Biology
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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Enabling bioengineers to design new molecular machines for nanotechnology applications is one of the possible outcomes of a study by University of Montreal researchers
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Findings suggest ways to increase oil production for biofuels and industrial processes.
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Investigators announced today that they reached a significant milestone by determining 1,000 protein structures from infectious disease organisms.
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An international team, led by the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and including members from Arizona State University, shows how the world's most powerful X-ray laser can help crack the atomic code of biomolecules.
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Salk scientists develop new technique for solving the structure of most popular targets for half of all drugs, potentially aiding discovery of new therapeutics.
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New York University physicists have developed a method that models biological cell-to-cell adhesion that could also have industrial applications.
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Findings suggest hope for patients with glaucoma, optic nerve damage.
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Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have uncovered a series of biological events that implicate the stem cells' surroundings, known as their "niche," as the culprit in loss of stem cells due to aging.
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Quantum physics and plant biology seem like two branches of science that could not be more different, but surprisingly they may in fact be intimately tied.
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In order to take full advantage of RNAi technology for disease research, scientists in the Broad Institute’s RNAi Platform launched an effort to build a library of RNAi reagents to target every gene in the human and mouse genomes.
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