[Optoelectronics] Multifunctional displays
As we head toward the “Internet of things” in which everything is integrated and connected, we need to develop the multifunctional technology that will make this happen. Oh et al. – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - February 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Ian S. Osborne Tags: Optoelectronics Source Type: research
[Statistics] Misconceptions about measurement error
When they get a measurable effect in a noisy study, many researchers assume that the effect would have been even stronger in the absence of noise. But, as Loken and Gelman explain in – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - February 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Julia Fahrenkamp-Uppenbrink Tags: Statistics Source Type: research
[Chemical Biology] Targeting proteins at the other sulfur
As the only amino acid with a thiol (SH) group, cysteine is easily targeted for site-selective protein modifications. Hydrophobic methionine also has sulfur in its side chain, but its – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - February 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Jake Yeston Tags: Chemical Biology Source Type: research
[Microbiota] Chemically guided functional profiling
The big challenge posed by the microbiota living in or on humans is working out what they do for us. Microorganisms generate large quantities of peptides and proteins that may have – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - February 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Caroline Ash Tags: Microbiota Source Type: research
[Many-Body Physics] Machine learning and quantum physics
Elucidating the behavior of quantum interacting systems of many particles remains one of the biggest challenges in physics. Traditional numerical methods often work well, but some of – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - February 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Jelena Stajic Tags: Many-Body Physics Source Type: research
[Cell Fate] Limiting potential for totipotency
Biological roles for microRNAs are not limited to RNA silencing and posttranscriptional regulation; they have now been shown to also regulate cell pluripotency. Choi et al. – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - February 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Beverly A. Purnell Tags: Cell Fate Source Type: research
[Biophysics] Superresolution imaging in sharper focus
An optical microscope cannot distinguish objects separated by less than half the wavelength of light. Superresolution techniques have broken this “diffraction limit” and provided exc – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - February 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Valda Vinson Tags: Biophysics Source Type: research
[Conservation] Looking back to move forward
The current impacts of humanity on nature are rapid and destructive, but species turnover and change have occurred throughout the history of life. Although there is much debate about – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - February 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Sacha Vignieri Tags: Conservation Source Type: research
[Autophagy] Change for good
In the immune system, autophagy has been implicated in the maintenance and survival of plasma and memory cells, but its role in B cells during early viral infection remains unclear. – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - February 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Stella M. Hurtley Tags: Autophagy Source Type: research
[Cardiovascular Disease] A radical idea for blood pressure control
Hypertension (high blood pressure) is very common, especially in older adults, and it contributes to a number of other cardiovascular disorders. Although a variety of therapeutic interventions – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - February 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Yevgeniya Nusinovich Tags: Cardiovascular Disease Source Type: research
[Telomeres] A protein to trim too-long telomeres
Telomeres cap the ends of linear eukaryotic chromosomes. They consist of multiple copies of short DNA repeats. The length of telomeres is important to genome stability; if they become – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - February 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Guy Riddihough Tags: Telomeres Source Type: research
[Quantum Entanglement] Transitional approach to entanglement
In an entangled many-particle system, changing the state of one constituent affects the rest of the system. This property can be used as a resource in quantum information processing, – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - February 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Jelena Stajic Tags: Quantum Entanglement Source Type: research
[Infectious Disease] Starving the pathogen
Actively killing pathogens is an important function of the immune response; equally important is limiting nutrient availability to the pathogen, a process known as nutritional immunity. – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - February 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Anand Balasubramani Tags: Infectious Disease Source Type: research
[Vascular Biology] A target for intracranial aneurysms
Surgery is the only therapeutic option currently available for intracranial aneurysms. Aoki et al. delineated a selfamplifying signaling pathway in macrophages that could be – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - February 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Wei Wong Tags: Vascular Biology Source Type: research
[Neuroscience] Intraneuronal control of protein expression
In cells and tissues, mRNA copy numbers far exceed the number of micro RNAs (miRNAs). How then can a miRNA effectively regulate translation of a particular target mRNA? Sambandan et – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - February 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Stella M. Hurtley Tags: Neuroscience Source Type: research
