Biological Sciences
Critical genetic secrets of a bacterium that holds potential for removing toxic and radioactive waste from the environment have been revealed in a study by researchers with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
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Just as a breeze causes leaves, branches and ultimately a tree itself to move, enzymes moving at the molecular level perform hundreds of chemical processes that have a ripple effect necessary for life.
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A detailed description of an enzyme's structure complete with a rare location on its structure could mean better therapeutic drugs.
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A study of the Great Lakes and “dead zones” in Lake Erie was one of 41 projects chosen for support by the Joint Genomic Institute.
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The bacteria could serve as a living antibiotic for a range of infectious diseases, a new study indicates.
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A research team has shed light on the inner workings of the endocycle, a common cell cycle that fuels growth in plants and animals.
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Researchers have found that manipulating a genetic factor that can launch or throttle the body’s defenses can improve survival rates.
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Scientists explain how they used DNA to ID microbes present in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Thanks to a unique Argonne-developed computer program and cloud computing testbed, researchers mapped the strain's genes recently.
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A newly developed method for microscopically extracting information from genomes could boost the search for new therapeutic drugs.
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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.
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The combo of a high-performance computer simulation with neutron scattering experiments led to the discovery.
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