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Researchers studying a biological process that enables tiny green algae to grow efficiently have taken the first steps to recreating the mechanism in a more complex plant. Their findings could lead to the breeding of high yield varieties of common crops such as wheat, rice and barley.
Nov 16th, 2015
Read moreAbility to introduce or reverse the spread of genetic traits through populations could one day improve pest management and disease control.
Nov 16th, 2015
Read moreScientists have created molecules that mimic and dominate toxic ones secreted by bacteria. The implications for the study of biology and pharmacology are said to be enormous.
Nov 13th, 2015
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Biomedical engineers have developed specialized white blood cells - dubbed 'super natural killer cells' - that seek out cancer cells in lymph nodes with only one purpose: destroy them. This breakthrough halts the onset of metastasis.
Nov 13th, 2015
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Method safely isolates single stem cells from larger clusters.
Nov 9th, 2015
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Using a high-tech imaging method, a team of biomedical engineers was able to see early-developing cancer cells deeper in tissue than ever before with the help of a novel protein from a bacterium.
Nov 9th, 2015
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Scientists report culturing cells to make extracellular matrix of two types and five different alignments with the strength found in natural tissue and without using any artificial chemicals that could make it incompatible to implant.
Nov 9th, 2015
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Researchers have discovered and described the function of a unique enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of terpene (terpenoid) natural products, and successfully altered its function by altering its structure so that the enzyme produces another molecule.
Nov 9th, 2015
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Usually, harvesting energy and raw materials from plants requires many process steps and aggressive chemicals. To make these processes more efficient and resource saving, researchers are looking for suitable enzymes. Using neutrons, researchers have now investigated the reaction mechanism of an important class of enzymes: the glycosidases.
Nov 2nd, 2015
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State-of-the-art electron microscope images reveal that structure of DNA-copying protein complex differs from long-held textbook view.
Nov 2nd, 2015
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Biophysicists were able to show how differential mechanical forces can lead to cell sorting in biofilms, thereby determining their architecture.
Oct 30th, 2015
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Scientists found a way to produce industrial quantities of useful natural compounds efficiently, by growing them in tomatoes.
Oct 26th, 2015
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Scientists have discovered how RNA molecules regulate the structure of the nucleolus and drive the synthesis of the cellular machinery needed for protein production.
Oct 16th, 2015
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Researchers have imaged in unprecedented detail the three-dimensional structure of supercoiled DNA, revealing that its shape is much more dynamic than the well-known double helix.
Oct 12th, 2015
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Enhanced-sensitivity NMR could reveal new clues to how proteins fold.
Oct 9th, 2015
Read moreEstimates suggest that biomedical research consumes almost a quarter of a trillion US dollars every year, yet according to some studies up to 85 per cent is avoidably wasted. Examples of waste include the non-publication of research, failure to share data and instances where the results of research are untranslatable to the benefit of patients or the efficiency of health care delivery.
Oct 7th, 2015
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Trapping cells that tumors release into the bloodstream allows fast and sensitive genetic analysis.
Oct 7th, 2015
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Researchers have succeed in producing photoreceptors from human embryonic stem cells.
Oct 6th, 2015
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