经济学人:分子生物学 蛋白质的奥秘(3)

One common protein-contact prediction is that, if the side chain of one member of a pair of amino acids brought close together by folding is long, 一种比较普通的蛋白质接触预测就是，如果一对氨基酸的一个侧链折叠后很长，

VOA标准英语2008年-UNHCR: Georgians Living in Isolated Villages Fo

The UN refugee agency says it is worried about the security of people living in isolated villages near the former conflict zones of Georgia. It says some 2,300 people from villages in the buffer zone between the Georgian town of Gori and the breakaw

TED演讲:如何把熟蛋变生(2)

Here's the key part. 接下来是关键的部分。 The solution nearest the wall spins faster than the solution closer to the middle. 离试管壁最近的溶液，要比中间的溶液旋转得更快。 That difference in velocity creates sheer str

SSS 2011-01-27

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Generations of American children have been told, Eat your broccoli! And for decades, researchers have known that broccoli and related vegetables like cauliflower and water

SSS 2008-09-04

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Conditions such as mad cow disease are caused by abnormally shaped proteins, called prions. Prions spread by causing other, normal proteins to misfold

Do Animals Think?

As a matter of fact, milk always meets in the stomach a digestive juice which curdles it; the curdling of the milk is the first step in its digestion. A similar wrong idea is that fish and ice cream w

SSS 2008-10-08

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? The Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to three men who revolutionized molecular life science, Japans Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien. They dev

SSS 2008-05-05

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Biologists often attempt to construct a genealogy that shows the relationships of all life on earth. One well-accepted effort compares the nucleic acid sequences that cod

SSS 2009-10-07

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in England, Yale Universitys Thomas Steitz, and Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel for their studies of the ribosome.

2006年VOA标准英语-Autism, A Little Understood Disorder May Have G

By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 29 May 2006 watch Autism Gene report Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern have been able to genetically change mice so their behavior is similar to some people with autism. The researchers hope their di

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Speed Dating' For Farmers And Chefs: ISO A Perfect Local-Food Match

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There was a gathering here in Washington, D.C. last week that had nothing to do with the inauguration or with politics. It was an occasion for matchmaking, although not a romantic kind. Here, farmers got set up with chefs in an e

TED演讲:如何把熟蛋变生(1)

It's so obvious that it's practically proverbial. You can't unboil an egg. 很明显又众所周知的是。你不能把一个熟蛋变生。 Well, it turns out you can, sort of. 然而，其实在某种程度上你是可以的。 What thermal energy

Mad Cow Disease

74 疯牛病及其最新的检验方法 DATE=7-24-01 TITLE=SCIENCE IN THE NEWS #2134 - Mad Cow Disease BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach, George Grow VOICE ONE: This is Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve E

2006年VOA标准英语-An Ancient Genetic Disorder Gets Modern Day Att

By Melinda Smith Baltimore, Maryland 05 September 2006 watch report Celiac Disease For thousands of years, human beings have suffered from a genetic disorder that has received attention only in the last few decades. The disorder is called celiac dis

Peanut allergies may be cured in future

BEIJING, Oct. 12(Xinhuanet) -- People allergic to peanuts may find relief in a new research by American scientists, according to Huffington Post Monday. Scientists from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have found a way to turn

Using bacteria to generate energy hopeful

BEIJING, May 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Scientists revealed for the first time the molecular structure of proteins, which enables bacteria to transfer electrical charges, according to a new study. The revelation was published in Proceedings of the National Ac

Human fertilization process discovered

BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Researchers have discovered how a human egg captures an incoming sperm for fertilization, paving the way to help couples suffering from infertility, according to media reports on Monday. An international team of resear

健康生活 从食物搭配开始

There has been a lot of research done on the significance of food combining when we eat. Many believe that our stomach is designed to only digest food correctly one food type at a time or eating foods together that are compatible with each other. Thi

经济学人:熊猫遗传学:熊猫的第二拇指(2)

He and his colleagues noted parallel changes in the genes for three digestive enzymes whose job is to liberate two particular amino acids, lysine and arginine, from proteins. 他的团队发现三种消化酶基因相似的改变，这些消化酶的作

经济学人:熊猫遗传学:熊猫的第二拇指(1)

The anatomy-related adaptations were those that seemed to control the development of the pandas second thumbs. 与生物体结构相关的基因有可能控制熊猫第二拇指的生长。 Two genes in particular, DYNC2H1 and pericentrin, have mutat