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(02/01/12 5:00am)
A family of proteins related to prions may play a critical role in the formation of memories, according to research from the Stowers Institute for Medicine. This family of proteins, called cytoplasmic polyadenylation element-binding proteins (CPEBs), forms chains between neurons in the brain that are critical for long-term memories.
(11/30/11 5:00am)
Imagine a doctor driven mad with the desire for recognition and grant money, to the point where innocent lives are merely the cost of what he sees as the greater good of his research. When you pick up D.M. Annechino's Resuscitation, you will meet one of the most peculiar serial killers with the strangest of motives and methods to his madness.
(11/09/11 5:00am)
Those of you who have been in any sort of alcohol-related setting have probably seen at least one of your fellow students, most likely of Asian descent, taking on a fairly red complexion after as little as one drink. Maybe you are one of those drinkers who turns that rather embarrassing color and experiences a general feeling of warmth in the skin around their body, followed by some level of exhaustion and other unpleasant sensations such as an elevated heartrate.
(11/09/11 5:00am)
Spectroscopy reveals how Oxygen harms hydrogenases
(11/07/11 5:00am)
Cells have elaborate machinery in place to produce proteins, starting from the transcription of genes that encode a protein to the ribosomes that piece the protein together. Like many systems in nature, this can result in errors from time to time. Mechanisms that protect against these errors are still being studied, and recent research has shed some light onto a component of this system in bacteria.
(10/19/11 5:00am)
Touching upon elements of his life to inspire attendees, Cory Booker, the current mayor of the city of Newark, addressed a diverse audience this past Saturday in Shriver Hall as the third speaker in the 2011 MSE Symposium Series. The evening's event was cosponsored by the Provost's Lecture Series.
(10/05/11 5:00am)
As of Wednesday, the Nobel Prize committee has announced the recipients for three of the Nobel Prizes, with Literature Prize due to be announced today, the Peace Prize on Friday and the Economic Sciences Prize on Monday.
(10/05/11 5:00am)
With all of the attention and excitement that the Nobel Prize announcements this week have attracted, a smaller celebration of science honored some intriguing and fairly humorous work. Recognizing work that may never win recognition from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Ig Nobel Prizes demonstrate the lighter side of science and academia.
(09/28/11 5:00am)
The work from the University of Washington demonstrates the power that modern computer simulations have in overcoming some potential shortcomings in regular methods of solving a protein's structure. Through the sophistication of a program such as Foldit, combined with the crowd-sourcing power of the Internet, the hunt for protein structures now has a new tool with ever-growing effectiveness and potential reliability.
(09/28/11 5:00am)
Va. bans blue crab dredging in Chesapeake Bay for winter
(09/14/11 5:00am)
La Niña likely to affect upcoming weather
(09/07/11 5:00am)
Among many of the snapshots it has collected, a specific set of pictures from the Hubble telescope taken over a span of 14 years has allowed a team of scientists, led by Patrick Hartigan of Rice University, to get an extraordinary view of a star's birth. Pieced together, these images allowed scientists to view this particular event surrounding the formation of a new star, a magnificent stellar display, as a time-lapse movie. Their work is published in the July 20 issue of The Astrophysical Journal.
(04/28/11 6:51pm)
Different cells in your body only need certain genes in your genetic code to be active, keeping certain genes silent through a process called methylation and activating them through a process called demethylation. Until recently, the mechanistic processes behind demethylation were unclear, and the components of this crucial action were not known.
(04/21/11 5:52pm)
Supermassive black holes at the heart of almost every galaxy exert a great gravitational force that holds the galaxy together. Occasionally, an unfortunate star winds up wandering too close to the black hole and is ripped apart, producing stellar displays of intense light and high energy radiation.
(04/14/11 7:52pm)
There may very well be a new elementary particle to add to our current understanding of particle physics.
(04/14/11 4:46pm)
If there is any one particular source of unease currently shared by many of the research labs here at Hopkins, it is the event of a shutdown of the federal government. Among the agencies that would be affected is the National Institutes of Health, a major source of funding for many of Hopkins’s research labs, graduate students and post-doctorate fellows.
(03/31/11 4:09pm)
It happens to all of us when we spend too much time in the shower, washing dishes, swimming or perhaps washing our hands (for those of us who are a little obsessive). Fingers get very wrinkled and pruney from water penetrating the surface of our skin.
(03/17/11 5:34pm)
Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have found that newly born mice can regenerate damaged heart muscle, a process that requires extensive modification of certain subunits in the heart but results in full recovery and normal development of heart muscle.
(02/25/11 2:35am)
Take a close look at any one of your two feet. Note the arch that spans the middle of your foot. Formed by curves in your metatarsus bones, the arch is one of the defining features of the human foot.
(02/18/11 1:55am)
Researchers at Hopkins have designed a new, potentially safer method of generating pluripotent stem cells from blood cells.