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Public Release: 21-Mar-2013
 Journal of Biological ChemistryScientists reveal quirky feature of Lyme disease bacteria Scientists have confirmed that the pathogen that causes Lyme disease -- unlike any other known organism -- can exist without iron, a metal that all other life needs to make proteins and enzymes. Instead of iron, the bacteria substitute manganese to make an essential enzyme, thus eluding immune system defenses that protect the body by starving pathogens of iron. 
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Contact: Media Relations Office
Public Release: 21-Mar-2013
OrganometallicsBreakthrough could lead to cheaper, more sustainable chemical production A new advance could enable the production of an important commodity chemical using CO2 as a carbon source instead of petroleum. CO2 is basically free, and something the planet currently has in excess. Activating CO2 for the production of commodity chemicals could be a way make them more cheaply and sustainably.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kevin Stacey
Public Release: 21-Mar-2013
Academy scientists receive top honors for long-term research and training initiatives in Mongolia Dr. Clyde Goulden, a pioneering ecologist and director of the Asia Center of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, has received Mongolia's highest award to foreigners, the Order of the Polar Star. The Academy's Dr. Jon Gelhaus received the Khubilai Khan gold medal, the highest award from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Carolyn Belardo
Public Release: 21-Mar-2013
NatureGlobal nitrogen availability consistent for past 500 years, linked to carbon levels Despite humans increasing nitrogen production through industrialization, nitrogen availability in many ecosystems has remained steady for the past 500 years.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kendra McLauchlan
Public Release: 21-Mar-2013
Scientific ReportsDo I know you? Memory patterns help us recall the social webs we weave, finds new Cornell study With a dizzying number of ties in our social networks -- that your Aunt Alice is a neighbor of Muhammad who is married to Natasha who is your wife's boss -- it's a wonder we remember any of it. How do we keep track of the complexity? Humans keep track of social information not by rote memorization but with simplifying rules, as you might remember a number sequence that always increases by two, according to author Matthew Brashears, Cornell University professor of sociology.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Syl Kacapyr
Public Release: 21-Mar-2013
ScienceASU Biodesign Institute scientists develop innovative twists to DNA nanotechnology In a new discovery that represents a major step in solving a critical design challenge, Arizona State University Professor Hao Yan has led a research team to produce a wide variety of 2-D and 3-D structures that push the boundaries of the burgeoning field of DNA nanotechnology.
National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Army Research Office grant, and more
Contact: Joe Caspermeyer
Public Release: 21-Mar-2013
ScienceTechnique could help designers predict how legged robots will move on granular surfaces Using a combination of theory and experiment, researchers have developed a new approach for understanding and predicting how small legged robots -- and potentially also animals -- move on and interact with complex granular materials such as sand.
National Science Foundation, Army Research Office, Army Research Laboratory
Contact: John Toon
Public Release: 20-Mar-2013
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation EngineeringHumanoid robot helps train children with autism An interdisciplinary team of mechanical engineers and autism experts at Vanderbilt University have developed an adaptive robotic system and used it to demonstrate that humanoid robots can be powerful tools for enhancing the basic social learning skills of children with autism.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Meredith Anne Thomas Foundation
Contact: David Salisbury
Public Release: 20-Mar-2013
ScienceInsights into the immune system, from the fates of individual T cells By charting the differing fates of individual T cells, researchers have shown that previously unpredictable aspects of the adaptive immune response can be effectively modeled. The crucial question: What determines which of the immune system's millions of cells will mobilize to fight an acute infection and which will be held back to survive long-term, forming the basis of the immunological memory? The scientists' findings could have implications for improved immunotherapy and vaccination strategies.
German Research Foundation, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, European Research Council, TUM Institute for Advanced Study, Helmholtz Association, National Science Foundation
Contact: Patrick Regan
Public Release: 20-Mar-2013
WUSTL's Wang to study oxygen consumption in cells with NSF grant Lihong Wang, Ph.D., the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study oxygen consumption rates of individual cells using photoacoustic microscopy, a novel imaging technology he developed that uses light and sound to measure change.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Neil Schoenherr
Public Release: 20-Mar-2013
Journal of Physical Chemistry LettersThin films of nickel and iron oxides yield efficient solar water-splitting catalyst University of Oregon chemists say that ultra-thin films of nickel and iron oxides made through a solution synthesis process are promising catalysts to combine with semiconductors to make devices that capture sunlight and convert water into hydrogen and oxygen gases.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Jim Barlow
Public Release: 20-Mar-2013
NatureScripps scientists discover 'lubricant' for Earth's tectonic plates Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have found a layer of liquefied molten rock in Earth's mantle that may be acting as a lubricant for the sliding motions of the planet's massive tectonic plates. The discovery may carry far-reaching implications, from solving basic geological functions of the planet to a better understanding of volcanism and earthquakes.
National Science Foundation, Seafloor Electromagnetic Methods Consortium at Scripps
Contact: Mario Aguilera or Robert Monroe
Public Release: 20-Mar-2013
Journal of Animal EcologySome Alaskan trout use flexible guts for the ultimate binge diet The stomach and intestines of certain Dolly Varden trout double to quadruple in size during month-long, salmon-egg-eating binges in Alaska each August. Because there is so little to eat the rest of the year where they reside, the fish live off the reserves they've built up and their digestive tracks shrink. It's the first time researchers have documented this fish gut flexibility in the wild.
National Science Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Alaska Salmon Processors, University of Washington
Contact: Sandra Hines
Public Release: 19-Mar-2013
Addictive BehaviorsBrain-mapping increases understanding of alcohol's effects on first-year college students A research team that includes several Penn State scientists has completed a first-of-its-kind longitudinal pilot study aimed at better understanding how the neural processes that underlie responses to alcohol-related cues change during students' first year of college.
National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Contact: Seth Palmer
Public Release: 19-Mar-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesDNA catalysts do the work of protein enzymes Illinois chemists have used DNA to do a protein's job, creating opportunities for DNA to find work in more areas of biology, chemistry and medicine than ever before. The researchers published their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
National Institutes of Health, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, National Science Foundation
Contact: Liz Ahlberg
Public Release: 19-Mar-2013
Journal of Neural EngineeringWireless, implanted sensor broadens range of brain research A compact, self-contained sensor recorded and transmitted brain activity data wirelessly for more than a year in early stage animal tests, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Contact: Karin Lee
Public Release: 19-Mar-2013
Nature CommunicationsTenfold boost in ability to pinpoint proteins in cancer cells A new method for color-coding cells allows cancer researchers to illuminate 100 biomarkers, a ten-time increase from the current standard. This helps to analyze individual cells from cultures or tissue biopsies.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, UW Bioengineering
Contact: Michelle Ma
Public Release: 18-Mar-2013
Nature MaterialsPhysicists use 3-D printing to test complex qualities of shapes made via computer University of Chicago physicists study jamming and the structural properties of shapes.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Steve Koppes
Public Release: 18-Mar-2013
Physical Review LettersElectrons are not enough: Cuprate superconductors defy convention To engineers, it's a tale as old as time: Electrical current is carried through materials by flowing electrons. But physicists at the University of Illinois and the University of Pennsylvania found that for copper-containing superconductors, known as cuprates, electrons are not enough to carry the current.
National Science Foundation, Department of Energy
Contact: Liz Ahlberg
Public Release: 18-Mar-2013
UT Arlington engineer to search for bad algal blooms A University of Texas at Arlington environmental engineer has received a three-year, $561,730 grant to identify harmful algal blooms in fresh and salt water so that water providers can take action to contain and curb the blooms.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Herb Booth
Public Release: 18-Mar-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesSlabs of ancient tectonic plate still lodged under California, researchers find The Isabella anomaly -- the seismic signal of a large mass of cool, dehydrated material about 100 kilometers beneath central California -- is in fact a surviving slab of the Farallon oceanic plate, according to research led by Brown University geophysicists. Most of the Farallon plate was driven deep into the Earth's mantle as the Pacific and North American plates began converging around 100 million years, eventually coming together to form the San Andreas fault.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kevin Stacey
Public Release: 18-Mar-2013
Astronomer gets grant to better measure mysterious black holes Black holes, the high-gravity phenomena of galaxies from which no light can escape, will be better measured thanks to a $862,769 National Science Foundation grant to a Georgia State University astronomer.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jeremy Craig
Public Release: 18-Mar-2013
International effort to develop world's biggest telescope gains NSF as planning partner The Thirty Meter Telescope, supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and an international collaboration of research institutions and governments, gained support today from the National Science Foundation.
National Science Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Contact: Genny Biggs
Public Release: 18-Mar-2013
NeuroImageDifficulty in recognizing faces in autism linked to performance in a group of neurons Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have discovered a brain anomaly that explains why some people diagnosed with autism cannot easily recognize faces -- a deficit linked to the impairments in social interactions considered to be the hallmark of the disorder.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Karen Mallet
Public Release: 18-Mar-2013
Organic LettersOregon researchers synthesize negative-charge carrying molecular structures University of Oregon chemists have synthesized organic molecular structures that move both positive and negative electrical charges -- a highly desired but often difficult combination to achieve in current efforts to create highly flexible electronic devices and other new-age technologies.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jim Barlow
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