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- Researchers find missing component in effort to create primitive, synthetic cells
- Scientists achieve most detailed picture ever of key part of hepatitis C virus
- Fruit flies with better sex lives live longer
- Eat crow if you think I'm a bird-brain
- Mutations in mantled howler provoked by disturbances in habitat
- EU fishing fleets reap profits while taxpayers foot the bill
- Destroying greenhouse gases in environmentally-friendly way
| Researchers find missing component in effort to create primitive, synthetic cells Posted: 28 Nov 2013 11:14 AM PST A team of investigators working to create "protocells" -- primitive synthetic cells consisting of a nucleic acid strand encased within a membrane-bound compartment -- have found a solution to what could have been a critical problem, the potential incompatibility between a chemical requirement of RNA copying and the stability of the protocell membrane.  |
| Scientists achieve most detailed picture ever of key part of hepatitis C virus Posted: 28 Nov 2013 11:13 AM PST Scientists have determined the most detailed picture yet of a crucial part of the hepatitis C virus, which the virus uses to infect liver cells. The new data reveal unexpected structural features of this protein.  |
| Fruit flies with better sex lives live longer Posted: 28 Nov 2013 11:12 AM PST Sex may in fact be one of the secrets to good health, youth and a longer life – at least for fruit flies – suggests a new study. Sexually frustrated fruit flies in this lab lived shorter lives.  |
| Eat crow if you think I'm a bird-brain Posted: 28 Nov 2013 07:38 AM PST Scientists have long suspected that corvids – the family of birds including ravens, crows and magpies – are highly intelligent. Now, neurobiologists have demonstrated how the brains of crows produce intelligent behavior when the birds have to make strategic decisions.  |
| Mutations in mantled howler provoked by disturbances in habitat Posted: 28 Nov 2013 07:38 AM PST The disturbances of the habitat could be affecting the populations of the mantled howler, or golden-mantled howling monkey, (Alouatta palliate Mexicana) who in an extreme case could be developing mutations that make them less resistant to diseases and climate events.  |
| EU fishing fleets reap profits while taxpayers foot the bill Posted: 27 Nov 2013 07:54 PM PST The European Union's taxpayers are paving the way for fishing fleets to reel in valuable catch in developing countries while fishing companies pocket the profits, according to researchers.  |
| Destroying greenhouse gases in environmentally-friendly way Posted: 27 Nov 2013 08:03 AM PST Researchers have developed a new catalyst for the "activation" of carbon-fluorine bonds. This process has many industrial applications, among which stands out the possibility to be used to reduce existing stocks of CFCs (chloro-fluoro-carbonated compounds), known as "greenhouse gases". CFCs experienced a huge boom in the 80s, but later they were found to destroy the ozone layer because of their photochemical decomposition when they reached the upper layers of the atmosphere.  |
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