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NEWS May 3 2002

Molecular Biology Times Two

Rebecca and Susan Kahane are identical twins with nearly identical interests: Field hockey, helping children, karate, molecular biology. Molecular biology may sound like an extraordinary pursuit for...

NEWS Jul 1 2000

Molecular Biology on Wheels

Like many Americans, 39-year-old Bill Welch used to think that schools are not doing their job. Teachers complain too much, he said, and they're always asking for more money, even though the school...

NEWS Jun 24 1999

Molecular Biologists Prune Branches from the Animal Family Tree

Earthworms are kin to lobsters and flatworms are cousins of roundworms. These kinds of relationships have been drawn over the years by zoologists who painstakingly constructed evolutionary trees...

NEWS Sep 3 2004

Grampas moleculares matan al cáncer

Investigadores del Instituto Médico Howard Hughes (HHMI) han podido diseñar y mejorar un nuevo tipo de compuesto que mata al cáncer realizando cirugía molecular para estabilizar una molécula de modo...

NEWS Sep 4 2017

New Fluorescent Dyes Could Advance Biological Imaging

With a new technique to craft a spectrum of glowing dyes, chemists are no longer chasing rainbows. Swapping out specific chemical building blocks in fluorescent molecules called rhodamines can...

NEWS Apr 21 2000

Gene Mutation Upsets Mammalian Biological Clock

Researchers have pinpointed the cause of a genetic mutation that switches a hamster's biological clock to a 20-hour day from the normal 24-hour day. In the April 21, 2000, issue of the journal...

NEWS Feb 25 2007

Watching a Biological Jigsaw Puzzle Come Together

Scientists have recorded the action involved in assembling telomerase, an enzyme used by cells to protect their genes during the potentially dangerous process of DNA replication. Using a...

NEWS Mar 20 2002

HHMI Awards $2 Million to European Molecular Biology Organization

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded $2 million to the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) to help launch the careers of young scientists in the Czech Republic, Hungary...

NEWS Sep 18 2002

Biology for Engineers, Engineering for Biologists

Mary Lidstrom may be a biologist by training, but she is a systems engineer by inclination. It was a lesson she learned about herself more than 20 years ago while trying to bring a more quantitative...

NEWS May 26 2009

Fire Ants Invade High School Biology Classes

Susan Bender constantly tries new tricks to get her high school biology students hooked on science. She requires the seniors in her research class at Jim Hill High School in urban Jackson,...

NEWS Jun 18 2001

Biology to Go

Lupe Quinones looks more than a little skeptical as she gingerly pokes at the owl pellet in front of her. Lupe's reluctance to touch the regurgitated lump of undigestable food doesn't bother Mobile...

NEWS Nov 30 2006

Potent Biology: Stem Cells, Cloning, and Regeneration

A Live Webcast about Stem Cell Research November 30-December 1, 2006 On Thursday and Friday, November 30 and December 1, 2006, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) invites you to watch a live...

NEWS Nov 27 2000

Clockwork Genes: Holiday Lectures Explore the Biological Basis of Circadian Rhythms

Teenagers tend to have a harder time functioning in the morning than their parents do. Long flights can cause jet lag. Both phenomena are related to "biological clocks," molecular mechanisms that...

NEWS Jan 14 2007

Zooming in on a Molecular Relay

In the cellular milieu, a protein is only as good as the tags it wears. If a protein is flashing a specific type of tag, it is marked for destruction, whereas another tag might signal a green-light...

NEWS Dec 26 2015

Made in the Shade: How Plants Can Beat the Competition

It’s a jungle out there for a plant. If its neighbors grow faster than it does, they will block the sunlight the plant needs to make food and produce seeds. Howard Hughes Medical Institute (...

NEWS Jul 9 2007

Probing Biology’s Dark Matter

A typical human mouth teems with as many as 700 different species of microbes. A handful of these have been specifically implicated in promoting gum disease, dental cavities, and bad breath, but for...

NEWS Feb 6 2006

A New Way of Looking at Molecular Motors

An innovative method of categorizing myosin—one of three molecular “motors” that produce movement within the cells of the body—has dramatically increased the amount of information available about...

NEWS Apr 10 1998

Sponge Toxin Halts Molecular Motor

An ocean-dwelling sponge may provide a tool for understanding the molecular motors that power cell division and other intracellular transport processes, say researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical...

NEWS May 15 2006

Chemical Biology Suggests New Way to Thwart Brain Cancer

Taking advantage of a large assortment of chemical inhibitors produced by the pharmaceutical industry as potential drugs, Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have synthesized and...

NEWS Dec 2 2004

Preparing Biology Undergrads to be Problem Solvers

If today's undergraduates are going to become researchers who solve the important biomedical problems of tomorrow, interdisciplinary thinking must be cultivated at the undergraduate level, says...

NEWS Nov 23 2020

Recording the Symphony of Cellular Signals That Drive Biology

A new imaging technology lets scientists spy on the flurry of messages passed within cells as they do . . . potentially everything. Until now, most scientists could visualize only one or two of...

NEWS Nov 25 2005

Regenerating Worms Help Elucidate Stem Cell Biology

Using a tiny flatworm best known for its extraordinary ability to regenerate lost tissue, researchers have identified a gene that controls the ability of stem cells to differentiate into specialized...

NEWS Jul 8 2005

Structure of Biological "Transistor" Detailed in Higher Organisms

Researchers are unveiling the first detailed view of the architecture of a natural “transistor” that ensures the proper flow of potassium ions in cells. The research group, which had...

NEWS May 23 2017

Ronald Vale Awarded Shaw Prize

Ronald Vale, a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator at the University of California, San Francisco, has won the Shaw Prize in Life Sciences and Medicine, the Shaw Prize Foundation announced May 23...

NEWS Jul 8 2005

Se detalla la estructura de transistor biológico de organismos superiores

Unos investigadores están revelando la primera imagen detallada de la arquitectura de un “transistor” natural que asegura el flujo apropiado de iones potasio de las células. El grupo de...

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HHMI Awards $2 Million to European Molecular Biology Organization

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Probing Biology’s Dark Matter

A New Way of Looking at Molecular Motors

Sponge Toxin Halts Molecular Motor

Chemical Biology Suggests New Way to Thwart Brain Cancer

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Recording the Symphony of Cellular Signals That Drive Biology

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Structure of Biological "Transistor" Detailed in Higher Organisms

Ronald Vale Awarded Shaw Prize

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Watching a Biological Jigsaw Puzzle Come Together

HHMI Awards $2 Million to European Molecular Biology Organization

Biology for Engineers, Engineering for Biologists

Fire Ants Invade High School Biology Classes

Biology to Go

Potent Biology: Stem Cells, Cloning, and Regeneration

Clockwork Genes: Holiday Lectures Explore the Biological Basis of Circadian Rhythms

Zooming in on a Molecular Relay

Made in the Shade: How Plants Can Beat the Competition

Probing Biology’s Dark Matter

A New Way of Looking at Molecular Motors

Sponge Toxin Halts Molecular Motor

Chemical Biology Suggests New Way to Thwart Brain Cancer

Preparing Biology Undergrads to be Problem Solvers

Recording the Symphony of Cellular Signals That Drive Biology

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Structure of Biological "Transistor" Detailed in Higher Organisms

Ronald Vale Awarded Shaw Prize

Se detalla la estructura de transistor biológico de organismos superiores

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