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IEEE Spectrum
March 2010
Prachi Patel |
A World-beating TB Detector To quickly and cheaply diagnose the world's worst infectious disease, engineers have shrunk an NMR machine down to size   |
Chemistry World
March 15, 2010
James Urquhart |
All aboard the DNA nanotube Cargo-carrying DNA nanotubes that can rapidly release their load on demand have been made for the first time by Canadian researchers. |
Chemistry World
March 12, 2010
Anna Lewcock |
Striking algal oil Algal oil is being touted as a hot new source of environmentally friendly fuel, but methods to work out which strains of algae will be best to use are painfully slow and error-prone. |
Chemistry World
March 11, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Thalidomide Binding Protein Revealed Scientists in Japan believe they have revealed one of the key molecular targets that binds to the drug thalidomide to cause birth defects. |
Chemistry World
March 8, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Molecular midwives helped birth of DNA 'Molecular midwives' - are compounds that played a crucial role in combining small nucleotide fragments into the first genetic polymeric material. |
Chemistry World
March 4, 2010
Andy Extance |
Silver sputtered nano chips mimic brain synapse US researchers aiming to emulate the functionality of a cat's brain have developed an easily-fabricated, robust nanoscale device that imitates the connectivity between neurons in the brain. |
Popular Mechanics
March 4, 2010
Erin McCarthy |
More Than Just Stuffing: Taxidermy Questions For Melissa Milgrom In most cases, taxidermists for museums are creating or refurbishing mounts of animals they've never seen. How can they perfectly recreate nature without ever having seen it? |
Chemistry World
March 1, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
US launches new regulatory science program Two major US government agencies have partnered to create a new regulatory science program to ensure better integration between cutting edge science and regulatory processes in assessing new medical products or compounds flowing from biomedical research. |
Chemistry World
March 1, 2010
Andy Extance |
Bacterial mix sweetens biodrug synthesis Bacteria welcome in the human gut are set to become better factories for biological drugs thanks to modified genes from another, gastroenteritis-causing, species. |
Chemistry World
March 2010
Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: Smoking kills What we didn't realise until now is that nicotine residues absorbed on indoor surfaces (carpets, wallpaper etc) react with gases in the air to produce even more cancer-causing carcinogens. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2010
Susan Karlin |
How to Reboot Your Corpse Thousands of bodies are already cryonically frozen, waiting for faster computers and medical advances that will undo their cause of death |
Chemistry World
February 28, 2010
Jon Cartwright |
Reactions on DNA origami watched with AFM Chemists in Denmark have for the first time imaged chemical reactions on a DNA origami scaffold so that they can precisely attach single molecules, involving atomic force microscopy. |
Chemistry World
February 24, 2010
Hayley Birch |
Marine microbes wired up A new study provides evidence for the existence of naturally occurring electric circuits orchestrated by marine bacteria. |
Chemistry World
February 24, 2010
James Urquhart |
Buckyball-based gene delivery Japanese researchers have demonstrated effective gene delivery in mice using carbon buckyballs. |
Chemistry World
February 22, 2010
Hayley Birch |
Soil switches on antibiotic genes in bacteria So-called 'cryptic' bacterial genes that preside over the production of medically important compounds can be switched on using environmental triggers, German scientists have shown. |
Outside
March 2010
Brian Alexander |
It's the Dog In You The world's greatest athletes, of any species, are the canines who pull sleds at the Iditarod. Now, a project funded by the Pentagon's research arm, is coming up with ways to make us more like them. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2010
Erin Scottberg |
The World's Most Expensive Cow What makes Missy a million-dollar-cow? Missy's value is enhanced by the likelihood that she will pass those excellent genes on to generations of offspring. |
Chemistry World
February 16, 2010
Sean Milmo |
New scheme to boost bio-based chemistry The European Commission has launched an initiative to help chemical companies switch to renewable feedstocks and energy sources. |
Popular Mechanics
February 11, 2010
Adam Hadhazy |
The Truth About 9 Anti-Vaccine Studies Led by celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy, the anti-vaccine movement continues to vehemently oppose mainstream science's overwhelming consensus that vaccines do not cause developmental disorders. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2010
Davin Coburn |
The Science Behind 7 Winter Olympic Events Olympic skiers subject their bodies to as much as 3.5 g's -- more than space shuttle astronauts endure during launch |
Chemistry World
February 8, 2010
Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay |
To catch a cheating athlete As the athletes take center stage at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games this month, chemists will be hard at work behind the scenes to catch athletes looking to win by taking drugs or blood products to artificially boost their performance during the competition. |
Chemistry World
February 3, 2010
Hayley Birch |
How spider silk soaks up water Spider silk may change its structure when it gets wet, enhancing its ability to capture water from the air, a new study by Chinese scientists suggests |
Chemistry World
February 3, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
DNA origami goes large US researchers have found a way to scale up DNA origami into larger structures by using 'tiles' instead of 'staples' to pin them in place. |
Chemistry World
February 3, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
New 'hook' for reversibly binding molecules to proteins UK chemists have found a simple new 'hook' that allows molecules to be attached to proteins and later removed, something that is currently difficult to achieve. |
Popular Mechanics
February 3, 2010
Cassie Rodenberg |
Top 5 Most Damaging Invasive Species in the U.S. As transportation into the country has become more advanced, more invasive species have come in on boats and planes, thus worsening the problems posed to ecosystems. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010 |
Ahead of the Curve Jack Szostak is drawn to uncharted territory. His curiosity and big thinking about telomerase have earned him a Nobel Prize. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010
Robert Tjian |
Beyond Our Borders Ray Wu. Gifted scientist, mentor, advocate, and friend, he was all of these and more to several generations of researchers across the United States and China. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010
Brian Vastag |
View From the Top An uncanny way with crystals led Tom Steitz to a clear view of the ribosome's structure and to a Nobel Prize. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010 |
The Thrill of Molecules Ann Stock knew that high school students would enjoy getting their hands on molecular models. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010 |
Cells Behaving Better James J. Collins is an engineer at heart, but as an HHMI investigator at Boston University, he studies living cells. His research gets at the crux of how cells function. The implications are huge but far in the future for synthetic biology. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010
Saltus & Cutraro |
No Dozing Off Teenagers from Abraham Lincoln High School, an urban public school in San Francisco, were trying to earning one of the top scores in the 2009 International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, designed to fuel enthusiasm in synthetic biology -- a merger of biology and engineering. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010
George Heidekat |
Through Stickleback Eyes Like Darwin studying the finches of the Galapagos, Dan Bolnick works with three-spined sticklebacks. For the past 10 summers, he's prowled the island, investigating the sardine-sized fish's evolutionary dynamics. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010
Lauren Gravitz |
Restoration Hardware To rescue injured nerves, Yishi Jin is studying fast growing c elegans. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010
Jennifer Michalowski |
GPS for the Nematode You'd think the genetics of a creature as small as the eyelash-sized roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans would be simple. But scientists are finding surprising complexity. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010
Mitch Leslie |
Not So Simple Researchers begin to reveal bacteria's sophisticated architecture; they just needed the right tools for the job. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010
Charles Schmidt |
SMART in More Ways Than One Protein reactions are interesting. But make them glow in the dark, and wow! That's what Max Horlbeck remembers thinking as a high school student in fall 2004. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010 |
Exploring Biodiversity: The Search for New Medicines Glow-in-the-dark bacteria and poisonous sea snails took center stage at the 2009 Holiday Lectures for high school students. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Histones Wreaking Havoc A close look at infected blood samples reveals how sepsis spirals out of control. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Righty, Lefty An unusual type of amino acid acts as a growth signal in bacteria. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Viral Takeover Scientists uncover how some mosquito-borne viruses hijack cells to reproduce. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010
Jim Schnabel |
Nano-Motion Pictures Scientists are now able to track the movements of single proteins as they shuttle along a DNA strand. |
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