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Evidence of First Virus That Infects Both Plants and Humans
Tree Afflicted With Chestnut BlightJames Bowe, via Flickr.comDon't worry. Far as anyone knows, blight still isn't contagious for humans.From rabies to bird flu to HIV, diseases passing from animals to...
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Gene-Silencing Inhaler Shows First Success Preventing Human Disease
RSVCDC/Dr. Craig LyerlaQuiet down, you virusesRNA interference (RNAi) has steadily advanced the promise of using gene silencing to block the spread of viruses or even cancer. Now the technique has...
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Steven Chu Breaks Record for Highest-Resolution Optical Imaging, Cracking...
Energy Secretary and National Genius Steven ChuStanford University, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryLeft: Chu considers getting scientific. Middle: Dubious Chu. Right: Chu dropping some serious...
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Making the Connections: Reconstructing Biosystems From the Outside In
Flow StateCourtesy Van Wedeen/Ruopeng Wang at Martinos Center/MGH/Harvard/MIT/Patric Hagmann/CHUV/EPFLResearchers use diffusion-spectrum MRI to generate images of the brain's complex system of neural...
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New Fluorescent 'Spinach' Molecule Illuminates Inner Workings of RNA
Spinach RNAPaige et. al/© Science/AAASImages of Spinach RNA expressed in E. coli. Colonies expressing the control molecule exhibited no fluorescence, but colonies expressing the Spinach molecule were...
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New Drug Can Treat Almost Any Viral Infection By Killing the Body's Infected...
Virus TherapyMITIn the left set, rhinovirus (the common cold virus) kills untreated human cells (lower left), whereas DRACO has no toxicity in uninfected cells (upper right) and cures an infected cell...
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Why Crunching Data For Science Is the Future of Game-Playing
Learning FolditFolditThis screen depicts the fireworks display you get when solving a puzzle challenge in Foldit's 32-puzzle demo. The majority of players who try Foldit give up on the first day, said...
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Genetic Bar Code Search Can Use RNA to Pick Out Individuals From Huge Gene Pools
RNAWikipediaDNA databases are highly protected resources, because they contain the most detailed fingerprint that can be used to identify a person — from genetic predisposition to cancer, to paternity...
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Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From? And How Can We Stop It?
The Next ThreatGary Ombler/Getty ImagesThis article is adapted from David Quammen's new book, Spillover_, available now. You can purchase it here._In June 2008, a Dutch woman named Astrid Joosten left...
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A Cellular Atlas Of The Human Body
Neurons are one of at least several hundred cell typesWei-Chung et al via Wikimedia CommonsIf science textbooks are to be believed, you have about 200 different types of cells in your body. But several...
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Brilliant 10: Kathryn Whitehead Designs Drugs To Wipe Out Disease
Kathryn WhiteheadAlexander WellsThe human body is difficult territory to conquer, even for medicine: Many drugs have to enter the bloodstream, bypass the immune system, and arrive at a precise location...
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Genetic Sequencing Gets Boost From A New Proofreading Enzyme
Health Error prone 3-billion-year-old process fixed Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have created a new enzyme which can produce high fidelity RNA sequences. Typically reverse...
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Octopuses can basically edit their own genes on the fly
Animals Crazy levels of RNA tinkering could explain how cephalopods got so smart DNA translates into RNA, which tells the cell which proteins to produce. But that's not always the case. Read on:…
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Making the Connections: Reconstructing Biosystems From the Outside In
Science The human genome was just the start In 2003, scientists with the Human Genome Project announced the completion of their 13-year effort to identify the three billion base pairs that form the...
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New Fluorescent 'Spinach' Molecule Illuminates Inner Workings of RNA
Science Greens are good for you The newest optical techniques are making cell biology a little clearer, but it’s still a murky business, watching cells work. A new technique that illuminates RNA —...
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New Drug Can Treat Almost Any Viral Infection By Killing the Body's Infected...
Science A new broad-spectrum treatment for viruses could be as effective as antibiotics fighting bacteria, MIT researchers report. The method uses cells’ own defense systems to… A new broad-spectrum...
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Why Crunching Data For Science Is the Future of Game-Playing
Gadgets Gamers with a penchant for puzzles are having fun answering the most tedious questions in science The other night I wanted to kill some time before "30 Rock" started, so I sat down and tried...
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Genetic Bar Code Search Can Use RNA to Pick Out Individuals From Huge Gene Pools
Science Even without a DNA sample DNA databases are highly protected resources, because they contain the most detailed fingerprint that can be used to identify a person — from genetic predisposition...
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Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From? And How Can We Stop It?
Science Out of the wild This article is adapted from David Quammen's new book, Spillover_, available now. You can purchase it here._ In June 2008, a Dutch woman named Astrid Joosten left the…
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A Cellular Atlas Of The Human Body
Health New RNA sequencing techniques are revealing the unknown secrets of our cells If science textbooks are to be believed, you have about 200 different types of cells in your body. But several teams...
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