A new research center based at the University of Glasgow is setting out to develop the ‘cognitive’ cities of the future which will revolutionize urban life. The Centre for Integrated Sensing and Communication Enabling Cognitive…
Ribosome Recycling as a Drug Target
LMU researchers have elucidated a mechanism that recycles bacterial ribosomes stalled on messenger RNAs that lack termination codons.The protein involved provides a potential target for future antibiotics. So-called multidrug-resistant bacteria – strains that have become…
One Gene Mutation & 2 Diseases Create Insights…
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes linked a single gene mutation to two types of heart disease: one causes a hole in the heart of infants, and the other causes heart failure. Using cells donated by…
Routine Blood Test Predicts How Long Cancer Patients…
A routine blood test can predict how long cancer patients in palliative care will survive, researchers report at the ESMO Asia 2016 Congress in Singapore. "Cancer patients in palliative care want honest and accurate prognostic…
Silicon pore optics stacks
[caption id="attachment_11050" align="alignright" width="200"] Credit: cosine[/caption] Stacks of carefully polished, coated and cut silicon wafers – normally used to manufacture integrated circuits – that will focus X-rays inside ESA’s Athena space observatory, due for launch…