How neurons lose their connections
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Strengthening and weakening the connections between neurons, known as synapses, is vital to the brain’s development and everyday function. One way that neurons weaken their synapses is by swallowing up receptors on their surfaces that normally respond to glutamate, one of the brain’s excitatory chemicals.
Chemists discover how a single enzyme maintains a cell’s pool of DNA building blocks
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Cell survival depends on having a plentiful and balanced pool of the four chemical building blocks that make up DNA — the deoxyribonucleosides deoxyadenosine, deoxyguanosine, deoxycytidine, and thymidine, often abbreviated as A, G, C, and T. However, if too many of these components pile up, or if their usual ratio is disrupted, that can be deadly for the cell.
A nanophotonic comeback for incandescent bulbs?
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Traditional light bulbs, thought to be well on their way to oblivion, may receive a reprieve thanks to a technological breakthrough.
Bringing mobile banking to the developing world
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Seattle, Washington - In Kenya, the ease of transferring money via mobile phone has increased incomes in rural areas, enabled small businesses to thrive and reshaped the country’s economy.
Scientists Discover Blueprint of Body's Temperature Sensor
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Durham, North Carolina - Touch a hot stove, and your fingers will recoil in pain because your skin carries tiny temperature sensors that detect heat and send a message to your brain saying, “Ouch! That’s hot! Let go!”
ICE deports Salvadoran man wanted for human trafficking
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Buffalo, New York - A 35-year-old Salvadoran man wanted in his home country on human trafficking charges was removed Friday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
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