Biological Sciences
A research team has shed light on the inner workings of the endocycle, a common cell cycle that fuels growth in plants and animals.
| 3 min read
Researchers have found that manipulating a genetic factor that can launch or throttle the body’s defenses can improve survival rates.
| 2 min read
Scientists explain how they used DNA to ID microbes present in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
| 3 min read
Thanks to a unique Argonne-developed computer program and cloud computing testbed, researchers mapped the strain's genes recently.
| 4 min read
A newly developed method for microscopically extracting information from genomes could boost the search for new therapeutic drugs.
| 2 min read
Michael Glavanovich receives calls with all kinds of strange requests. Once, a woman phoned to ask him if a piece of meat tossed into her yard for her dog contained poison.
| 5+ min read
The combo of a high-performance computer simulation with neutron scattering experiments led to the discovery.
| 2 min read
Chemists were testing the sensor when dust got stuck inside and they found they could measure the composition of single particles.
| 3 min read
Thanks to work at LLNL, sub-three-minute amplification of DNA and RNA via polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is now possible.
| 3 min read
Chromatin states can influence transcription directly by altering the packaging of DNA to allow or prevent access to DNA-binding proteins, or they can modify the nucleosome surface to enhance or impede recruitment of effector protein complexes.
| 5 min read
Scientists have identified how a hormone turns on a series of molecular switches inside the pancreas that increases production of insulin.
| 4 min read
LANL recently completed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Biomagnetics to commercially develop device.
| 2 min read
