Biology & Life Sciences

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HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams	The Buzz on Bee Viruses Technology designed for human viruses is helping solve a bee riddle.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Jennifer Michalowski	Memory Cells at the Ready Special neurons give rodents a leg up when facing unfamiliar territory.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Janelle Weaver	Leading a Double Life with CSF Lucky for us, the organs in our bodies come with a self-repair kit. Though regularly bombarded by harmful bacteria, more often than not they manage to heal themselves. How this happens has puzzled scientists, but now there may be some answers.
Chemistry World August 2, 2011 Kate McAlpine	Hacking into chemical cell phone calls US researchers have made a nanodevice that can eavesdrop on a cell's mutterings, and they say it could be adapted to listen in on conversations between cells.
Chemistry World August 2, 2011 Phillip Broadwith	Protein synthesis hijacked to turn out cyclic peptides Japanese researchers have developed a way of reprogramming the genetic code and using bacteria to make and screen huge libraries of cyclic peptides using unnatural amino acids.
Chemistry World August 2011	Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe highlights the less visible pitfalls on the road to a new drug
Chemistry World July 28, 2011 Carol Stanier	Spotlight on Polymerisation to Repair Damaged Faces To repair scarred facial tissue, US scientists have developed a minimally invasive repair method combining natural and synthetic materials to form a tissue scaffold to help the body heal itself.
Chemistry World July 25, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Glucose Meter Adapted to Detect a Range of Targets A common test used worldwide by millions of people with diabetes could be adapted to detect and measure almost any target molecule including drugs, environmental toxins and disease markers.
Chemistry World July 22, 2011 Kate McAlpine	Self-assembling DNA structures carve out a niche Researchers have used DNA nanostructures to create raised ridges and tiny trenches in silicon dioxide using an etching technique.
Chemistry World July 21, 2011 James Mitchell Crow	Sequencing Chip Decodes DNA Proton by Proton Technology that can directly detect the chemical reaction as a single nucleotide adds to the end of a growing strand of DNA is about to slash the cost of genome sequencing, its inventors say.
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