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Scientists chart course toward a new world of synthetic biology

... advertisement These are just some of the exciting advances likely. emerge from the 20 year old field of engineering biology, or synthetic... provide solutions to a range of societal problems, according...
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Mutant genes could supercharge efforts to decipher protein structures

Mapping the atomic structure of proteins is crucial to... a genome scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle. Fowler notes the new approach doesnt offer the full atomic...
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An ounce of prevention: Preoperative management of inflammation may stave off cancer recurrences

A growing body of evidence suggests that traditional... tumor growth. Now, a team of scientists led by Dipak. MD, and Allison Gartung, PhD, of the Cancer Center at... BIDMC ,...
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Sleep history predicts late-life Alzheimer s pathology

. patterns can predict the accumulation of Alzheimer s pathology proteins... according to a new study of older men and women... prevention measures in the treatment of Alzheimer s disease....
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Artificial intelligence could revolutionize medical care. But don’t trust it to read your x-ray just yet

Scientists are developing a multitude of artificial intelligencealgorithms to help... poised to upend the practice of medicine, boosting the efficiency and accuracy of diagnosis in specialties that... the technology,...
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What drives Yellowstone s massive elk migrations?

Every spring, tens of thousands of elk follow a wave of green growth up onto... snowline and the greening grasses of spring, to decide when... a new study led...
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It s not easy being green

... is known about how parts of plant cells orchestrate growth... cell s activities. The process of photosynthesis, which converts carbon... is like the federal government of the cell, while...
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Viruses found to use intricate treadmill to move cargo across bacterial cells

... bacteria as simple, disorganized blobs of molecules. advertisement Now, using.. to explore the inner workings of bacteria in unprecedented detail, biologists at the University of California San Diego have...
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Monitoring educational equity

A centralized, consistently reported system of indicators of educational equity is needed... report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine... inequities influence nearly every aspect of students...
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Exercise may have different effects in the morning and evening

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have learned that the effect of exercise may differ depending on the time of day it is performed... expenditure for an extended period...
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This psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit

... interrogate him. After 3 hours of being threatened and cajoled, ... clear him. Burton was convicted of second degree murder in 1991 and received a sentence of 15 years to life......
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University of California CRISPR researchers form drug discovery alliance with pharma giant

A new university pharma alliance will use the... Top CRISPR researchers at two University of California UC campuses have teamed... Drawing on a GSK commitment of $67 million over 5.....
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Protecting coral reefs in a deteriorating environment

... a changing climate, on top of the historic threats from... interventions span a wide range of physical and biological approaches for increasing the stability of coral reefs, but they......
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Emory scientist was told to vacate his office. He says move is reprisal for activism on Asian ties

A tenured professor of anesthesiology at Emory University in Atlanta says he.. targeted by school administrators because of a letter he and... on campus and the value of international...
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In wake of Trump’s fetal tissue clampdown, scientists strain to adjust

Renewals of two diabetes grants held by Megan Sykes right of Columbia University could be held up... Sykes, an immunologist at Columbia University, has spent years using... Trump, acting...
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Researchers stretch the ability of 2D materials to change technology

... thin as a single layer of atoms have intrigued... as graphene in 2004. Some of these materials can be... in the next. advertisement Now, University of Rochester researchers...
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Fiber-optic probe can see molecular bonds

... easier. Now, engineers at the University of California, Riverside, have developed a... by Ruoxue Yan, an assistant professor of chemical and environmental engineering, and Ming Liu, an assistant professor...
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Engineers use graph networks to accurately predict properties of molecules and crystals

Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed... can accurately predict the properties of molecules and crystals. By... rapidly scan the nearly infinite universe of compounds to discover...
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In milestone trial, experimental drug delays type 1 diabetes

Millions of people worldwide have type... risk. iStock /Click_and_Photo Marking the culmination of a 33 year odyssey, scientists... in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found that 2 weeks of...
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Trump administration restricts fetal tissue research

... regulate the rest. The Department of Health and Human Services... working for the National Institutes of Health NIH to conduct... last year. HHS also said university scientists who want...