Biological Sciences
University of Florida researchers have discovered for the first time that some Earth bacteria can live under the same low pressure conditions found on Mars.
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Researchers have demonstrated a new technology that combines a laser and electric fields to create tiny centrifuge-like whirlpools to separate particles and microbes by size, a potential lab-on-a-chip system for medicine and research.
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The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has initiated a quest for alternatives to conventional antibiotics. One potential alternative is PlyC, a potent enzyme that kills the bacteria that causes strep throat and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.
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Research supports effectiveness of tree bark as novel sampling medium for contamination.
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A simple, precise and inexpensive method for cutting DNA to insert genes into human cells could transform genetic medicine, making routine what now are expensive, complicated and rare procedures for replacing defective genes in order to fix genetic disease or even cure AIDS.
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Today, in a second settlement arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, Transocean Deepwater Inc., the operator of the drilling platform, agreed to pay $1.4 billion in civil and criminal penalties to the federal government.
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The human genome is like a roadmap for the body, but our understanding of the road signs that point some people toward a long life and others to an early death is still limited.
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New spectroscopy technique could help doctors better identify breast tumors.
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A study by Johns Hopkins researchers has shown that a widely accepted model of long-term memory formation — that it hinges on a single enzyme in the brain — is flawed.
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Advances in bio-technologies and computer software have helped make genome sequencing much more common than in the past. But still in question are both the accuracy of different sequencing methods and the best ways to evaluate these efforts.
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Scientists from the lab of Stowers Investigator Ali Shilatifard, Ph.D., report in the December 27, 2012 online issue of Cell that one way cells stay so plastic is by stationing a protein called Ell3 at stretches of DNA known as “enhancers” required to activate a neighboring gene.
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Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have built a small fleet of portable pollution sensors that allow users to monitor air quality in real time on their smart phones.
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