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Chemistry World June 1, 2012 Derek Lowe	Peace, love and understanding You'd think that the chemists and biologists working in drug discovery would understand each other pretty well by now. You would be wrong about that.
Chemistry World April 12, 2012 Avtar Matharu	Renewable energy Biofuels as a subject is very diverse, spanning across several disciplines, scientific and non-scientific. James Speight has managed this challenge very well, by keeping focus on chemistry-related issues in the Biofuels Handbook.
Chemistry World May 28, 2012 Sarah Houlton	HDL drug class struggling after latest flop The failure of dalcetrapib, a drug from Roche designed to raise HDL, or 'good', cholesterol, has turned the spotlight again on such drugs.
Chemistry World May 21, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Rewritable DNA for digital data storage A rewritable memory storage module can form the basis of a digital memory system, scientists suggest, with the cell being able to 'record' transient changes in its internal chemistry.
Chemistry World May 15, 2012 James Mitchell Crow	Polymer gel squeezes and strains like an intestine Researchers have found that the oscillating chemical waves of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction are strong enough to carry a cargo, driving it along a length of smart polymer tubing using contractions - just like an intestine.
Fast Company June 2012 Daniel Krieger	Progress Report: How Wicab's BrainPort Technology Gives Sight To The Blind When blind people use the BrainPort, both the somatosensory cortex and the visual cortex, usually active when the eyes are used, process information sent through the tongue.
Chemistry World May 14, 2012 Josh Howgego	Powering up retinal prosthetics Scientists are reporting a futuristic design for retinal prostheses, which, in principle, would dramatically simplify the surgical procedure required to return sight to the blind.
National Defense June 2012 Eric Beidel	Team Studies How Soldier Loads Affect Perceptions Of Friends, Foes The UMass Amherst team wants to determine how the weight a soldier carries can affect reaction time, visual attention to critical details and the ability to tell the difference between friend and foe.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Nicole Kresge	Better Than a Straitjacket Scientist Sandhya P. Koushika devised an inexpensive, simple way to get the worms to pause so she can image cellular activity in the transparent creatures.
Chemistry World May 2012	Sniffing out explosives Can science compete with the sensitivity of a sniffer dog's nose? Emma Davies finds out
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Elise Lamar	Cells on the Move The biochemical signals that set cells on a journey are as diverse as the tissues they move through, but the engine is driven by constant remodeling of a protein network built from a box of cellular Legos.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Erin Peterson	Making Bigger Better University of Texas at Austin Freshman Research Initiative student Holli Duhon describes her research.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Sarah C. P. Williams	Opening the Floodgates Researchers are using exome sequencing -- zeroing in on the genes that encode proteins -- to explore the biology of certain diseases.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Sarah C. P. Williams	Stephen Quake: Innovative Thinking on Genetic Tests His ideas have already led to a blood test to tell a pregnant woman whether her fetus has Down syndrome. Now, the HHMI investigator is pushing further, to track the success of heart transplants and diagnose autoimmune diseases and allergies.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Janice Arenofsky	Snakes in Cyberspace Available through iTunes, TX Snakes generates especially brisk sales in the spring and summer months before snakes enter winter hibernation.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Sarah C.P. Williams	Hungry for Pleasure, Hungry for Food Our drive to eat can be based on physical hunger or desire. The two aren't as separate as once thought.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Ingfei Chen	An Artist's Eye At Stanford, Tirin Moore explores the neural circuitry that controls visual perception, a natural move, he says, from visual art.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 John Roach	Tiny Breathing Plant Mouths Keiko Torii was drawn from an interest in cancer research to a career in plant biology, but keeps her eyes open for relevance in both areas.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Maureen Salamon	Accidental Weatherman Raul Padron has become the accidental instigator of a network of weather stations and lightning detectors in Venezuela that have saved his own biology equipment and filled in the gaps of existing forecasting systems in the region.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Alexander Gelfand	Sticky-Fingered Culprit Researchers are discovering how the blood's wound-healing platelets have a hand in metastasis as well.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012	Wyszynski Joins HHMI as Vice President of Human Resources In her new role, Kathy Wyszynski oversees all aspects of human resources for the Institute, including human resources strategy, recruitment, benefits and compensation.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Nicole Kresge	Reduce and Recycle According to investigator Beth Levine, cells break down cellular junk to get extra energy, thereby cleaning house while you exercise.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012	Institute Launches New Investigator Competition These appointments will enable the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to strengthen its community of researchers and bring innovative approaches to the study of biological problems.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Nicole Kresge	Locating a Genetic Glitch A team of 41 scientists led by HHMI investigator Louis Ptacek has pinpointed the gene responsible for a rare disease that causes sudden, uncontrollable movements. The culprit is a little known protein that may be responsible for communication between neurons.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012	eLife Announces Editors, Launches Website The editorial board of eLife, the new journal for life and biomedical science launched with the support of HHMI, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust, announced the names of the more than 150 reviewing editors who will help deliver on the initiative's commitment to change peer review.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Nicole Kresge	Fighting Fluoride with CSF Bacteria, such as streptococcus, use an RNA switch to turn on genes that fight off toxic fluoride.
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Lucas Laursen	Snails in a Race for Biological Energy Harvesting Tinkering could tailor snails to spy for us
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Jennifer Michalowski	Enter the Samurai Unlike many scientists, Loren Looger doesn't frame his work around a central question. Instead, he has constructed a research program that branches into a broad range of biological investigations.
Chemistry World April 24, 2012 Rebecca Brodie	Two in one technique for biological imaging A UK based team has combined two methods into a new technique to investigate cell-substrate interactions in biomedical research.
Chemistry World April 20, 2012 Jennifer Newton	Nanocrystal probes mimic viruses to gain entry into cells Colloidal polymer vectors loaded with nanocrystal probes enter cells in the same way as a virus and can be used to track cells for therapies such as those based on stem cells
Fast Company May 2012 Rachel Z. Arndt	Anne Jones Is Creating Artificial Photosynthesis Jones and her postdoc, Angelo Cereda, are studying how to speed photosynthesis and make it more efficient, which could mean higher energy production and even lead to the invention of a new eco-friendly energy source.
Chemistry World April 19, 2012 Andy Extance	Polymers perform non-DNA evolution Scientists have found that six polymer alternatives to DNA can pass on genetic information, and have evolved one type to specifically bind target molecules.
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