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Customized RNA snippets delivered by a harmless virus could someday provide a new way to combat the hepatitis B virus.Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Found in: Body & Brain, Genes & Cells and Molecules
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When inherited from mom, a gene linked to obesity and diabetes interferes with blood sugar metabolism.Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Found in: Body & Brain and Genes & Cells
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A new 3-D microscopy technique offers unprecedented views of cells.Published: Thursday, June 5th, 2008Found in: Genes & Cells and Life -
Spheres of fat suggest a way that life on Earth could have gotten started.Published: July 5th, 2008; Vol.174 #1Found in: Life and Molecules
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By watching bacteria evolve in the lab for 20 years, researchers show that evolution may be rather capricious.Published: Monday, June 2nd, 2008Found in: Life
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In a step toward someday making brain-controlled prosthetic arms for people, scientists have trained monkeys to control a robotic arm with their thoughts. Click on the image to read the story and see the video.Published: June 21st, 2008; Vol.173 #19Found in: Behavior, Body & Brain and Life -
Using software that mimics neural networks, researchers have found new mosquito repellents that last longer than commercially available repellent.Published: Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Found in: Molecules -
Unsuspected, ever-changing variation among stem cells in bone marrow helps determine the development path the cells will follow during differentiation.Published: Wednesday, May 21st, 2008Found in: Biology, Biomedicine and Genes & Cells
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Bacteria that can "flip pancakes" with their DNA are the first microbes engineered to be living computers.Published: Monday, May 19th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine, Molecules and Technology -
Discovering how bacteria defend themselves from foreign DNA might improve techniques for using microbes as little factories to make human proteins.Published: Thursday, May 15th, 2008Found in: Life
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The complexity of humans may lie not in genes but in the web of interactions among the proteins they make.Published: June 7th, 2008; Vol.173 #18Found in: Biology and Genes & Cells
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An improved way to make the sticky protein that mussels use to cling to underwater rocks could lead to better cardiac stents.Published: Friday, May 9th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine -
Bacteria are smarter than you might think. Single-celled microbes can learn to predict changes in their environments and prepare themselves.Published: Thursday, May 8th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine
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An inexpensive way to make ethanol from wood chips reduces net greenhouse gas emissions as much as more costly methods.Published: Friday, May 2nd, 2008Found in: Environment
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Using plants to mass produce proteins for vaccines and other purposes may soon be possible without genetically engineering whole plants.Published: Wednesday, April 30th, 2008Found in: Biology and Genes & Cells
