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HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams	Switching Plants' Reproductive Methods The shipments of seeds that farms rely on at the beginning of each growing season could soon be a relic of the past. Scientists have discovered how to coax plants to clone themselves by altering their reproductive methods.
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Chemistry World November 2006 Bea Perks	Call That Chemistry? This year's Nobel prize in chemistry was a tour de force for crystallography, underscoring the vital role chemistry plays across the sciences.
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Technology Research News March 12, 2003	RNA forms nanomotor Researchers from Purdue University have constructed a tiny motor from DNA and RNA molecules. The device, fueled by ATP, which powers our own movements, could eventually power nanomachines.
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Chemistry World October 4, 2006 Bea Perks	Good Year for RNA Roger Kornberg, professor of structural biology at Stanford University, has been awarded the 2006 Nobel prize in chemistry for his work on the molecular basis of transcription.
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Scientific American November 2007 Ed Regis	The Forgotten Code Cracker In the 1960s Marshall W. Nirenberg deciphered the genetic code, the combination of the A, T, G and C nucleotides that specify amino acids. So why do people think that Francis Crick did it?
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Scientific American June 2009 Melinda Wenner	Genetic Copy Variations and Disease A new sense for how variable numbers of genes cause disease.
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Chemistry World October 8, 2013 Hayley Birch	RNA mimic destined for synthetic genome US scientists have taken another step towards the goal of creating self-replicating molecules like those thought to have spawned life on Earth. The researchers made RNA-like polymers capable of copying short sections of genetic code that they suggest could act as genomes in synthetic cells.
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HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams	Scientists Track Down Genetic Mutations In Record Time Scanning the human genome for a single disease-causing mutation is like taking a copy of War and Peace in a foreign language and searching for one misspelled word
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HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010	Vicki Chandler: Plants Contribute Basic Biological Lessons to Science" Vicki Chandler's research on how plants regulate their genes may ultimately inform studies of human diseases. She's leading the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's partnership with HHMI to support more of this kind of fundamental plant science.
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Salon.com December 19, 2000 Carolyn McConnell	"The Century of the Gene" by Evelyn Fox Keller A new book argues that there may be no such thing as a gene. At least, it has proved very difficult to isolate a discrete physical item that can do the work our notion of the gene does...
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Smithsonian October 2006 Steve Olson	Neanderthal Man Svante Paabo has probed the DNA of Egyptian mummies and extinct animals. Now he hopes to learn more about what makes us tick by decoding the DNA of our evolutionary cousins.
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