Biology
A University of Michigan biophysical chemist and his colleagues have discovered the smallest and fastest-known molecular switches made of RNA, the chemical cousin of DNA.
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Biologists from New York University have uncovered new ways our biological clock’s neurons use electrical activity to help keep behavioral rhythms in order.
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Rapid, accurate genetic sequencing soon may be within reach of every doctor's office if recent research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science can be commercialized effectively.
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Bioinformatics breakthrough has clinical & environmental applications
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New research from UNC has established the first link between the two most fundamental epigenetic tags -- histone modification and DNA methylation -- in humans.
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A new study from MIT neuroscientists sheds light on a neural circuit that makes us likelier to remember what we’re seeing when our brains are in a more attentive state.
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The science of how and why plant roots get their shape, it turns out, is a twisted tale.
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Single-celled algae and nitrogen-fixing bacteria help fertilize the oceans.
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An electronic tag designed at the University of Washington can for the first time see when birds meet in the wild.
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Lithium chloride enables neutron studies of protein/solvent interactions at supercold temperatures.
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Pattern may be used in forensics to help determine where a particular bacterial strain originates.
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Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes have revealed the precise order and timing of hundreds of genetic “switches” required to construct a fully functional heart from embryonic heart cells.
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