Molecular potential
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Conventional epidemiological and clinical studies have revealed most human carcinogens, but these studies lack sensitivity and resolution which may be obtained by molecular epidemiological research. Recent research comparing six different genotoxic endpoints using rural and urban Polish populations has established statistically significant differences between winter and summer pollution exposure. Molecular epidemiology shows great promise and may eventually yield prediction of future cancers as well as intervention studies.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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The role of gravitational potential energy in active deformation in the southwestern United States
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Mantle buoyancy forces as measured by gravitational potential energy (PE) are enough to produce the broad range of styles and rates of deformation in the Cordilleran orogen of the Southwestern US. Buoyancy forces can give rise to all the active deformations, except the strike-slip motion at the Pacific-North American plate boundary. External boundary forces produced by far-field plate kinematics and tractions at the base of the lithosphere generally do not effect the deformation of the interior of the Cordillera.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1996
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A molecular information ratchet
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The information of the location of a macrocycle in a rotaxane, a molecular ring threaded onto a molecule axle, can be utilized to change the kinetics of the shuttling of the macrocycle between two compartments of the axle. The analysis has shown that synthetic molecular machines can operate by an information ratchet mechanism in which the knowledge of a particle's position is used to control its transport away from equilibrium.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
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