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Scientists try to understand how networks of genes work together to create specific patterns like stripes. They have gone beyond studying individual networks and have created computational and synthetic mechanisms for a whole 'design space' of networks in the bacteria Escherichia coli.
Sep 23rd, 2014
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Scientists have established an easy to use, low-cost, rapid, and high sensitivity semiconductor-imaging based medical diagnostic biosensing system for analyzing blood and urine for early diagnosis of ailments including diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.
Sep 23rd, 2014
Read moreResearchers have developed a technique for converting winery waste into compounds that could have potential value as biofuels or medicines.
Sep 23rd, 2014
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Using a gene-editing system that can disable any target gene, researchers have shown that they can selectively kill bacteria carrying harmful genes that confer antibiotic resistance or cause disease.
Sep 23rd, 2014
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Researchers have successfully identified the 'molecular accelerator' that activates the peroxisomal processes. To their surprise, it turned out to be an old acquaintance: a certain module of the familiar protein Pex22p, which has hitherto always been considered an anchor protein.
Sep 22nd, 2014
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Thanks to biotechnology, researchers have increased the production of woody species. This result could be of great interest to the energy market.
Sep 22nd, 2014
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Two new technologies from researchers at MIT could enable novel strategies for combating drug-resistant bacteria.
Sep 21st, 2014
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Crystals of membrane proteins and protein complexes often diffract to low resolution owing to their intrinsic molecular flexibility, heterogeneity or the mosaic spread of micro-domains. At low resolution, the building and refinement of atomic models is a more challenging task. The deformable elastic network refinement method developed previously has been instrumental in the determination of several structures at low resolution. Here, DEN refinement is reviewed.
Sep 19th, 2014
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New finding could accelerate research to regenerate damaged tissue.
Sep 18th, 2014
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Researchers report the effects of atmospheric plasma irradiation on an artificial plasma membrane system.
Sep 18th, 2014
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A genetically engineered tobacco plant, developed with two genes from blue-green algae (cyanobacteria), holds promise for improving the yields of many food crops.
Sep 17th, 2014
Read moreResearchers have developed a new cocktail that coaxes adult cells to become pluripotent stem cells of a high enough quality to be used in therapeutic applications. Their research showed that using a different combination of reprogramming factors can produce a much higher quality result, delivering fewer colonies of iPSCs of which 80 percent passed the toughest pluripotency test.
Sep 16th, 2014
Read moreScientists have identified a highly sensitive means of analyzing very tiny amounts of DNA. The discovery, they say, could increase the ability of forensic scientists to match genetic material in some criminal investigations. It could also prevent the need for a painful, invasive test given to transplant patients at risk of rejecting their donor organs and replace it with a blood test that reveals traces of donor DNA.
Sep 15th, 2014
Read moreResearchers have developed a new approach to measure proteins with structures that change. This could enable new diagnostic tools for the early recognition of neurodegenerative diseases to be developed.
Sep 14th, 2014
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Researchers have resolved a long-standing challenge in stem cell biology by successfully 'resetting' human pluripotent stem cells to a fully pristine state, at point of their greatest developmental potential.
Sep 11th, 2014
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RNAcentral 1.0 provides a single access point to non-coding RNA data, vastly improving research into gene products.
Sep 10th, 2014
Read moreA new computer model that shows how plants grow under varying conditions could help scientists develop varieties likely to grow well in future.
Sep 10th, 2014
Read moreThe recently developed fluorescent protein Amrose is now being used for advanced near-IR imaging procedures. With the aid of a novel evolutionary platform technology, scientists have developed this infrared marker as part of a combined effort to improve the quality of tissue imaging.
Sep 9th, 2014
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