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Biochemists identify new genetic code repair tool

Clemson University researchers recently reported finding a new class of DNA repair-makers.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Bionic bacteria may help fight disease and global warming

A strain of genetically enhanced bacteria developed by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies may pave the way for new synthetic drugs and new ways of manufacturing medicines and biofuels, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists expand knowledge of cell process involved in many diseases

As part of a joint research effort with the University of Michigan, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have for the first time defined the structure of one of the cell's most basic engines, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Model suggests how life's code emerged from primordial soup

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1953, Stanley Miller filled two flasks with chemicals assumed to be present on the primitive Earth, connected the flasks with rubber tubes and introduced some electrical sparks as a stand-in for lightning. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 15




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Cutting our carbon footprint

Roofing materials that double as solar panels and can also moderate the temperature of buildings are among the next-generation building products being developed at UNSW.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created 17 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Building a 'blind-friendly' Internet

Rakesh Babu demonstrates how a blind person uses the Internet.

Technology / Internet

created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Writing a new code for life?

On "Star Trek, the aliens often look so human that crew members fall in love with them. But in real life, scientists in the field known as astrobiology can't be sure alien life would even be carbon-based like us, or use DNA ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created 11 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Scientists discover molecular secrets of 2,000-year-old Chinese herbal remedy

For roughly two thousand years, Chinese herbalists have treated Malaria using a root extract, commonly known as Chang Shan, from a type of hydrangea that grows in Tibet and Nepal. More recent studies suggest that halofuginone, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 12, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Google launches Chrome browser for Android smartphones

With more and more people connecting to the Internet through a phone or a tablet instead of a PC, Google Inc. is bringing its fast-growing browser, Chrome, to the newest Android-powered mobile devices.

Technology / Software

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

PML's Pernstich develops open-source software to automate test equipment

A free, easily customizable software program for automating test equipment via GPIB or RS232 bus may sound too good to be true, especially for smaller companies, graduate students, and hobbyists or for day-to-day ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life

(AP) -- Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker. For most people, that word means something malicious - shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Zuckerberg describes 'The Hacker Way' at Facebook

In Facebook's regulatory filing for an initial public offering of stock, CEO Mark Zuckerberg included a letter to potential investors about the company's thinking. He described it as a social mission to make ...

Technology / Business

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

From opening thunder to closing whimper

Thanks to lightning-fast software from the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T), if a truck bomb was discovered in Lower Manhattan we will now be able to predict the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Metabolic errors can spell doom for DNA

Many critical cell functions depend on a class of molecules called purines, which form half of the building blocks of DNA and RNA, and are a major component of the chemicals that store a cell’s energy. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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