process using a rotating arc plasma to produce synthesis gas.
Life Science
Bobcat Deaths: The New Canary in the Coalmine
An epidemic of mange-related deaths in Bobcats severe enough to cause a genetic bottleneck is traced to anticoagulant agents in rodent poison.
Hfq brings Speed Dating to Bacterial sRNA
The chaperone Hfq speeds up match-making between small regulatory RNA and mRNA in bacteria, helping bacteria respond to stress or changed growth conditions.
Studying Autophagic Lysosome Reformation
Imaging and analysis of Autophagic Lysosome Reformation.
Alzheimer’s Disease and Beets?
Betanin may help slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
Imaging Biological Filament Systems
In their review in BioEssays, David Popp et al. discuss how recent advances in structural biology have provided new insights into biological filament systems.
What Goes On in a Stressed Brain?
Important implications for the development of therapeutics, and several potential pharmacological targets for the treatment of stress‐related disorders have been identified.
The Little Ice Age: Climate and Society in the 15th through 18th Centuries
Scholars in different fields have contrasted the fates of societies or communities that were “vulnerable” to climate change with those that seem to have been “resilient” or even consciously or unconsciously adaptive in the face of the Little Ice Age.
Sampling from Single Living Cells
Nanoprobe-based methods can sample the content of a single living cell without affecting its viability.
Genetic Variants in mRNA Untranslated Regions
Discussing the mechanisms of UTR regulation, the role of genetic variants in modulating RNA processing, and protein production in human disease.
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