Gabriel Ortega: “How Do Halophiles Endure Extreme Salinity?”
The slow but unstoppable progress of evolution has enabled, step by step, mutation after mutation, the conquest of virtually all ecosystems on Earth. Even in...
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Fundamental science without an immediate application – the mechanisms, structures and phenomena later work is built on.
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SOD1 Trimeric Species Causes Neuron Death and ALS
Researchers from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have solved the structure of a toxic protein aggregate that causes Amiotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)....
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A Noncoding RNA Regulates Chromosome Number
Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered a gene that keeps the number of chromosomes stable. NORAD (Noncoding RNA Activated by DNA Damage) transcripts are the...
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The Bucaramanga Giant Who Crossed the Atlantic for Science
Jhon Alex Rodriguez Buitrago is a Colombian structural biologist who left his country to pursue a scientific career that has already taken him to Spain,...
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A More Potent Water Purification System Based on Cyclodextrin
A team of researchers form Cornell University has developed a water purifier based on a cyclodextrin modification. The original polymer, a compound used in air fresheners,...
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From Russia with Love… for Science
Labcritics presents a lengthy interview with Elizaveta Katorcha, a Russian scientist working in the US. The structural biologist and X-ray spectroscopist talks about her love for...
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PITCh: An Alternative Use of TALENs and CRISPR/Cas9
Researchers from Hiroshima University have presented a new gene insertion method called Precise Integration into Target Chromosome (PITCh). The method uses existent gene editing technologies more effectively. The...
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Diamonds Increase Sensitivity of NMR and MRI
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have hyperpolarized carbon-13 nuclei in...
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