Biology
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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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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The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences has announced the establishment of a pre-competitive, multi-organization partnership designed to advance an integrated systems biology approach to toxicity testing research.
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With a new research center, Stanford scientists from across campus will join a new "information age of genomics." The goal is nothing short of improving human well-being.
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In efforts to understand what influences life span, cancer and aging, scientists are building road maps to navigate and learn about cells at the molecular level.
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Effort to solve questions on protein folding created field of protein physical science that has led to major scientific advances.
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A consortium of scientists, led by Bigelow Laboratory’s Ramunas Stepanauskas, has received a major award of services from the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute to perform single cell whole genome sequencing of over 300 deep subsurface microbes that have lived in isolation for millions of years.
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Symbiotic microbes’ origin discovered after man impales hand on branch.
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Chemists and vision scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have designed a light-sensitive molecule that can stimulate a neural response in cells of the retina and brain -- a possible first step to overcoming degenerative eye diseases like age-related macular degeneration, or to quieting epileptic seizures.
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Rats use a sense that humans don’t: “whisking.” They move their facial whiskers back and forth about eight times a second to locate objects in their environment. Could humans acquire this sense?
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