[Metallurgy] Heavy hydrogen gets frozen in place
Hydrogen embrittlement contributes to the failure of steel in a wide variety of everyday applications. Various strategies to mitigate hydrogen embrittlement, such as adding carbides – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - March 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Brent Grocholski Tags: Metallurgy Source Type: research
[Physiology] Uridine's rise and fall: Food for thought
The nucleoside uridine is well known for its role in critical cellular functions such as nucleic acid synthesis. Its role in whole-animal physiology has received comparatively little – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - March 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Paula A. Kiberstis Tags: Physiology Source Type: research
[Neurodevelopment] The lights go on in order
Grid cells and place cells in the brain function as part of a circuit that helps us figure out where we are in our physical world. Donato et al. examined how that circuit develops – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - March 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Pamela J. Hines Tags: Neurodevelopment Source Type: research
[Wearable Technology] Sensing touch without touching
Electronic devices that can be integrated into clothing or worn on skin will provide wearable approaches for monitoring human health or motion. Success depends on the development of – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - March 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Lynden Archer Tags: Wearable Technology Source Type: research
[Infection] The parasite of my parasite is my friend?
Virulence factors of pathogenic bacteria can be swapped by means of bacterial viruses called phages. In turn, the pathogenic bacteria are under attack by the hosts' immune responses. – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - March 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Caroline Ash Tags: Infection Source Type: research
[Diagnostics] Finding the right blood type
Blood type matching is important for pregnancy, blood transfusion, and bone marrow
transplantation. Zhang et al. developed a blood typing assay based – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - March 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Caitlin Czajka Tags: Diagnostics Source Type: research
[Antibiotics] Countering TB prodrug resistance
The arsenal of antibiotics for treating tuberculosis (TB) contains many prodrugs, such as ethionamide, which need activation by normal metabolism to release their toxic effects. Ethionamide – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - March 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Caroline Ash Tags: Antibiotics Source Type: research
[Nanophotonics] Putting plasmons in a spin
The ability of light to carry angular momentum provides an additional degree of freedom for applications such as optical tweezing and optical communication. Spektor et al. – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - March 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Ian S. Osborne Tags: Nanophotonics Source Type: research
[Geochemistry] Archean cratons get a Hadean mash-up
The vast majority of the rock record over Earth's 4.6-billion-year history has been destroyed through subduction and recycling back into the mantle. Although some slivers of 4-billion-year-old – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - March 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Brent Grocholski Tags: Geochemistry Source Type: research
[Nanomaterials] Lifting off gold films
A method for growing and removing single-crystal gold films can be used to create a flexible and transparent substrate for devices. Mahenderkar et al. grew gold films on the – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - March 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Phil Szuromi Tags: Nanomaterials Source Type: research
[Circadian Rhythms] Molecular clockwork from cyanobacteria
The cyanobacterial circadian clock oscillator can be reconstituted in a test tube from just three proteins—KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC—and adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Tseng et al. stu – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - March 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: L. Bryan Ray Tags: Circadian Rhythms Source Type: research
[Plant Science] Making more of your stomata
Stomata on grasses are made up of two guard cells and two subsidiary cells, and they perform better than stomata on broad-leaved plants, which are made up only of two guard cells. Raissig – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - March 15, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Pamela J. Hines Tags: Plant Science Source Type: research
[Gene Regulation] Polycomb group gene silencing
Histone proteins wrap around DNA to form nucleosomes that package metazoan DNA into the nucleus. Chromatin compaction is also believed to be critical for the repression of homeotic – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - March 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Beverly A. Purnell Tags: Gene Regulation Source Type: research
[Immunogenomics] PHDs crack the histone code
Epigenetic readers are proteins that recognize histone modifications and facilitate histone code–based transcriptional programming. Bromodomain- and plant homeodomain (PHD)–containing pro – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - March 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Anand Balasubramani Tags: Immunogenomics Source Type: research
[Scientific Community] Academic merit through a social filter
Scientists prefer to evaluate achievements based on merit alone. But, when it comes to academic advancement, factors other than merit play important roles. In a Perspective, Xie highlights – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - March 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Julia Fahrenkamp-Uppenbrink Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: research
