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New silicon-germanium nanowires could lead to smaller, more powerful electronic devices
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Contact: Wileen Wong Kromhout wwkromhout@support.ucla.edu 310-206-0540 University of California – Los Angeles Microchip manufacturers have long faced challenges miniaturizing transistors, the key active components in nearly every modern electronic device, which are used to amplify or switch electronic signals. Now, resea…
MSU research may lead to new ways to control honeybee parasite
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Contact: Jamie DePolo depolo@msu.edu 609-354-8403 Michigan State University Findings open doors for more effective controls EAST LANSING, Mich. – Ground-breaking discoveries by Michigan State University researchers could help protect honeybees from deadly parasites that have devastated commercial colonies. Th…
Entropy alone creates complex crystals from simple shapes, study shows
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Contact: Nicole Casal Moore, ncmoore@umich.edu 734-647-1838 University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich.—- In a study that elevates the role of entropy in creating order, research led by the University of Michigan shows that certain pyramid shapes can spontaneously organize into complex quasicrystals. A quasicrystal is a solid whose componen…
Scripps Research team uncovers chemical basis for extra ‘quality control’ in protein production
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Contact: Keith McKeown kmckeown@scripps.edu 858-784-8134 Scripps Research Institute Nature's solution to age-old chemical paradox provides clues to health and disease LA JOLLA, CA – December 9, 2009 – Even small errors made by cells during protein production can have profound disease effects, and nature has de…
With Amino Acid Diet, Mice Improve After Brain Injury
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- May Set Stage for Treating Brain Damage in People – PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Neurology researchers have shown that feeding amino acids to brain-injured animals restores their cognitive abilities and may set the stage for the first effective treatment for cognitive impairments suffered by people with traumatic brain injuries. “We have shown in an animal model that dietary intervention can restore a proper balance of neurochemicals in th…