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'Micro-boxes' of water used to study single molecules

...pplied Physics Letters. The NIST team creates the boxes by briefly shaking a mixture of water, the biomolecules to be studied, and a fluorocarbon medium. Water droplets form in the oily fluorocarbon and naturally encapsulate one to several biomolecules. The researchers then watch through a microscope whil...

Study finds 60 new genes controlled by DNA snippet

...on times throughout the human DNA blueprint. CArG boxes exert their influence over genes because they are ...eated by the Human Genome Project to find all CArG boxes that regulate genes. The sheer amount of information involved requires that such studies use high-po...

African amphibians make extreme parental sacrifice: The skin off their backs

...eir broods and put the animals into small, plastic boxes filled with soil to simulate natural nesting conditions. Then they observed and videotaped interactions between young and their mothers. "We observed eight episodes of skin feeding by different young from five different broods," Nussbaum said. "In ...

Supercomputer Dedicated To Bioengineering, Computational Biology Installed

...nts. Within a few days of unpacking more than 400 boxes containing the Dell nodes, bioengineering researchers this week had modeled how electrical impulses trigger contractions in the heart of a pig. ...

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