To study certain aspects of cells, researchers need the ability to take the innards out, manipulate them, and put them back. Options for this kind of work are limited, but researchers reporting May 10 in Cell Metabolism describe ...
Bio & Medicine
May 10, 2016
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Researchers sequenced a fungal endophyte of rubber trees and compared its genome to 36 other fungi, focusing on genes that are crucial to host-fungus interactions.
Biotechnology
Apr 5, 2016
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The human genome codes for more than 20,000 different proteins, however the molecular role for many of these proteins is not known. As most proteins are conserved from fly to humans, understanding the molecular role of a ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 8, 2016
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Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Center for Brain Science (CBS), and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology have been awarded over $28 million to develop advanced machine ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 21, 2016
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today announced that authors of manuscripts posted on its preprint server bioRxiv can now submit their papers directly to several leading research journals, avoiding the need for reloading ...
Other
Jan 15, 2016
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Researchers from the University of Bristol have uncovered one of the reasons for the evolutionary success of flowering plants.
Evolution
Dec 3, 2015
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Genome editing techniques for blood stem cells just got better, thanks to a team of researchers at USC and Sangamo BioSciences.
Biotechnology
Nov 9, 2015
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Targeted cancer treatments, toxicity sensors and living factories: synthetic biology has the potential to revolutionize science and medicine. But before the technology is ready for real-world applications, more attention ...
Biotechnology
Sep 16, 2015
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When did you first hear the phrase "synthetic biology"? Was it many years ago, or did it just happen when you clicked on this blog?
Other
Sep 15, 2015
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There are approximately 20,000 human genes that encode proteins, but despite remarkable progress since the human genome was first sequenced more than a decade ago, scientists still understand in detail how only a small fraction ...
Biotechnology
Jul 17, 2015
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