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Avoiding Virus Dangers in \'Domesticating\' Wild Plants for Biofuel Use
20.2.2013 | Press monitoring
In our ongoing quest for alternative energy sources, researchers are looking more to plants that grow in the wild for use in biofuels ...
Engineering cells for more efficient biofuel production
19.2.2013 | Press monitoring
In the search for renewable alternatives to gasoline, heavy alcohols such as isobutanol are promising candidates ...
Gene That Suppresses Herpesviruses Discovered
18.2.2013 | Press monitoring
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) hide within the worldwide human population. While dormant ...
Light-Emitting Bioprobe Fits in a Single Cell
15.2.2013 | Press monitoring
If engineers at Stanford have their way, biological research may soon be transformed by a new class of light-emitting probes small enough ...
Stem Cell Breakthrough Could Lead to New Bone Repair Therapies On Nanoscale Surfaces
14.2.2013 | Press monitoring
Scientists at the University of Southampton have created a new method to generate bone cells which could lead to revolutionary bone repair therapies ...
Combining Synthetic, Natural Toxins Could Disarm Cancer, Drug-Resistant Bacteria
13.2.2013 | Press monitoring
Cancer researchers from Rice University suggest that a new human-made drug that's already proven effective at killing cancer and drug-resistant bacteria ...
Cell Circuits Remember Their History
12.2.2013 | Press monitoring
MIT engineers have created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that not only perform logic functions, but also remember the results ...
Liver cancer survival time tripled by virus
11.2.2013 | Press monitoring
The virus used in the vaccine that helped eradicate smallpox is now working its magic on liver cancer.
\'Zombie\' Cells May Outperform Live Ones as Catalysts and Conductors
8.2.2013 | Press monitoring
"Zombie" mammalian cells that may function better after they die have been created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM).
Sequencing hundreds of chloroplast genomes now possible
7.2.2013 | Press monitoring
Researchers at the University of Florida and Oberlin College have developed a sequencing method that will allow potentially hundreds of plant chloroplast genomes to be sequenced at once, facilitating studies of molecular biology and evolution in plants.
