Biological Sciences
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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Baylor University researchers are one step closer to understanding the algae that causes a substantial number of fish deaths in more than 18 states.
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Adrian Cheng, a scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, was named today in Forbes' second annual "30 Under 30" list of tomorrow's brightest stars.
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Gravity: It's the law in these parts. But to reach the stars, humans may have to learn to live outside the law.
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A comprehensive map three years in the making is telling the story of humans' impact on the Great Lakes, identifying how "environmental stressors" stretching from Minnesota to Ontario are shaping the future of an ecosystem that contains 20 percent of the world's fresh water.
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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center have discovered a new form of cell division in human cells. They believe it serves as a natural back-up mechanism during faulty cell division, preventing some cells from going down a path that can lead to cancer.
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University of Arkansas grad student becomes the first scientist to collect slime molds from soils in Panama’s Barro Colorado Nature Monument. In doing so, she becomes one of the first researchers to systematically take samples of slime molds, the most abundant predators of soil bacteria and fungi, in tropical soils.
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Research will help develop a resource for human disease study.
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One of the great mysteries of life is how it began. What physical process transformed a nonliving mix of chemicals into something as complex as a living cell? For more than a century, scientists have struggled to reconstruct the key first steps on the road to life.
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Biologists at UC San Diego have succeeded in genetically engineering algae to produce a complex and expensive human therapeutic drug used to treat cancer.
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