The prospects of american strawberries
A comprehensive review led by Jayesh Samtani of Virginia Tech and Curt Rom of the University of Arkansas encapsulates an understanding of the challenges, needs, and opportunities of strawberry growers across the United States. Samtani and Rom formed and gathered support from a team of 12 researchers from 10 different states as they embarked on an academic journey designed to generate an effective guideline essential for research, policy, and marketing strategies for the strawberry industry across the country, and to enable the development of general and region-specific educational and production tools. …read more
Source:: Physorg Latest
Study shows hope for fighting disease known as Ebola of frogs
Despite widespread infection, some frog populations are surviving a deadly disease that is the equivalent of mankind’s Ebola virus. The reason —genetic diversity. …read more
Source:: Physorg Latest
NASA catches Tropical Cyclone Gelena’s post-tropical transition
Tropical cyclones can become post-tropical before they dissipate, meaning they can become sub-tropical, extra-tropical or a remnant low pressure area. As Tropical Cyclone Gelena transitioned into a subtropical storm, NASA’s Aqua satellite provided a visible image of the storm. …read more
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Genetic vulnerability to menthol cigarette use
A genetic variant found only in people of African descent significantly increases a smoker’s preference for cigarettes containing menthol, a flavor additive. The variant of the MRGPRX4 gene is five to eight times more frequent among smokers who use menthol cigarettes than other smokers. The multi-ethnic study is the first to look across all genes to identify genetic vulnerability to menthol cigarettes. …read more
Source:: Sciencedaily
Drug to rejuvenate muscle cells
Researchers have developed a promising drug that has proven to significantly increase muscle size, strength and metabolic state in aged mice, according to a new study. …read more
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Open-science model for drug discovery expands to neurodegenerative diseases
Parkinson’s disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis are the newest frontiers for open science drug discovery, a global movement led by academic scientists that puts knowledge sharing and medication affordability ahead of patents and profits. …read more
Source:: Sciencedaily
Hope for fighting disease known as Ebola of frogs
Despite widespread infection, some frog populations are surviving a deadly disease that is the equivalent of humankind’s Ebola virus. The reason — genetic diversity. …read more
Source:: Sciencedaily
The prospects of American strawberries
Researchers have embarked on an academic journey designed to generate an effective guideline essential for research, policy, and marketing strategies for the strawberry industry across the country, and to enable the development of general and region-specific educational and production tools. …read more
Source:: Sciencedaily
The chiral trimer and a metastable chiral dimer of achiral hexafluoroisopropanol: A multi‐messenger study
1,1,1,3,3,3‐hexafluoro‐propan‐2‐ol aggregates preferentially into an achiral dimer of achiral monomers, but the trimer is found to prefer three metastable chiral monomer units arranged into a strained OH‐O hydrogen‐bonded ring which is reinforced by secondary CH‐FC interactions. This is shown by a combination of infrared, microwave and Raman spectroscopy in supersonic jet expansions and supported by high level quantum chemical calculations. It involves an activation of the monomers by >15 kJ mol‐1, clearly driven by the much stronger hydrogen bond interaction available to the gauche and even more to the cis monomer units.
Source:: Angewandte Chemie Int. edition
Space junk harpooned like whale in orbit-cleanup test
A harpoon flung from a satellite has successfully captured a piece of pretend space junk, like a whale. …read more
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