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Scripps Research scientists create new way to screen libraries of 10 million or more compounds
This is a serious problem, because there is enormous interest in identifying synthetic molecules that bind to proteins for applications in drug discovery,…
Ability to navigate may be linked to genes
Research tells us that human adults, toddlers, rats, chicks and even fish routinely and automatically accomplish this kind of “reorientation” by mentally…
'Peter Pan' apes never seem to learn selfishness
In fact, according to a pair of papers in the latest Current Biology, it looks like bonobos never seem to learn how not to share. Chimpanzees, by contrast, are…
Virus pulls bait and switch on insect vectors
“The virus improves the cues that insects use to identify food by elevating some aspect of a trait that is already in the plant,” said Mark C. Mescher,…
DNA testing on 2,000-year-old bones in Italy reveal East Asian ancestry
The results will be presented at the Roman Archeology Conference at Oxford, England, in March, and published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology.According to…
Argonautes: A big turn-off for proteins
The issue, they say, is important because the more scientists know about how genes — the blueprints for proteins — are regulated, the more likely they are to…