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Cinnamon Compound Has Potential Ability to Prevent Alzheimer's
May 23, 2013 — Cinnamon: Can the red-brown spice with the unmistakable fragrance and variety of uses offer an important benefit? The common baking spice might hold the key to delaying the onset of -- or warding off ... > full story -
Biophysicists Measure Mechanism That Determines Fate of Living Cells
May 23, 2013 — For the first time, biophysicists have measured the molecular force required to mechanically transmit function-regulating signals within a cell. A new laboratory method, named the tension gauge ... > full story -
Tomatoes: The World's Favorite Fruit, Only Better-Tasting and Longer-Lasting
May 23, 2013 — Research with GM purple tomatoes could lead to improved varieties of tomatoes with consumer and commercial benefits through conventional breeding or GM. The findings could also be applied to other ... > full story -
New Target to Boost Plant Resistance to Insects and Pathogens Identified
May 23, 2013 — Plants have evolved unique and sophisticated immune systems to defend themselves against insects and pathogens. Plant hormones called jasmonates play an important role in this defense, but jasmonates ... > full story -
White Tiger Mystery Solved: Coat Color Produced by Single Change in Pigment Gene
May 23, 2013 — White tigers today are only seen in zoos, but they belong in nature, say researchers reporting new evidence about what makes those tigers white. Their spectacular white coats are produced by a single ... > full story -
Bittersweet: Bait-Averse Cockroaches Shudder at Sugar
May 23, 2013 — Sugar isn't always sweet to German cockroaches. In a new study, researchers show that glucose sets off bitter receptors in roach taste buds, causing roaches to avoid foods that bring on this ... > full story -
Bacterium from Canadian High Arctic Offers Clues to Possible Life on Mars
May 23, 2013 — The recent discovery of a bacterium that is able to thrive at minus 15 degrees Celsius, the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth, is exciting because it offers clues about some of ... > full story -
New Discovery in Fight Against Deadly Meningococcal Disease: Understanding the Pathway of How the Bacterium Colonizes People
May 23, 2013 — Neisseria meningitidis is an important human pathogen that can cause rapidly progressing, life threatening meningitis and meningococcal sepsis in humans, according to authors of a new study. People ... > full story -
Chemists Find New Compounds to Curb Staph Infection
May 23, 2013 — In an age when microbial pathogens are growing increasingly resistant to the conventional antibiotics used to tamp down infection, scientists have synthesized a potent new class of compounds capable ... > full story -
Biochemistry: Unspooling DNA from Nucleosomal Disks
May 23, 2013 — The tight wrapping of genomic DNA around nucleosomes in the cell nucleus makes it unavailable for gene expression. This study describes a mechanism that allows chromosomal DNA to be locally displaced ... > full story
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