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Protein enables discovery of quantum effect in photosynthesis

... lives in extremely high temperatures, enabled the researches to discover that quantum mechanical effects appear to play a role in photosynthesis. The taco shell protein is arguably the most studied and understood protein in a complex photosynthesis researchers refer to as the antenna system, molecules that...

Studies yield insight into the numerical brain

...and their concrete representations as symbols. The researches said their findings will contribute to understanding how the brain processes quantitative information as well as lead to studies of how numerical representation in the brain develops in children. Such studies could aid in rehabilitating people who su...

Older men treated for early prostate cancer live longer than those who are not

...but a retrospective analysis of existing data, the researches had to perform extensive statistical adjustments to account for study participants differences. Even with all these differences taken into account, there was still a significant improvement in the overall survival of those men who received active tre...

Mystery solved: Gold's power against autoimmune diseases defined

...ngthening this connection. These findings now give researches a mechanism of gold drug action that can be tested and explored directly in diseased tissues. In 1890, a German doctor named Robert Koch found that gold effectively killed the bacteria that caused tuberculosis. In the 1930s, based on a widely held...

Past experience of pheromones induces dominant courtship behavior in fruit flies

...es during the early encounter. To prove this, the researches used mutant flies that lack the normal adult pheromones, and they covered these pheromone-defective flies with a variety of other smells. The researchers were able to demonstrate that a male shows courtship dominance behavior over young males if he h...

Researchers discover key to human embryonic stem-cell potential

... is forever lost. But if stem cells are extracted, researches can keep them in this pluripotent state indefinitely, preserving them as a kind of cellular blank slate. The therapeutic goal then is to take these blank slates and coax them into, say, liver or brain tissue. But in order to guide them out of pluripo...

Discovery of an American salamander where it shouldn't be: Korea

...new salamander and other plethodontids. All these researches are coauthors of the current Nature paper, though Karsen elected not to join them in order to accept their offer to name it after him. To date, Wake and his American colleagues have seen only one live specimen and a few preserved specimens, though V...

Researchers reveal the infectious impact of salmon farms on wild salmon

...n, an epidemiologist from Princeton University who researches infectious diseases in wildlife. "We're seeing similar effects in Scotland, Norway, and Ireland; in each area parasite amplification on fish farms seems to increase disease levels in the local fish community. However previous studies have not shown n...

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