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Molecular & Computational biology Sep 27, 2023

Q&A: Xiaohan Yang on transforming plants for a cleaner future

Scientist Xiaohan Yang's research at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory focuses on transforming plants to make them better sources of renewable energy and carbon storage.

Cell & Microbiology Sep 20, 2023

Supercomputer simulation tackles problem of drug-resistant bacteria

A first-ever, atom-by-atom supercomputer simulation shows how antibiotics kill bacteria and illustrates other processes of the molecular machinery in living cells. The research opens fresh pathways to improving antibiotics, ...

Cell & Microbiology Sep 14, 2023

Singling out a bacterium from the crowd

Bacteria are nearly ubiquitous and have tremendous impacts on human and ecological health. And yet, they remain largely mysterious to us. Princeton MOL faculty Zemer Gitai, Britt Adamson and Ned Wingreen launched a joint ...

Molecular & Computational biology Sep 8, 2023

Downstream RNA hairpins found orchestrating mRNA translation

Research led by Duke University, Durham, has discovered a situation-dependent traffic jam in mRNA translation caused by RNA hairpins leading to higher translation of upstream start codons (uAUGs).

Astronomy Aug 31, 2023

It's time for a gravitational wave observatory in the Southern Hemisphere, say researchers

What's true for optical astronomy is also true for gravitational wave astronomy: The more observatories you have, the better your view of the sky. This is why the list of active gravitational wave observatories is growing. ...

Biochemistry Aug 29, 2023

Research team clarifies mode of action of cannabinoids in inflammation

While the German government is planning to relax legislation on the use of cannabis, researchers from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, together with colleagues from Italy, Austria and the U.S., have identified the ...

Cell & Microbiology Aug 28, 2023

A synthetic RNA export system reveals the dynamic lives of cells and suggests direction for new therapeutics

Cells change dynamically over time during embryonic development and aging, and in diseases such as inflammation and cancer. Some populations expand, others decline. The ability to track these changes over time, without killing ...

Cell & Microbiology Aug 16, 2023

New inhibitor for regulating the essential protein SMNDC1

The SMNDC1 gene controls key functions in the human body and is linked to diseases such as diabetes and cancer. Scientists in Stefan Kubicek's research group at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian ...

Earth Sciences Aug 15, 2023

Rising methane could be a sign that Earth's climate is part way through a 'termination-level transition'

Since 2006, the amount of heat-trapping methane in Earth's atmosphere has been rising fast and, unlike the rise in carbon dioxide (CO₂), methane's recent increase seems to be driven by biological emissions, not the burning ...

Political science Aug 15, 2023

New book examines the political misinformation that threatens the US system of government

Misinformation pervades U.S. politics.

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