|  Quantitative approaches provide new perspective on development of antibiotic resistance  | Using quantitative models of bacterial growth, a team biophysicists has discovered the bizarre way by which antibiotic resistance allows bacteria to multiply in the presence of antibiotics, a growing health problem in hospitals and nursing homes across the United States. | Read More » Follow your gut down the aisle, new study says  | Although newlyweds may not be completely aware of it, they may know whether their march down the aisle will result in wedded bliss or an unhappy marriage, according to new study. | Read More » Medal model predicts Winter Olympics leaders  | Sochi on the Black Sea coast in Russia will host the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games in 2014 which country will win what number of medals is open to debate. A study published suggests that the USA will win the most models followed by Germany and Canada and then Russia, with China arriving ninth. | Read More » Mutations in mantled howler provoked by disturbances in habitat  | 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. | Read More » Using moving cars to measure rainfall  | Drivers on a rainy day regulate the speed of their windshield wipers according to rain intensity: faster in heavy rain and slower in light rain. This simple observation has inspired researchers to come up with 'RainCars', an initiative that aims to use GPS-equipped moving cars as devices to measure rainfall. | Read More » EU fishing fleets reap profits while taxpayers foot the bill  | 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. | Read More » Pre-existing diabetes in pregnancy increases risk of fetal, infant death  | New research shows that pre-existing diabetes in pregnant women greatly increases the risk of death of their unborn fetus by around 4.5 times compared with pregnant women without diabetes, and also almost doubles the risk of death of infants after birth. | Read More » Crossing continents — where we drive affects how we drive  | According to the International Transport Forum, Malaysia has one of the highest death rates from road traffic accidents in the world. While the number of road deaths continues to rise in Malaysia the number in the United Kingdom is much lower and experiencing a downward trend. | Read More » Mobility explains association between social activity, mortality risk in older people  | Social activity and health correlate in old age, but less is known about what explains this association. The results of a study showed that part of the association between social activity and mortality was mediated by mobility among older men and women. Of other potential mediators, having less depressive symptoms and better cognitive functioning are merely prerequisites for social activity. | Read More » Eat crow if you think I'm a bird-brain  | 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. | Read More » Mediterranean diet without breakfast best choice for diabetics  | For patients with diabetes, it is better to eat a single large meal than several smaller meals throughout the day. This is the result of a current dietary study. | Read More » Scientists achieve most detailed picture ever of key part of hepatitis C virus  | 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. | Read More » High cholesterol fuels growth, spread of breast cancer  | A byproduct of cholesterol functions like the hormone estrogen to fuel the growth and spread of the most common types of breast cancers, researchers report. | Read More » Fruit flies with better sex lives live longer  | 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. | Read More » Pushing limits of light microscopy  | A team of researchers established a new microscopy technique which greatly enhances resolution in the third dimension. In a simple set-up, the scientists used the translation of position information of fluorescent markers into color information. Overcoming the need for scanning the depth of a sample, they were able to generate the precise 3D information at the same speed as it would take to acquire a 2D image. | Read More » Gene found responsible for susceptibility to panic disorder  | A study published points, for the first time, to the gene trkC as a factor in susceptibility to a panic disorder. The researchers define the specific mechanism for the formation of fear memories which will help in the development of new pharmacological and cognitive treatments. | Read More » Scientists stitch up photosynthetic megacomplex  | Scientists report on a new technique that allowed them to extract a photosynthetic megacomplex consisting of light antenna and two reaction centers from the membrane of a cynaobacterium. This is the first time an entire complex has been isolated and studied as a functioning whole. | Read More » Iron-based process promises greener, cheaper, safer drug, perfume production  | Researchers have developed a series of techniques to create a variety of very active iron-based catalysts necessary to produce the alcohols and amines used in the drug and perfume industry. The new synthetic methods promise to be safer and more economical and environmentally friendly than traditional industrial processes. | Read More » Memories 'geotagged' with spatial information  | Using a video game in which people navigate through a town delivering objects, a team of neuroscientists has discovered how brain cells that encode spatial information form "geotags" for specific memories and are activated immediately before those memories are recalled. Their work shows how spatial information is incorporated into memories and why remembering an experience can bring to mind other events that happened in the same place. | Read More » Researchers find missing component in effort to create primitive, synthetic cells  | 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. | Read More » Study suggests why, in some species, mere presence of males shortens females' lifespan  | Researchers have discovered that males of the laboratory roundworm secrete signaling molecules that significantly shorten the lifespan of the opposite sex. | Read More » Snapshots differentiate molecules from their mirror image  | Researchers are able to reveal the spatial structure of chiral molecules from work done to develop a method that takes a snapshot of chiral molecules, revealing their spatial atomic structure. The molecule's handedness, or chirality, can be directly derived from this information. | Read More » Bone grafting improvements with help of sea coral  | Sea coral could soon be used more extensively in bone grafting procedures thanks to new research that has refined the material's properties and made it more compatible with natural bone. | Read More » Mitochondria separate their waste  | Cellular power plants collect and break down damaged molecules in order to protect themselves from harmful substances, research shows. Up to now, it was unclear whether this housekeeping work involves sorting out defective proteins when they digest mitochondria. Researchers have now discovered that the proteins are sorted out during the constant fusion and fission of mitochondria. | Read More » Telescope to track space junk using youth radio station  | A combination of pop songs, talkback radio and cutting-edge science has enabled Australian astronomers to identify a way to prevent catastrophic, multi-billion dollar space junk collisions, a new study has revealed. | Read More » Food fight or exercise attack?  | Experts offer two ways to battle the holiday bulge. | Read More » Mother-to-child HIV transmission in Gipuzkoa reduced significantly over last 25 years  | The evolution that took place between 1984 and 2011 in paediatric HIV infection in Gipuzkoa has been studied. The development of methods to diagnose the disease coupled with increasingly more effective treatments have made it possible to reduce mother-to-child transmission (vertical transmission) from 23.9% to 2.4%, thus virtually eradicating infection in children. | Read More » Controversy over use of Roman ingots to investigate dark matter, neutrinos  | The properties of lead bricks recovered from ancient shipwrecks are ideal for experiments in particle physics. Scientists have begun to use them, but archaeologists have raised alarm about the destruction and trading of cultural heritage that lies behind this. | Read More » The more the better: Polyandry in salamanders  | New research shows the impact of polyandry on reproductive success in fire salamanders. | Read More » | |
