ScientistsResearchingWhatWeDon'tKnow
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1JULY2005
Thoughitisoften--andjustifiably--maligned,itisignorance--andrecognizingwhereitexists--thatdrivesscientiststodogroundbreakingscience.Forearlycareerscientists,ignorance--andknowingwhatareasweareignorantof--alsoprovidescompellingprofessionalopportunities.ThatiswhywehavechosentosupplementSciencemagazine's125thAnni...[
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Sci.STKE,Vol.2005,Issue290,pp.tr20,28June2005
[DOI:10.1126/stke.2902005tr20]SensorySystems:TastePerceptionRobertF.Margolskee*DepartmentofPharmacologyandBiologicalChemistry,MountSinaiSchoolofMedicine,NewYork,NY10029,USA.
Abstract:ThisTeachingResourceprovideslecturenotesandslidesforaclasscoveringthehumanta...[
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[DOI:10.1126/stke.2902005pl5]QuantumDot-BasedCellMotilityAssayWeiweiGu1,TeresaPellegrino2,WolfgangJ.Parak2,RosanneBoudreau1,MarkA.LeGros3,DanieleGerion2,A.PaulAlivisatos2,andCarolynA.Larabell1,3*1DepartmentofAnatomy,Uni...[
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http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/102/26/9160CharacterizingthedynamicsofspecificRNAlevelsrequiresrealtimeRNAprofilinginasinglecell.Weshowthatthecombinationofasyntheticmodulargeneticsystemwithfluorescencecorrelationspectroscopyallowsustodirectlymeasureinrealtimetheactivityofanyspecificpromoterinprokaryotes.Usingasimpleinduciblegeneexpressionsystem,wefoundthatinducedRNAlevelswithinasinglebacteriumofEs...[
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Science,Vol308,Issue5730,1915-1920,24June2005
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InVoles,aLittleExtraDNAMakesforFaithfulMatesElizabethPennisiPrairievolesarerenownedforbeingfaithfulmates,butsomeindividualsaremorefaithfulthanothers.Thedifferencemaylieintheirso-calledjunkDNA.Onpage1630,ElizabethHammockandLawrenceYoungofEmoryUniversityinAtlanta,Georgia,reportthatfidelityandothersocialbehaviorsinmaleprairievolesseemtodependonthelengthofaparticulargenetics...[
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Thehumangutcontainsseveralhundredspeciesofmicrobesandroughlyhalfthetotalnumberofcellsinourbodies.However,weknowalmostnothingaboutthesecohabitantsortheircontributiontohumanhealthanddisease.Eckburgetal.(p.1635,publishedonline14April2005)describethemicrobialdiversityatvarioussitesinthecolonsofthreehealthypeopleby16SribosomalRNA-basedanalysisandofferacomprehensive,detailedmolecularsurveyofthemicrobiot...[
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NatureReviewsMicrobiology3,447(2005);doi:10.1038/nrmicro1186Metagenomics
INTHISISSUENatureReviewsMicrobiologyisdelightedtopresentaspecialissuedevotedtotheemergingfieldofmetagenomics—theculture-independentgenomicanalysisofanassemblageofmicroorganisms.Untilnow,thefocusofmicrobialgenomicshasbeenonthestudyofindividualmicrobialstrains.Outsidethelaboratory,however,almostallmicroorganismsexistincomp...[
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Nature435,548(2June2005)|doi:10.1038/nature03861YeastfeedsdebateonprolonginglifeCarinaDennisTopofpageAbstractFruitfliesgrowolderwhencertainfoodsarecut.'Eatinglesshelpsyoulivelonger'hasfordecadesbeenthemessagefromresearchersofageing.Soexpertsarenotsurewhattomakeofastudyinfliesthatsuggestsitcouldbewhatyoueat,nothowmuchyoueat,thatreallycounts.Theideathatrestrictingcaloriesprolongslifespanwasfirstrepo...[
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Thefieldofstructuralgenomicsaimstorevealtheshapesofproteinsbyusingtheinformationobtainedfromgenome-sequencingprojectsinautomated,high-throughputschemes.ThesewouldsynthesizethousandsofproteinsinvitrosothattheycouldbeexaminedbyX-raycrystallographyandnuclearmagneticresonancetechniques,whichareusedtoimagemoleculesinthreedimensions.[
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