Biology
News Releases
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When Plants Flower: Scientists ID Genes, Mechanism in Sorghum
Thursday, March 7, 2024
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Protecting the Protector Boosts Plant Oil Content
Thursday, February 8, 2024
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Scientists Make COVID Receptor Protein in Mouse Cells
Monday, January 22, 2024
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Unlocking Sugar to Generate Biofuels and Bioproducts
Thursday, October 26, 2023
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Department of Energy Announces $112.4 Million for Research to Support National Biopreparedness and Response
Thursday, September 7, 2023
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Zinc Transporter Has Built-in Self-regulating Sensor
Friday, June 9, 2023
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Structure of 'Oil-Eating' Enzyme Opens Door to Bioengineered Catalysts
Thursday, March 30, 2023
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ORNL-led Team Designs Molecule to Disrupt SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
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DOE Announces $590 Million To Increase Bioenergy Research
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
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Study Identifies New Levers for Controlling Plant Biochemistry
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
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Engineering Duckweed to Produce Oil for Biofuels, Bioproducts
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
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DOE Funds Pilot Study Focused on Biosecurity for Bioenergy Crops
Thursday, October 6, 2022
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Research Shows Oilseeds' Potential for Bioproduct Creation
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
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Zhai Awarded DOE Early Career Funding for Plant Enzyme Studies
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
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Scientists Nail Down 'Destination' for Protein That Delivers Zinc
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
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New Model for Antibacterial Mechanism: Toxic Misinformation
Friday, April 29, 2022
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300 High School Seniors Named Nation's Top Scientists in Regeneron Science Talent Search 2022
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
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Top-10 Areas of Amazing Science at Brookhaven Lab in 2021
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
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Scientists ID Sterol Essential for Oil Accumulation in Plants
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
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Increasing Sugar Availability for Oil Synthesis
Monday, August 30, 2021
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Scientists ID Enzyme for Making Key Industrial Chemical in Plants
Thursday, August 5, 2021
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How COVID-19 Wreaks Havoc on Human Lungs
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
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Science Begins at Brookhaven Lab's New Cryo-EM Research Facility
Thursday, January 14, 2021
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Brookhaven Lab's Top-10 Stories of 2020
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
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Scientists Discover Plants' Roadblock to Specialty Oil Production
Monday, January 4, 2021
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Quantum X-ray Microscope Underway at Brookhaven Lab
Monday, November 23, 2020
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Ready to Join the Fight Against COVID-19
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
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New Effort to Link Plant Genes to Functions in Bioenergy Crops
Friday, June 19, 2020
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Brookhaven Lab Mobilizes Resources in Fight Against COVID-19
Monday, April 6, 2020
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Top-10 Science and Technology Achievements of 2019
Monday, January 6, 2020
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New Function for Plant Enzyme Could Lead to Green Chemistry
Monday, December 9, 2019
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Plants' Oil-Production Accelerator Also Activates the Brakes
Thursday, June 20, 2019
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New Approach for Solving Protein Structures from Tiny Crystals
Friday, May 3, 2019
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Plant Cells Eat Their Own … Membranes and Oil Droplets
Monday, April 29, 2019
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'Electron Shuttle' Protein Plays Key Role in Plant Cell-Wall Construction
Monday, April 8, 2019
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Top 10 Discoveries of 2018
Monday, January 7, 2019
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Biophysicist F. William Studier Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
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How a Molecular Signal Helps Plant Cells Decide When to Make Oil
Monday, September 24, 2018
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New Details of Molecular Machinery that Builds Plant Cell Wall Components
Monday, April 30, 2018
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Removing the Brakes on Plant Oil Production
Monday, April 9, 2018
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DOE Grants $10.6 Million to Produce More Biodiesel, Biojet Fuel
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
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2017's Top-10 Discoveries and Scientific Achievements at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
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With Extra Sugar, Leaves Get Fat Too
Monday, September 25, 2017
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Brookhaven's John Shanklin Named a Battelle 'Inventor of the Year'
Friday, April 28, 2017
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Study IDs Link Between Sugar Signaling and Regulation of Oil Production in Plants
Friday, March 17, 2017
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Scientists Determine Structure of Enzyme Linked with Key Cell-Signaling Protein
Monday, July 18, 2016
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Study Shows Trees with Altered Lignin are Better for Biofuels
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
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Scientists Propose "Pumpjack" Mechanism for Splitting and Copying DNA
Monday, February 8, 2016
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Scientists Guide Gold Nanoparticles to Form "Diamond" Superlattices
Thursday, February 4, 2016
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John Shanklin Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Biology Department
Thursday, February 4, 2016
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2015's Top 10 Scientific Advances at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
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New Clues for Battling Botulism
Monday, December 7, 2015
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First Complete Pictures of Cells' DNA-Copying Machinery
Monday, November 2, 2015
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Stony Brook University Student Kuan Hu Wins 2015 Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
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Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan to Speak at Brookhaven Lab on Wednesday, 9/30
Thursday, September 10, 2015
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New Computer Model Could Explain how Simple Molecules Took First Step Toward Life
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
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Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Thursday, April 2, 2015
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New Clues About a Brain Protein with High Affinity for Valium
Thursday, January 29, 2015
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For Important Tumor-Suppressing Protein, Context is Key
Monday, November 24, 2014
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Scientists Map Key Moment in Assembly of DNA-Splitting Molecular Machine
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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Stony Brook University Student Meng Yang Wins 2014 Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Friday, October 3, 2014
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'Life Redesigned: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology' Lecture on Wednesday, April 30
Thursday, April 3, 2014
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Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Monday, March 17, 2014
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Top-10 Brookhaven Lab Breakthroughs of 2013
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
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Scientists Identify Key Genes for Increasing Oil Content in Plant Leaves
Friday, October 18, 2013
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Stony Brook University Student Jo-Ann Jee Wins Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Thursday, October 3, 2013
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Elevated Levels of Copper in Amyloid Plaques Associated with Neurodegeneration in Mouse Models of Alzheimer's Disease
Thursday, August 22, 2013
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Key Step in Molecular 'Dance' that Duplicates DNA Deciphered
Sunday, July 14, 2013
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Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Monday, March 18, 2013
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Scientists Turn Toxic By-Product Into Biofuel Booster
Monday, February 4, 2013
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David Schlyer Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Biosciences Department
Friday, January 11, 2013
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Biologists Describe Details of New Mechanism for Molecular Interactions
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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Computational Model IDs Potential Pathways to Improve Plant Oil Production
Monday, October 8, 2012
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Stony Brook University Student Yixiong Yang Wins Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Monday, October 1, 2012
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Scientists Create Low-Lignin Plants with Improved Potential for Biofuel Production
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
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Carbon is Key for Getting Algae to Pump Out More Oil
Monday, June 18, 2012
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Scientists ID Mechanism for Regulating Plant Oil Production
Monday, June 4, 2012
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Study Reveals How Protein Machinery Binds and Wraps DNA to Start Replication
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
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Study Offers Insight into Delicate Biochemical Balance Required for Plant Growth
Friday, January 13, 2012
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First Analysis of Tumor-Suppressor Interactions with Whole Genome in Normal Human Cells Reveals Key Differences with Cancer Cells
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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Bioengineer Stephen Quake to Speak at Brookhaven Lab on 'Precision Measurements in Biology,' November 30
Monday, November 7, 2011
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Talk at Brookhaven Lab, November 10: 'A Step Closer to Understanding Alzheimer's Disease'
Thursday, October 20, 2011
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Stony Brook University Student Zhixun Dou Wins Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Thursday, October 13, 2011
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Scientists Solve Long-Standing Plant Biochemistry Mystery
Monday, September 19, 2011
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Modeling Plant Metabolism to Optimize Oil Production
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
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Scientists to assemble 'knowledgebase' on plants, microbes, to aid US biofuel, environment efforts
Monday, July 18, 2011
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Integrated ‘Knowledgebase’ on Plants and Microbes to Aid Energy Research
Monday, July 18, 2011
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Bacterial Protein Caught in the Act of Secreting Sticky Appendages
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
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Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Thursday, April 21, 2011
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Nobel Laureate Thomas A. Steitz to Speak at Brookhaven Lab on the Ribosome and New Antibiotics, May 23
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
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Genetic Makeup and Duration of Abuse Reduce the Brain's Neurons in Drug Addiction
Monday, March 7, 2011
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Princeton University Biologist Bonnie Bassler to Give a Talk at Brookhaven Lab on Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria, March 24
Friday, February 25, 2011
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Harvard Chemist Xiaoliang Sunney Xie to Speak at Brookhaven Lab on 'Life at the Single Molecule Level,' March 4
Friday, February 4, 2011
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Brookhaven Lab’s Top 5 Scientific Discoveries of 2010
Friday, January 14, 2011
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Scientists Unravel More Details of Plant Cell-Wall Construction
Monday, December 13, 2010
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Uptake Protein Acts as Zinc’s Doorway to the Cell
Monday, November 22, 2010
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Engineered Plants Make Potential Precursor to Raw Material for Plastics
Monday, November 8, 2010
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PET Scans Reveal Estrogen-Producing Hotspots in Human Brain
Monday, November 1, 2010
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Protein Shows How Plants Keep Their Mouths Shut
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
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Key Difference in How TB Bacteria Degrade Doomed Proteins
Sunday, October 17, 2010
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Science Editor-in-Chief Bruce Alberts to Give Two Lectures at Brookhaven Lab
Friday, August 13, 2010
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Reinhold Mann Named Brookhaven Lab's Associate Laboratory Director for Environment and Life Sciences
Friday, June 18, 2010
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Scientists Decipher Structure of Nature’s ‘Light Switch’
Monday, May 31, 2010
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Scientists ID Bacterial Genes that Improve Plant Growth
Thursday, May 13, 2010
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New Details of Tuberculosis Protein-Cleaving Machinery Revealed
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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Scientists Get Funding to Design Anti-Botulism Drugs
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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Making New Enzymes to Engineer Plants for Biofuel Production
Monday, December 21, 2009
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Grooving Down the Helix
Thursday, December 3, 2009
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CSHL team solves structure of NMDA receptor unit that could be drug target for neurological diseases
Friday, November 13, 2009
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Genomes of Two Popular Research Strains of E. coli Sequenced
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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Popping the Cork on Biofuel Agriculture
Monday, October 19, 2009
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Inhibitors of Important Tuberculosis Survival Mechanism Identified
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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High-Res View of Zinc Transport Protein
Sunday, September 13, 2009
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Chemists Reach from the Molecular to the Real World with Creation of 3-D DNA Crystals
Thursday, September 3, 2009
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Trapped! Scientists Immobilize Bacteria in Fibrous Hydrogel
Monday, August 3, 2009
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How Botulism Paralyzes Nerve Cells: New Details Revealed
Sunday, June 21, 2009
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Plant Microbe Shares Features with Drug-Resistant Pathogen
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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Students Join Brookhaven Lab's NASA Space Radiation Summer School
Monday, June 1, 2009
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Details of Bacterial 'Injection' System Revealed
Sunday, April 26, 2009
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Plant Gene Mapping May Lead to Better Biofuel Production
Friday, April 10, 2009
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DNA-Based Assembly Line for Precision Nano-Cluster Construction
Sunday, March 29, 2009
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Nobel Laureate Paul Nurse to Give Two Lectures at Brookhaven Lab, March 18 — 'Controlling the Cell Cycle' and 'The Great Ideas of Biology'
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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Scientists Identify Bacteria That Increase Plant Growth
Monday, January 26, 2009
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Scientists Reveal Structure of New Botulism Nerve Toxin Subtype
Monday, December 22, 2008
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Molecular 'Snapshots' Capture Infectious Pili Formation
Thursday, May 15, 2008
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Scientists Determine Drug Target for the Most Potent Botulinum Neurotoxin
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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Studies Suggest New Targets for Tuberculosis Treatments
Monday, March 6, 2006
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Landmark Progress in Understanding Ribosome Structure — Research Done at Brookhaven Lab's Light Source
Wednesday, August 25, 1999
Features
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New Approach to Tackling Bacterial Infections Identified
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
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Modified Soft Material Promises Better Bioelectronics
Friday, January 19, 2024
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In an Unexpected Twist, High Levels of Mercury Have Been Traced to Particular Cell Types in Brains of Mammals
Thursday, January 4, 2024
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X-rays Reveal Unexpected Protein Function in Plants
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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528th Brookhaven Lecture: Metals, Life, and a Delicate Dance
Friday, August 5, 2022
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Video: Biotechnology from Brookhaven Critical for COVID Vaccines
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
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The Science Behind the Shot: Biotech Tools Developed at Brookhaven Lab Fundamental to Making COVID-19 Vaccines
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
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Finding Gene Neighbors Leads to New Protein Functions
Monday, April 5, 2021
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Yingqi Cai: Passion for Plants Leads to Promising Biofuel Research
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
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Green Algae Reveals One mRNA Encodes Many Proteins
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
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Students Identify Starting Points for Potential COVID-19 Inhibitors
Monday, December 28, 2020
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CABBI Researchers Collaborate on Oilcane Pilot Project
Thursday, October 29, 2020
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Summer Students Tackle COVID-19
Monday, August 31, 2020
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Brookhaven Biochemist Receives Prestigious Award for Plant Lipid Research
Monday, May 4, 2020
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Teaming Up to Help Solve Complex Problems in Biology
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
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DOE Funds Major Bioenergy Research Center at Illinois Through ISEE, IGB
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
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Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Monday, April 10, 2017
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National Synchrotron Light Source II User Profiles: Crysten Blaby
Friday, March 17, 2017
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Make-up, Structure, and Function—For Proteins and Research Teams
Thursday, December 22, 2016
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Brookhaven Lab Community Bids Farewell to 2016 Summer Science Research Students
Monday, September 12, 2016
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The Next Generation
Monday, September 12, 2016
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Changcheng Xu of Brookhaven Lab's Biology Department Granted Tenure
Thursday, July 7, 2016
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515th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 6/29: 'Structural Biology: Studying Living Things as They Jiggle and Wiggle'
Thursday, June 23, 2016
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Meet Crysten and Ian Blaby
Friday, January 29, 2016
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Bacteria Tracked Feeding Nitrogen to Nutrient-Starved Plants
Friday, April 10, 2015
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500th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 12/17: 'Small Science, Big Impact: Basic Research with Bacteriophage T7'
Friday, December 12, 2014
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NASA Space Radiation School is Totally Radical
Monday, September 22, 2014
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DOE 'Knowledgebase' Links Biologists, Computer Scientists to Solve Energy, Environmental Issues
Friday, August 29, 2014
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Biosciences Seminar Room Dedicated to John Dunn
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
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In Memoriam, John Dunn
Thursday, September 13, 2012
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A New Approach for Solving Protein Structures
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
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Sarah Ackerman Explores How Cells Fare in Space
Monday, July 30, 2012
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479th Brookhaven Lecture, 6/20
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
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Just How Does a Garden Grow?
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
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A.J. Francis Named Scientist Emeritus
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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Meet Chang-Jun Liu and Paul Sorensen
Thursday, February 9, 2012
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Multimodal Thinking – Medical Imaging with Antimatter and Nuclear Spins
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
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Brookhaven Lab Scientists Help Siemens Competition Regional Winners With Their Research
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
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Scientists Target Bacteria “Quorum Sensing” as a Route to New Antibacterial Therapies
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
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Carl Anderson Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, August 25, 2011
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Using Sound to Mount Microcrystals for X-ray Diffraction
Thursday, July 7, 2011
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F. William Studier: Basic Research Leads to Most Successful BNL Technology
Thursday, April 7, 2011
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The Village Beacon Record Honors BNL Scientists
Thursday, January 27, 2011
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Detective Novel Uses NSLS to Help Solve a Crime
Thursday, November 4, 2010
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462nd Brookhaven Lecture Featuring Chang-Jun Liu
Thursday, October 21, 2010
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Reinhold Mann Named Brookhaven Lab's Associate Laboratory Director for Environment and Life Sciences
Thursday, July 1, 2010
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Getting More From Less: Correlated Single-Crystal Spectroscopy and X-ray Crystallography at the NSLS
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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John Sutherland Honored with Emeritus Title
Friday, November 20, 2009
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Richard Setlow Honored at Celebration Symposium
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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NIH Funding Renewed for Case Center for Synchrotron Biosciences
Thursday, September 3, 2009
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Tiny, Powerful Beams Will Enable New Science: Workshop Makes Case for Micro-Beams
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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BNLers Honored at Lab Recognition Ceremony
Monday, July 20, 2009
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Using Plants To Help the Environment
Thursday, April 23, 2009
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New Radiotracers on the Horizon
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Videos
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Bill Studier, the T7 System, and COVID Vaccines
January 18, 2022
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Brookhaven Lab's plant oil research
April 28, 2020
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Structural Biology: Studying Living Things as They Jiggle and Wiggle
June 29, 2016
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Negative Particles for Positive Breakthroughs: Characterizing Electrons in Novel Materials at NSLS-II
January 21, 2015
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Small Science, Big Impact: Basic Research with Bacteriophage T7
December 17, 2014
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58:24
Biomineralization and Biological Sensors
February 7, 2013
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58:24
Charting Plant Metabolism
June 25, 2012
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57:33
Precision Measurements in Biology
December 2, 2011
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1:16:51
A Step Closer to Understanding Alzheimer's Disease
November 15, 2011
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Engineered Plants Make Potential Precursor to Raw Material for Plastics
November 22, 2010
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9:29
The Ribosome and How Antibiotics Disrupt It
October 8, 2009
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DNA Assembly Line for Nano-Construction
March 25, 2009
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2:14
Enzyme Detectives Uncover New Reactions, Products
December 22, 2008