Metal claws and suction samplers can be rough on delicate deep sea creatures. So scientists have designed a gentle robot to scoop up the organisms they want to study.
Biologists have created a protein unlike any found in nature, with the power to toggle a cell’s functions on and off. The scientists linked the artificial proteins together into circuits and controlled the inner workings of yeast — and also implanted these proteins into lab-grown human cells.
A new breed of protein engineers is finding that the best way to create a molecule is to build it from scratch.
Salk Institute researchers have discovered a gene that determines whether roots grow deep or shallow in the soil. These findings, published July 11, 2019, will allow researchers to develop plants that can help combat climate change as part of Salk’s Harnessing Plants Initiative.
Every day in India, more than 4 million girls aged between seven and fourteen fail to show up at school. Why? In almost every case, the reason is simply their gender. As Husain puts it, for many families, “it’s rooted very much in a mindset where you believe that a goat is an asset and a girl is a liability.”
Citizen scientists, playing a special video game called Foldit, have been able to successfully design synthetic proteins. The research team, led by the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington School of Medicine, published its results recently in the journal Nature.
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance teams up with Living Goods and Last Mile Health to scale up immunization across Africa through digitally-empowered community health programs.
Joanne Chory is tackling climate change as a biologist: by engineering plants to grab much more carbon from the air than they already do.
The Bail Project
More and more women are being incarcerated in the US — before they’ve been found guilty of crimes. Here’s how the bail system hits women and what can be done.
One Acre Fund received a catalytic infusion through The Audacious Project. Andrew Youn shares how this has helped the organization expand its impact.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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