Biology & Life Sciences

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HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams	Enforcing Order Changing the spatial arrangement of molecules in a cell can alter their functions.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011	Viral Outbreak: The Science of Emerging Disease Almost 200 high school students from across the Washington, D.C., area learned firsthand how scientists study the emergence and spread of these and other deadly viruses in December at the 2010 Holiday Lectures on Science.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011	New International Competition for Early Career Scientists The biomedical competition is aimed at helping up to 35 early career scientists establish independent research programs. Scientists trained in the United States who are now running a lab in any eligible country may apply.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams	Forgetting Fear A compound given at just the right time may make mice forget to be afraid.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams	Releasing the Brakes on Cell Fate Converting one cell type directly into another is a kind of modern-day alchemy, an ultimate goal in biological research. But unlike turning base metals into gold, changing a cell's identity is feasible, new research shows.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams	Warming Malaria Climate change is expanding the disease-causing pathogen's comfort zone.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Kendall Powell	The Next Generation The postdoctoral fellowship for biologists is a high-pressure series of challenges to join the best lab after graduate school, execute and publish stellar science, and then secure a full-time position afterward.
Chemistry World January 30, 2011 Mike Brown	Electrons charge down DNA molecular wire US researchers have shown for the first time that a 34nm long DNA strand can be used as a molecular wire to conduct electricity.
Chemistry World January 30, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Nanotubes protect brain tissue from stroke damage Researchers in Korea and the US have shown that modified carbon nanotubes can protect brain tissue from the damage caused by ischaemic stroke, where the blood supply to the brain is interrupted.
Chemistry World January 28, 2011 David Barden	Chips make short work of RNA synthesis Chinese scientists have developed a much easier way to make the short strands of RNA that are an essential tool in understanding what genes do.
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