Biology
Biofilms may no longer have any solid ground upon which to stand. A team of Harvard scientists has developed a slick way to prevent the troublesome bacterial communities from ever forming on a surface.
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When one observes a colorful jellyfish pulsating through the ocean, Greek mythology probably doesn't immediately come to mind...
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New research has shown that a protein does something that scientists once thought impossible: It unfolds itself and refolds into a completely new shape.
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A new Web resource developed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego is helping thousands of researchers worldwide unravel the enigmas of phylogenetics.
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New research led by chemists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is seeking to detail the individual steps of highly efficient reactions that convert sunlight into chemical energy within plants and bacteria.
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Genetic engineers and genomics researchers should welcome the news from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) where an international team of scientists has discovered a new and possibly more effective means of editing genomes.
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According to an old country song, the only two things money can't buy are true love and homegrown tomatoes....
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Researchers rediscover a giant insect, thought to have gone extinct a century ago, and plan to reintroduce it to its native island off the coast of Australia.
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Regenerative medicine researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have reached an early milestone in a long-term project that aims to build replacement kidneys in the lab to help solve the shortage of donor organs.
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Modern science is immensely complex, but Professor Virginia Cornish had a simple idea for solving a big problem....
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Lines in US registry will help studies on Huntington’s disease, hemophilia & more.
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An Indiana University team of researchers has conducted the most in-depth and diverse genetic analysis of the defense systems that trillions of micro-organisms in the human body use to fend off viruses.
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