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[s.l.] : Macmillan Magazines Ltd. Published 2001Staff ViewISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] Sydney Australian scientists have reacted ambivalently to the conservative government's plan to inject new funding into research. A dozen programmes would be started or expanded under a plan released late last year by Robin Batterham, the government's chief scientist. He ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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ISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] The technological utility of enzymes can be enhanced greatly by using them in organic solvents rather than their natural aqueous reaction media. Studies over the past 15 years have revealed not only that this change in solvent is feasible, but also that in such seemingly hostile environments ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
3Articles: DFG German National LicensesSchmid, A. ; Dordick, J. S. ; Hauer, B. ; Kiener, A. ; Wubbolts, M. ; Witholt, B.
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Published 2001Staff ViewISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] The use of biocatalysis for industrial synthetic chemistry is on the verge of significant growth. Biocatalytic processes can now be carried out in organic solvents as well as aqueous environments, so that apolar organic compounds as well as water-soluble compounds can be modified selectively and ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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[s.l.] : Macmillan Magazines Ltd. Published 2001Staff ViewISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] London British cancer researchers could find themselves with a major new research organization, loosely modelled on the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), after the country's two main cancer charities meet this month to consider a merger. ...The trustees from ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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[s.l.] : Macmillan Magazines Ltd. Published 2001Staff ViewISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] Emboldened by their growing success at using computer models to predict protein structures, computational structural biologists have put out a community-wide call to find the “Ten Most Wanted” proteins whose structures they will try to solve. The plan to offer modelling services to ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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ISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] ...We can blame Georg Bednorz and Alex Müller. Fifteen years ago, physicists thought they understood superconductivity — the tendency of some materials to conduct current with zero resistance at temperatures of around 10 to 20 kelvin. But in 1986, working at the IBM Research ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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[s.l.] : Macmillan Magazines Ltd. Published 2001Staff ViewISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] The credo of 'artificial life' (ALife) aficionados is that life is about function, not form. Or, put another way, what separates the living from the dead is not a matter of matter but resides in patterns of information. Here on Earth, these patterns of information happen to manifest themselves ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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[s.l.] : Macmillan Magazines Ltd. Published 2001Staff ViewISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] ...I doubt that many Regius professors and Fellows of the Royal Society today have had to interrupt their academic career to earn their living as a shopkeeper. This necessity fell to Arthur Holmes, one of twentieth-century Britain's foremost geologists. And although such mundane ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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[s.l.] : Macmillan Magazines Ltd. Published 2001Staff ViewISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] New Delhi Wealthy Indian entrepreneurs based in New York are planning to invest up to $1 billion to establish six “world class” private research universities across India. ...Although similar proposals have been resisted in the past as a potential threat to ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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ISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] There are three groups of living mammals — placentals, marsupials and the monotremes. The first two, along with some mammalian fossil relatives, have so-called 'tribosphenic' teeth, which provide a highly efficient way of chopping and grinding food. Monotreme ancestors are also thought to ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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ISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] Sir In his review of Clark Spencer Larsen's book Skeletons in Our Closet: Revealing the Past through Bioarchaeology, Christopher Wills concludes that “overall health was reduced by . . . the introduction of agriculture”. He notes that there is little evidence ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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[s.l.] : Macmillan Magazines Ltd. Published 2001Staff ViewISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] The limits of human endurance have been the theme of many books, plays, dramas and the visual arts, as well as providing a living laboratory for psychology researchers and scientists. The worst of these situations is warfare, as it involves not just extreme physical stress, but also an ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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ISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] One of the success stories of twentieth-century astronomy was the development of a physical understanding of the nature, evolution and death of stars — replacing thousands of years of mystical speculation with firm knowledge. But one piece of the puzzle is still missing: how stars are ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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ISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] When did the Earth's continents and oceans first form? On pages 175 and 178 of this issue, Wilde et al. and Mojzsis et al. address the question with reports of uranium–lead (U–Pb) ages and oxygen isotopic compositions of extremely old zircon grains. ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
15Articles: DFG German National LicensesLee, Jae Sung ; Oh, Seung Ha ; Kim, Seok-Ki ; Kim, Jeung-Whoon ; Chung, June-Key ; Lee, Myung Chul ; Kim, Chong Sun ; Lee, Dong Soo
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Published 2001Staff ViewISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] Hearing in profoundly deaf people can be helped by inserting an implant into the inner ear to stimulate the cochlear nerve. This also boosts the low metabolic activity of the auditory cortex, the region of the brain normally used for hearing. Other sensory modalities, such as sign ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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ISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] Enzymes are the subset of proteins that catalyse the chemistry of life, transforming both macromolecular substrates and small molecules. The precise three-dimensional architecture of enzymes permits almost unerring selectivity in physical and chemical steps to impose remarkable rate ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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[s.l.] : Macmillan Magazines Ltd. Published 2000Staff ViewISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] ...Italy's National Research Council (CNR) is this week breaking from its much-criticized practice of filling key posts from within its ranks, and is advertising internationally for scientists to head some of its institutes. The positions are the first to arise under a reorganization that will ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
18Articles: DFG German National LicensesÖsterblad, Monica ; Norrdahl, Kai ; Korpimäki, Erkki ; Huovinen, Pentti
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Published 2001Staff ViewISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] In bacteria associated with humans, antimicrobial resistance is common, both in clinical isolates and in the less-studied commensal flora, and it is thought that commensal and environmental bacteria might be a hidden reservoir of resistance. Gilliver et al. have reported that resistance is ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
19Articles: DFG German National LicensesPalethorpe, Sallyanne ; Watson, Catherine I. ; Harrington, Jonathan
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Published 2000Staff ViewISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] The pronunciation of all languages changes subtly over time, mainly owing to the younger members of the community. What is unknown is whether older members unwittingly adapt their accent towards community changes. Here we analyse vowel sounds from the annual Christmas ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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[s.l.] : Macmillan Magazines Ltd. Published 2000Staff ViewISSN: 1476-4687Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsNotes: [Auszug] ...Plants can't run away from trouble and have developed sophisticated chemical defences instead. Maize, for example, releases a cocktail of volatile indole and terpenoid compounds when attacked by the beet armyworm caterpillar (Spodoptera exigua, pictured). These compounds attract a parasitic ...Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: