Biology
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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While medicine has treated bacterial infections in one of two ways— either killing the tiny organisms or slowing down their growth— doctors may soon have yet another weapon in the fight against pathogenic bacteria.
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Super storm Sandy wreaks havoc on researchers across New York City, destroying samples, killing lab animals, and cutting power to much of Manhattan.
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Completing the first phase of the 1000 Genomes Project, a multinational team of scientists reports that they have sampled a total of 1092 individuals from 14 different populations and sequenced their full genomes.
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New research published in the prestigious journal Science reveals Jurassic Park's depiction of these bird-mimic dinosaurs is not entirely accurate — the ornithomimids, as they are scientifically known, should have had feathers and wings.
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A Kansas State University professor's research analyzing lipids is helping scientists around the world understand plant responses and develop better crops that can withstand environmental stress.
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Neuroscientists from New York University and the University of California, Irvine have isolated the “when” and “where” of molecular activity that occurs in the formation of short-, intermediate-, and long-term memories.
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Multicolored probes target cell wall synthesis in the arms race with bacteria.
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