Biology
North Carolina State University researchers have created specially engineered mammalian cells to provide a new “chemical handle” which will enable researchers to label proteins of interest more efficiently.
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Scientists have developed and implanted into a living insect — the False Death's Head Cockroach — a miniature fuel cell that converts naturally occurring sugar in the insect and oxygen from the air into electricity.
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Ruben Gonzalez views ribosomes—the minute particles in cells that make proteins—as the “machines” of life.....
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A UChicago research team is working on a technique that might lead to a new, dramatically simpler way to predict molecular motion inside a cell.
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have created a new generation of fast-acting fluorescent dyes that optically highlight electrical activity in neuronal membranes.
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Implications for producing sustainable biomass, biofuels, and food-processing agents...
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The particles, which are tagged with fluorescent proteins have been tested safely on fruit flies.
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Last year, it was first shown that the proteins can be fused to DNA modifying enzymes to manipulate genes and gene functions.
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The computer assisted design (CAD) tools that made it possible to fabricate integrated circuits with millions of transistors may soon be coming to the biological sciences.
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In an example of life imitating art, biologists and bioengineers at UC San Diego have created a living neon sign composed of millions of bacterial cells that periodically fluoresce in unison like blinking light bulbs.
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Their findings, published today in the journal PLoS Genetics, plot the evolutionary relationships of 150 different species of plants based on advanced genome-wide analysis of gene structure and function.
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A survey of over 200 stem cell researchers in the U.S. found that nearly four in ten researchers have faced excessive delay in acquiring a human embryonic stem cell line and that more than one-quarter were unable to acquire a line they needed.
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