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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. |
Chemistry World October 2, 2006 Bea Perks |
RNAi Pioneers Win Nobel Prize for Medicine Molecular biologists Andrew Fire and Craig Mello have been awarded this year's Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of RNA interference. |
Reactive Reports October 2006 David Bradley |
RNA Chemistry Zips Up Nobel Prize If Watson and Crick unlocked the mystery of DNA's structure, then Stanford University's Roger Kornberg and his team unzipped the secret of how the cell converts DNA into the RNA needed to make proteins. |
Chemistry World November 2009 |
Biology's Nobel molecule factory Three scientists who revealed the structure and workings of the ribosome have shared the 2009 Nobel prize in chemistry. |
Chemistry World November 16, 2006 Simon Hadlington |
Gene-Reading Enzyme Catapulted by Scrunch Power Two teams of researchers have solved a conundrum that has baffled molecular biologists for 20 years -- how the enzyme responsible for `reading' genes can release itself from the portion of DNA to which it initially binds extremely tightly. |
Chemistry World October 7, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
DNA repair research takes the 2015 chemistry Nobel The 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for unraveling how cells deal with DNA damage. |
The Motley Fool October 5, 2006 Ralph Casale |
RNAi: Nobel Prize-Winning Biotechnology While drugs based on RNAi knockdown technology may have the potential to become the next big thing in biotechnology, they are still a long way from becoming FDA-approved marketable entities. But it's never too soon to start keeping an eye on the future. Investors, take note. |
Chemistry World October 7, 2009 Sarah Houlton |
Chemistry of life wins Nobel This year's chemistry Nobel prize has been awarded to scientists working on the chemistry of life - the translation of DNA information into proteins by the ribosome. |
Chemistry World July 17, 2012 Simon Perks |
Synthetic nanozymes silence hepatitis C Researchers at the University of Florida, US, have discovered that an artificial nanoparticle complex, known as a nanozyme, can help to treat viral infections by 'shutting off' their genetic material. |
Chemistry World November 20, 2013 Patrick Walter |
Two-time chemistry Nobelist Fred Sanger dies Double chemistry Nobel laureate Frederick Sanger died yesterday at the age of 95. The Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, where he spent much of his research career confirmed his death this morning. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Lucks & Arkin |
Synthetic Biology's Hunt for the Genetic Transistor How genetic circuits will unlock the true potential of bioengineering |
Chemistry World November 2009 Bibiana Campos-Seijo |
Editorial: Ringing in the Nobels This year the chemistry prize seems to have once again caused a bit of a commotion. The criticism? Well, some in the scientific community have suggested that the research had too strong a biological focus. |
Chemistry World January 2012 |
DNA motors on With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success |
Chemistry World May 2008 Philip Ball i |
Pulling our strings There is much more to DNA than that elegant double helix. The author explores the twists and tangles of chromatin. |
Chemistry World March 15, 2007 Henry Nicholls |
The Mother of All Enzymes Scientists have uncovered the three-dimensional structure of what might be biology's first enzyme. This sheds light on the chemistry at a key moment in the origin of life, they argue. |
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? |
Scientific American June 2005 JR Minkel |
RNA to the Rescue The spectacular discovery that a species of plant can summon up genes its parents have lost highlights biologists' increasing recognition of RNA as a more versatile and important molecule in its own right. |
Chemistry World October 31, 2008 Manisha Lalloo |
DNA-rewinding protein discovered US scientists have found an enzyme that rewinds sections of DNA whose strands have mistakenly come apart. |
Chemistry World October 7, 2015 |
Live blog: Unravelling DNA repair mechanisms takes chemistry Nobel Our live blog explains the vital statistics of the Nobel chemistry prize and the countdown to the award announcement. |
Chemistry World April 19, 2012 Andy Extance |
Polymers perform non-DNA evolution Scientists have found that six polymer alternatives to DNA can pass on genetic information, and have evolved one type to specifically bind target molecules. |
Chemistry World October 19, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
The house that DNA built The 2015 chemistry Nobel prize was awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for DNA repair. |
Chemistry World January 11, 2008 John Bonner |
DNA Nanoparticles Detect Gene Expression US scientists have made nanoparticles from DNA that they say could be used to identify the genes being expressed in a single cell. |
Chemistry World January 31, 2008 John Bonner |
RNAi Scores Victory Against Crohn's Disease in Mice Thousands of people suffering from the debilitating gut condition Crohn's disease could experience relief from their symptoms through a technique that blocks production of a key protein in the inflammation process. |
Chemistry World September 23, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Direct route to RNA sequences Scientists in the US appear to have cracked a major problem in molecular biology: how to sequence single molecules of RNA directly. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C. P. Williams |
Living Chemistry Biologists understand better what chemists can bring to the table. And chemists understand better the questions that biologists really care about. This has led to a bigger impact of chemists on biological problems. |
Chemistry World February 2011 |
My hero: The greatest influences of chemistry Nobel laureates Aaron Ciechanover, who won the 2004 Nobel prize in chemistry with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, talks about Charles Darwin. |
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Sarah C.P. Williams |
Cellular Search Engine Craig Mello's lab has now uncovered the reason piRNA molecules are so ubiquitous and exist in so many forms in C. elegans: so they can pair with essentially any genetic sequence they encounter during their endless scanning. |
Chemistry World February 27, 2006 Michael Gross |
A DNA Switch for RNA Folding Researchers have equipped a large RNA domain with a DNA switch, which they say can fold or unfold the RNA molecule at will. |
Chemistry World March 2011 |
60 years of innovation To celebrate the international year of chemistry, James Mitchell Crow looks back at some of the discoveries and developments made by chemists over the past six decades |
Bio-IT World October 2006 |
Briefs Kovac Joins Burrill... RNAi Nobel Prize... Hooray for Hood... ArQule Next... Initiative Accelerated... |
Technology Research News May 5, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
DNA Bot Targets Cancer Researchers from Israel have constructed a molecular-size computer that is programmed to find signs of cancer cells, and when they are present, dispense DNA molecules designed to eradicate those cells. |
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
DNA in nanotubes sorts molecules Researchers have made a synthetic membrane that recognizes certain biochemical molecules and allows them to pass through. The method could be used to make biological sensors like those needed for genetics research, and to sort biological molecules, |
Technology Research News June 29, 2005 |
Self-assembly: the natural way to make things In biology, there are a few different ways DNA molecules can be replicated and combined. |
Chemistry World October 9, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Computational chemists take Nobel prize The 2013 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Martin Karplus of Harvard University, US, Michael Levitt of Stanford University, US, and Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California, US, for "the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems." |
Chemistry World April 7, 2011 Laura Howes |
Long chains give new life to RNA world hypothesis The so-called RNA world hypothesis has gained fresh momentum with the synthesis of the longest lab grown RNA strands made using an enzyme that is itself made of RNA, an 'RNAzyme'. |
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Sarah C. P. Williams |
Force Factor In the context of cells, forces are required to move molecules. Quantifying these forces gives scientists a way to compare and contrast different molecular motors. |
Technology Research News April 23, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
DNA motor keeps cranking Researchers have been making DNA perform all sorts of shape-changing tricks in recent years, but the need to add pieces of DNA at every step has made it a bit of a stretch to call these molecules motors. A method that keeps the process humming changes things. |
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Sarah C.P. Williams |
Sounding the Alarm Details on how cells detect and respond to foreign DNA may provide clues to autoimmune diseases. |
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Mitzi Baker |
When Worlds Collide The right time and place led to a new RNAi-like pathway in bacteria for biochemist Jennifer Doudna and geobiologist Jill Banfield. |
Chemistry World August 2010 |
Let's get physical The field of physical chemistry is booming, as more and more scientists seek to understand their work on a molecular level |
Technology Research News August 22, 2005 |
DNA Technologies The versatile DNA molecule has proven to be a powerful technological building block. Researchers have developed ways of combining DNA molecules that allow them to carry out computations in test tubes and create two-dimensional patterns and three-dimensional structures at the nanoscale. |
Chemistry World January 8, 2012 David Bradley |
The TNA world that came before the RNA one Once it was recognised that DNA is key to the molecular self-replication that underpins life, chemists have sought to understand the origins of this double-helical molecule in that primordial age. |
Chemistry World September 9, 2011 Sean Milmo |
King's College resurrects chemistry department King's College London is reopening its department of chemistry in 2012, eight years after it was closed due in part to a sharp drop in the popularity of the subject. |
Chemistry World May 15, 2006 Jon Evans |
Selective DNA Crystals A molecular biologist has developed a molecular sieve using a DNA crystal with nanoscale channels. |
Managed Care November 2003 Thomas Morrow |
Making Sense of Antisense and Interference Treatments that interfere with protein synthesis at the cellular level will soon be debated in medical policy committee meetings. |
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. |
Chemistry World February 1, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Genetic Code Read Directly From RNA Scientists have directly read the genetic code from a single strand of RNA for the first time, using a combination of powerful microscopes and laser spectroscopy techniques. |
Chemistry World December 20, 2011 Laura Howes |
Cutting edge chemistry in 2011 With the help of an expert panel of journal editors Chemistry World reviews the ground breaking research and important trends in this year's crop of chemical science papers. |
Chemistry World September 2009 |
Living the Nobel life In Lindau, Germany, groups of Nobel prize winners are invited to meet with a new generation of young scientists. This year was the chemists' turn and the theme of this year's event was renewable energy and climate change |
Chemistry World January 28, 2011 David Barden |
Chips make short work of RNA synthesis Chinese scientists have developed a much easier way to make the short strands of RNA that are an essential tool in understanding what genes do. |