Biology & Life Sciences

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HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Ingfei Chen	Same But Not Equal A code within the genetic code explains why identical proteins are produced at varying speeds.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Trisha Gura	Teaching Genomics, Plainly Students at Franklin & Marshall College, searched databases of gene sequences, engineered bacteria to shuttle mutated genes into cells, and captured images of how those cells reacted to the alterations.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012	2012 Holiday Lectures on Science -- Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future In HHMI's 2012 Holiday Lectures on Science, three leading scientists will explore the history of life on Earth and the forces that have shaped, and will continue to shape, our ever-changing planet.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Megan Scudellari	In Living Color Vikas Gupta and Kenneth Poss created dozens of zebrafish with vibrantly colored cardiomyocytes and then examined the fish hearts at select moments between hatching and adulthood.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Nora Taranto	The Yin and Yang of Plant Defense A team of researchers led by HHMI-GBMF investigator Xinnian Dong has proposed a model to explain how salicylic acid controls both cell death at the site of infection and cell survival and immune activation in noninfected tissue.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012	Fifty International Students Get Support from HHMI Italian graduate student Elisa Araldi is one of 50 from 19 countries who were awarded HHMI International Student Research Fellowships.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Halleh B. Balch	Like a Chinese Finger Trap In neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, the needle-like fibers that accumulate in the brain are not the real damage-doers. The culprits are intermediate protein structures, called small amyloid oligomers, made of a few proteins that misfold and aggregate.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012	Medical Fellows Get a Chance to Try Research This past summer, 70 medical, dental, and veterinary students put their courses and rotations on hold to focus on laboratory research.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Nora Taranto	Wiring the Brain with CSF Research by HHMI investigator Bernardo Sabatini suggests that self-reinforcing loops of neural activity may drive the development of synapses in the basal ganglia, a region of the brain that uses sensory and social context to direct movement.
Chemistry World September 18, 2012 Harriet Brewerton	Colorful metal detection Scientists in China have developed a sensor that can indicate the presence of heavy metal ions in a sample with a simple color change by using aptamers. Aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA molecules.
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