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Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
 Nature Scientific ReportsNext-gen e-readers: Improved 'peacock' technology could lock in color for high-res displays Iridescence, or sheen that shifts color depending on your viewing angle, is pretty in peacock feathers. But it's been a nuisance for engineers trying to mimic the birds' unique color mechanism to make high-resolution, reflective, color display screens. 
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Science Foundation
Contact: Nicole Casal Moore
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
PLOS GeneticsMitochondrial mutations: When the cell's 2 genomes collide Animal cells contain two genomes: One in the nucleus and one in the mitochondria. When mutations occur in each, they can become incompatible, leading to disease. To increase understanding of such illnesses, scientists at Brown University and Indiana University have traced one example in fruit flies down to the individual errant nucleotides and the mechanism by which the flies become sick.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Indiana University
Contact: David Orenstein
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
PLOS GeneticsBiologists map rare case of fitness-reducing interaction in nuclear, mitochondrial DNA A team of biologists from Indiana University and Brown University believes it has discovered the mechanism by which interacting mutations in mitochondrial and nuclear DNA produce an incompatible genotype that reduces reproductive fitness and delays development in fruit flies.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Indiana University
Contact: Steve Chaplin
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
LangmuirAchilles heel: Popular drug-carrying nanoparticles get trapped in bloodstream Many medically minded researchers are in hot pursuit of designs that will allow drug-carrying nanoparticles to navigate tissues and the interiors of cells, but University of Michigan engineers have discovered that these particles have another hurdle to overcome: escaping the bloodstream.
American Heart Association, National Science Foundation
Contact: Kate McAlpine
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
Plant CellNewly discovered plant structure may lead to improved biofuel processing When Li Tan approached his colleagues at the University of Georgia with some unusual data he had collected, they initially seemed convinced that his experiment had become contaminated; what he was seeing simply didn't make any sense.
National Science Foundation, Department of Energy BioEnergy Science Center
Contact: Debra Mohnen
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
ASME 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic EngineeringCargo container research to improve buildings' ability to withstand tsunamis A multi-university team lead by Ronald Riggs, a structural engineer at the University of Hawaii, has determined just what the impact of cargo containers could be and will present findings at an international conference in June. The goal is to supply structural engineers with information to design buildings in areas vulnerable to tsunamis.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jeanne Norberg
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
Nature CommunicationsUsing single quantum dots to probe nanowires Plasmonic antennas will help image and detect bio-particles. This new research helps establish this approach.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Science Foundation, PFS, Naval Research Applied Electromagnetics Center
Contact: Phillip F. Schewe
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
Nature CommunicationsEvidence that at least 1 mammal can smell in stereo Neuroscientist Kenneth Catania has resolved a long-standing scientific debate by showing that the common mole can smell in stereo.
National Science Foundation
Contact: David Salisbury
Public Release: 4-Feb-2013
New effort to find why replacement hips and knees go bad A Case Western Reserve University researcher has been awarded a five-year $600,000 National Science Foundation-CAREER grant to create new materials and equipment to test ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene used to make artificial joints. She and her team of researchers will also develop magnetic particle imaging techniques to monitor degradation and wear.
US National Science Foundation
Contact: Kevin Mayhood
Public Release: 4-Feb-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesGrooming helps insects keep their senses sharpened North Carolina State University researchers show that insect grooming -- specifically, antennal cleaning -- removes both environmental pollutants and chemicals produced by the insects themselves. The findings show that grooming helps insects maintain acute olfactory senses that are responsible for a host of functions, including finding food, sensing danger and even locating a suitable mate.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture
Contact: Coby Schal
Public Release: 4-Feb-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesNew study shows that gases work with particles to promote cloud formation Columbia Engineering and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that certain volatile organic gases can promote cloud formation in a way never considered before by atmospheric scientists. They say this is the first time gases have been shown to affect cloud formation in this way and will "improve our ability to model cloud formation, an important component of climate."
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, National Science Foundation, Georgia Institute of Technology
Contact: Holly Evarts
Public Release: 3-Feb-2013
Nature GeneticsPlant scientists at CSHL demonstrate new means of boosting maize yields A team of plant geneticists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has successfully demonstrated what it describes as a "simple hypothesis" for making significant increases in yields for the maize plant.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture
Contact: Peter Tarr
Public Release: 3-Feb-2013
Nature MethodsRecreating natural complex gene regulation By reproducing in the laboratory the complex interactions that cause human genes to turn on inside cells, Duke University bioengineers have created a system they believe can benefit gene therapy research and the burgeoning field of synthetic biology.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Hartwell Foundation, March of Dimes
Contact: Richard Merritt
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