Steven Chu Breaks Record for Highest-Resolution Optical Imaging, Cracking...
A Nature paper co-authored by Steven Chu, Nobel laureate and Energy Secretary of the United States, describes a big breakthrough in the science of the very small: a method of…
View ArticleMaking the Connections: Reconstructing Biosystems From the Outside In
In 2003, scientists with the Human Genome Project announced the completion of their 13-year effort to identify the three billion base pairs that form the chemical rungs in…
View ArticleNew Fluorescent 'Spinach' Molecule Illuminates Inner Workings of RNA
The newest optical techniques are making cell biology a little clearer, but it’s still a murky business, watching cells work. A new technique that illuminates RNA— the builder of proteins, making...
View ArticleNew Drug Can Treat Almost Any Viral Infection By Killing the Body's Infected...
A new broad-spectrum treatment for viruses could be as effective as antibiotics fighting bacteria, MIT researchers report. The method uses cells’ own defense systems to…
View ArticleWhy Crunching Data For Science Is the Future of Game-Playing
The other night I wanted to kill some time before "30 Rock" started, so I sat down and tried to build a strand of RNA. I clicked a yellow adenine avatar to turn it into…
View ArticleGenetic Bar Code Search Can Use RNA to Pick Out Individuals From Huge Gene Pools
DNA databases are highly protected resources, because they contain the most detailed fingerprint that can be used to identify a person — from genetic predisposition to cancer, to paternity tests, to...
View ArticleWhere Will The Next Pandemic Come From? And How Can We Stop It?
This article is adapted from David Quammen's new book, Spillover_, available now. You can purchase it here._ In June 2008, a Dutch woman named Astrid Joosten left the…
View ArticleA Cellular Atlas Of The Human Body
If science textbooks are to be believed, you have about 200 different types of cells in your body. But several teams of scientists are now debating that number, saying that the estimate is...
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Brilliant 10: Kathryn Whitehead Designs Drugs To Wipe Out Disease
Kathryn WhiteheadAlexander WellsThe human body is difficult territory to conquer, even for medicine: Many drugs have to enter the bloodstream, bypass the immune system, and arrive at a precise location...
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Genetic Sequencing Gets Boost From A New Proofreading Enzyme
Health Error prone 3-billion-year-old process fixed Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have created a new enzyme which can produce high fidelity RNA sequences. Typically reverse...
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