Archive for Biology
Comparing Proteins at a Glance
A revolutionary X-ray analytical technique enables researchers at a glance to identify structural similarities and differences between multiple proteins under a variety of conditions and has already been used to gain valuable new insight into a prime protein target for cancer chemotherapy.
Predictability: The Brass Ring For Synthetic Biology
DNA sequences and statistical models have been unveiled that greatly increase the reliability and precision by which microbes can be engineered.
Reading the Human Genome
Berkeley Lab researchers have achieved a major advance in understanding how genetic information is transcribed from DNA to RNA by providing the first step-by-step look at the biomolecular machinery that reads the human genome.
A Dual Look at Photosystem II Using the World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser
Artificial photosynthesis and other new technologies based on
metalloenzyme catalysis will benefit from a technique for simultaneously collecting both diffraction and spectroscopy data demonstrated by Berkeley Lab and SLAC researchers at the world’s most powerful X-ray laser.
How Cilia Get Organized
Cilia are critical to good health and a newly discovered cilia partitioning system might be the key
Berkeley Lab Researchers Find New Clue to Clinical Trial Failures of MMP Cancer Therapies
Failure of Highly Touted MMP Cancer Therapies May Be Explained
New Details on the Molecular Machinery of Cancer
New details into the activation of a cell surface protein that has been strongly linked to a large number of cancers and is a major target of cancer therapies have been reported by Berkeley Lab researchers.


