Biology
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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Salk and Iowa State researchers identify three proteins involved in plant fatty acids, the key components of seed oils.
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Techniques used by researchers from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to analyze a simple marine worm and its resident bacteria could accelerate efforts to understand more complex microbial communities such as those found in humans.
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