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Biologists Identify Plant-specific Protein Essential for Survival
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Biologists Engineer Larger, Tougher Crops for Fuel, Bioproducts
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Scientists Find a New Way to Help Plants Fight Diseases
Friday, May 30, 2025
Brookhaven's Top 10 Discoveries of 2024
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Scientists Engineer Yellow-seeded Camelina with High Oil Output
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Scientists Discover Mechanism of Sugar Signaling in Plants
Friday, May 17, 2024
Modern Plant Enzyme Partners with Surprisingly Ancient Protein
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Brookhaven Lab Biophysicist F. William Studier Awarded Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
When Plants Flower: Scientists ID Genes, Mechanism in Sorghum
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Protecting the Protector Boosts Plant Oil Content
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Scientists Make COVID Receptor Protein in Mouse Cells
Monday, January 22, 2024
Unlocking Sugar to Generate Biofuels and Bioproducts
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Department of Energy Announces $112.4 Million for Research to Support National Biopreparedness and Response
Thursday, September 7, 2023
Zinc Transporter Has Built-in Self-regulating Sensor
Friday, June 9, 2023
Structure of 'Oil-Eating' Enzyme Opens Door to Bioengineered Catalysts
Thursday, March 30, 2023
ORNL-led Team Designs Molecule to Disrupt SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
DOE Announces $590 Million To Increase Bioenergy Research
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Study Identifies New Levers for Controlling Plant Biochemistry
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Engineering Duckweed to Produce Oil for Biofuels, Bioproducts
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
DOE Funds Pilot Study Focused on Biosecurity for Bioenergy Crops
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Research Shows Oilseeds' Potential for Bioproduct Creation
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Zhai Awarded DOE Early Career Funding for Plant Enzyme Studies
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Scientists Nail Down 'Destination' for Protein That Delivers Zinc
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
New Model for Antibacterial Mechanism: Toxic Misinformation
Friday, April 29, 2022
300 High School Seniors Named Nation's Top Scientists in Regeneron Science Talent Search 2022
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Top-10 Areas of Amazing Science at Brookhaven Lab in 2021
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Scientists ID Sterol Essential for Oil Accumulation in Plants
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Increasing Sugar Availability for Oil Synthesis
Monday, August 30, 2021
Scientists ID Enzyme for Making Key Industrial Chemical in Plants
Thursday, August 5, 2021
How COVID-19 Wreaks Havoc on Human Lungs
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Science Begins at Brookhaven Lab's New Cryo-EM Research Facility
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Brookhaven Lab's Top-10 Stories of 2020
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Scientists Discover Plants' Roadblock to Specialty Oil Production
Monday, January 4, 2021
Quantum X-ray Microscope Underway at Brookhaven Lab
Monday, November 23, 2020
Ready to Join the Fight Against COVID-19
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
New Effort to Link Plant Genes to Functions in Bioenergy Crops
Friday, June 19, 2020
Brookhaven Lab Mobilizes Resources in Fight Against COVID-19
Monday, April 6, 2020
Top-10 Science and Technology Achievements of 2019
Monday, January 6, 2020
New Function for Plant Enzyme Could Lead to Green Chemistry
Monday, December 9, 2019
Plants' Oil-Production Accelerator Also Activates the Brakes
Thursday, June 20, 2019
New Approach for Solving Protein Structures from Tiny Crystals
Friday, May 3, 2019
Plant Cells Eat Their Own … Membranes and Oil Droplets
Monday, April 29, 2019
'Electron Shuttle' Protein Plays Key Role in Plant Cell-Wall Construction
Monday, April 8, 2019
Top 10 Discoveries of 2018
Monday, January 7, 2019
Biophysicist F. William Studier Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
How a Molecular Signal Helps Plant Cells Decide When to Make Oil
Monday, September 24, 2018
New Details of Molecular Machinery that Builds Plant Cell Wall Components
Monday, April 30, 2018
Removing the Brakes on Plant Oil Production
Monday, April 9, 2018
DOE Grants $10.6 Million to Produce More Biodiesel, Biojet Fuel
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
2017's Top-10 Discoveries and Scientific Achievements at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
With Extra Sugar, Leaves Get Fat Too
Monday, September 25, 2017
Brookhaven's John Shanklin Named a Battelle 'Inventor of the Year'
Friday, April 28, 2017
Study IDs Link Between Sugar Signaling and Regulation of Oil Production in Plants
Friday, March 17, 2017
Scientists Determine Structure of Enzyme Linked with Key Cell-Signaling Protein
Monday, July 18, 2016
Study Shows Trees with Altered Lignin are Better for Biofuels
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Scientists Propose "Pumpjack" Mechanism for Splitting and Copying DNA
Monday, February 8, 2016
Scientists Guide Gold Nanoparticles to Form "Diamond" Superlattices
Thursday, February 4, 2016
John Shanklin Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Biology Department
Thursday, February 4, 2016
2015's Top 10 Scientific Advances at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
New Clues for Battling Botulism
Monday, December 7, 2015
First Complete Pictures of Cells' DNA-Copying Machinery
Monday, November 2, 2015
Stony Brook University Student Kuan Hu Wins 2015 Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan to Speak at Brookhaven Lab on Wednesday, 9/30
Thursday, September 10, 2015
New Computer Model Could Explain how Simple Molecules Took First Step Toward Life
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Thursday, April 2, 2015
New Clues About a Brain Protein with High Affinity for Valium
Thursday, January 29, 2015
For Important Tumor-Suppressing Protein, Context is Key
Monday, November 24, 2014
Scientists Map Key Moment in Assembly of DNA-Splitting Molecular Machine
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Stony Brook University Student Meng Yang Wins 2014 Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Friday, October 3, 2014
'Life Redesigned: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology' Lecture on Wednesday, April 30
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Monday, March 17, 2014
Top-10 Brookhaven Lab Breakthroughs of 2013
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Scientists Identify Key Genes for Increasing Oil Content in Plant Leaves
Friday, October 18, 2013
Stony Brook University Student Jo-Ann Jee Wins Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Elevated Levels of Copper in Amyloid Plaques Associated with Neurodegeneration in Mouse Models of Alzheimer's Disease
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Key Step in Molecular 'Dance' that Duplicates DNA Deciphered
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Monday, March 18, 2013
Scientists Turn Toxic By-Product Into Biofuel Booster
Monday, February 4, 2013
David Schlyer Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Biosciences Department
Friday, January 11, 2013
Biologists Describe Details of New Mechanism for Molecular Interactions
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Computational Model IDs Potential Pathways to Improve Plant Oil Production
Monday, October 8, 2012
Stony Brook University Student Yixiong Yang Wins Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Monday, October 1, 2012
Scientists Create Low-Lignin Plants with Improved Potential for Biofuel Production
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Carbon is Key for Getting Algae to Pump Out More Oil
Monday, June 18, 2012
Scientists ID Mechanism for Regulating Plant Oil Production
Monday, June 4, 2012
Study Reveals How Protein Machinery Binds and Wraps DNA to Start Replication
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Study Offers Insight into Delicate Biochemical Balance Required for Plant Growth
Friday, January 13, 2012
First Analysis of Tumor-Suppressor Interactions with Whole Genome in Normal Human Cells Reveals Key Differences with Cancer Cells
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Bioengineer Stephen Quake to Speak at Brookhaven Lab on 'Precision Measurements in Biology,' November 30
Monday, November 7, 2011
Talk at Brookhaven Lab, November 10: 'A Step Closer to Understanding Alzheimer's Disease'
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Stony Brook University Student Zhixun Dou Wins Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Scientists Solve Long-Standing Plant Biochemistry Mystery
Monday, September 19, 2011
Modeling Plant Metabolism to Optimize Oil Production
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Scientists to assemble 'knowledgebase' on plants, microbes, to aid US biofuel, environment efforts
Monday, July 18, 2011
Integrated ‘Knowledgebase’ on Plants and Microbes to Aid Energy Research
Monday, July 18, 2011
Bacterial Protein Caught in the Act of Secreting Sticky Appendages
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Nobel Laureate Thomas A. Steitz to Speak at Brookhaven Lab on the Ribosome and New Antibiotics, May 23
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Genetic Makeup and Duration of Abuse Reduce the Brain's Neurons in Drug Addiction
Monday, March 7, 2011
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
Harvard Chemist Xiaoliang Sunney Xie to Speak at Brookhaven Lab on 'Life at the Single Molecule Level,' March 4
Friday, February 4, 2011
Brookhaven Lab’s Top 5 Scientific Discoveries of 2010
Friday, January 14, 2011
Scientists Unravel More Details of Plant Cell-Wall Construction
Monday, December 13, 2010
Uptake Protein Acts as Zinc’s Doorway to the Cell
Monday, November 22, 2010
Engineered Plants Make Potential Precursor to Raw Material for Plastics
Monday, November 8, 2010
PET Scans Reveal Estrogen-Producing Hotspots in Human Brain
Monday, November 1, 2010
Protein Shows How Plants Keep Their Mouths Shut
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Key Difference in How TB Bacteria Degrade Doomed Proteins
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Science Editor-in-Chief Bruce Alberts to Give Two Lectures at Brookhaven Lab
Friday, August 13, 2010
Reinhold Mann Named Brookhaven Lab's Associate Laboratory Director for Environment and Life Sciences
Friday, June 18, 2010
Scientists Decipher Structure of Nature’s ‘Light Switch’
Monday, May 31, 2010
Scientists ID Bacterial Genes that Improve Plant Growth
Thursday, May 13, 2010
New Details of Tuberculosis Protein-Cleaving Machinery Revealed
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Scientists Get Funding to Design Anti-Botulism Drugs
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Making New Enzymes to Engineer Plants for Biofuel Production
Monday, December 21, 2009
Grooving Down the Helix
Thursday, December 3, 2009
CSHL team solves structure of NMDA receptor unit that could be drug target for neurological diseases
Friday, November 13, 2009
Genomes of Two Popular Research Strains of E. coli Sequenced
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Popping the Cork on Biofuel Agriculture
Monday, October 19, 2009
Inhibitors of Important Tuberculosis Survival Mechanism Identified
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
High-Res View of Zinc Transport Protein
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Chemists Reach from the Molecular to the Real World with Creation of 3-D DNA Crystals
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Trapped! Scientists Immobilize Bacteria in Fibrous Hydrogel
Monday, August 3, 2009
How Botulism Paralyzes Nerve Cells: New Details Revealed
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Plant Microbe Shares Features with Drug-Resistant Pathogen
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Students Join Brookhaven Lab's NASA Space Radiation Summer School
Monday, June 1, 2009
Details of Bacterial 'Injection' System Revealed
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Plant Gene Mapping May Lead to Better Biofuel Production
Friday, April 10, 2009
DNA-Based Assembly Line for Precision Nano-Cluster Construction
Sunday, March 29, 2009
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
Scientists Identify Bacteria That Increase Plant Growth
Monday, January 26, 2009
Scientists Reveal Structure of New Botulism Nerve Toxin Subtype
Monday, December 22, 2008
Molecular 'Snapshots' Capture Infectious Pili Formation
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Scientists Determine Drug Target for the Most Potent Botulinum Neurotoxin
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Studies Suggest New Targets for Tuberculosis Treatments
Monday, March 6, 2006
Landmark Progress in Understanding Ribosome Structure — Research Done at Brookhaven Lab's Light Source
Wednesday, August 25, 1999
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Monday, September 8, 2025
CABBI Team Deploys Robotic Lab to Revolutionize Plant Bioengineering
Monday, April 21, 2025
Pioneering the Cellular Frontier
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Model Suggests How Ancient RNA May Have Gained Self-Cutting Ability Essential for Life
Thursday, March 28, 2024
New Approach to Tackling Bacterial Infections Identified
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Modified Soft Material Promises Better Bioelectronics
Friday, January 19, 2024
In an Unexpected Twist, High Levels of Mercury Have Been Traced to Particular Cell Types in Brains of Mammals
Thursday, January 4, 2024
X-rays Reveal Unexpected Protein Function in Plants
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
528th Brookhaven Lecture: Metals, Life, and a Delicate Dance
Friday, August 5, 2022
Video: Biotechnology from Brookhaven Critical for COVID Vaccines
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
The Science Behind the Shot: Biotech Tools Developed at Brookhaven Lab Fundamental to Making COVID-19 Vaccines
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Finding Gene Neighbors Leads to New Protein Functions
Monday, April 5, 2021
Yingqi Cai: Passion for Plants Leads to Promising Biofuel Research
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Green Algae Reveals One mRNA Encodes Many Proteins
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Students Identify Starting Points for Potential COVID-19 Inhibitors
Monday, December 28, 2020
CABBI Researchers Collaborate on Oilcane Pilot Project
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Summer Students Tackle COVID-19
Monday, August 31, 2020
Brookhaven Biochemist Receives Prestigious Award for Plant Lipid Research
Monday, May 4, 2020
Teaming Up to Help Solve Complex Problems in Biology
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
DOE Funds Major Bioenergy Research Center at Illinois Through ISEE, IGB
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Monday, April 10, 2017
National Synchrotron Light Source II User Profiles: Crysten Blaby
Friday, March 17, 2017
Make-up, Structure, and Function—For Proteins and Research Teams
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Brookhaven Lab Community Bids Farewell to 2016 Summer Science Research Students
Monday, September 12, 2016
The Next Generation
Monday, September 12, 2016
Changcheng Xu of Brookhaven Lab's Biology Department Granted Tenure
Thursday, July 7, 2016
515th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 6/29: 'Structural Biology: Studying Living Things as They Jiggle and Wiggle'
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Meet Crysten and Ian Blaby
Friday, January 29, 2016
Bacteria Tracked Feeding Nitrogen to Nutrient-Starved Plants
Friday, April 10, 2015
500th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 12/17: 'Small Science, Big Impact: Basic Research with Bacteriophage T7'
Friday, December 12, 2014
NASA Space Radiation School is Totally Radical
Monday, September 22, 2014
DOE 'Knowledgebase' Links Biologists, Computer Scientists to Solve Energy, Environmental Issues
Friday, August 29, 2014
Biosciences Seminar Room Dedicated to John Dunn
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
In Memoriam, John Dunn
Thursday, September 13, 2012
A New Approach for Solving Protein Structures
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Sarah Ackerman Explores How Cells Fare in Space
Monday, July 30, 2012
479th Brookhaven Lecture, 6/20
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Just How Does a Garden Grow?
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
A.J. Francis Named Scientist Emeritus
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Meet Chang-Jun Liu and Paul Sorensen
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Multimodal Thinking – Medical Imaging with Antimatter and Nuclear Spins
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Brookhaven Lab Scientists Help Siemens Competition Regional Winners With Their Research
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Scientists Target Bacteria “Quorum Sensing” as a Route to New Antibacterial Therapies
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Carl Anderson Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Using Sound to Mount Microcrystals for X-ray Diffraction
Thursday, July 7, 2011
F. William Studier: Basic Research Leads to Most Successful BNL Technology
Thursday, April 7, 2011
The Village Beacon Record Honors BNL Scientists
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Detective Novel Uses NSLS to Help Solve a Crime
Thursday, November 4, 2010
462nd Brookhaven Lecture Featuring Chang-Jun Liu
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Reinhold Mann Named Brookhaven Lab's Associate Laboratory Director for Environment and Life Sciences
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Getting More From Less: Correlated Single-Crystal Spectroscopy and X-ray Crystallography at the NSLS
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
John Sutherland Honored with Emeritus Title
Friday, November 20, 2009
Richard Setlow Honored at Celebration Symposium
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
NIH Funding Renewed for Case Center for Synchrotron Biosciences
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Tiny, Powerful Beams Will Enable New Science: Workshop Makes Case for Micro-Beams
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
BNLers Honored at Lab Recognition Ceremony
Monday, July 20, 2009
Using Plants To Help the Environment
Thursday, April 23, 2009
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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Biomineralization and Biological Sensors
February 7, 2013
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Charting Plant Metabolism
June 25, 2012
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Precision Measurements in Biology
December 2, 2011
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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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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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Enzyme Detectives Uncover New Reactions, Products
December 22, 2008
