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• UGA researchers evolve ‘super’ yeast that turns pine into ethanol

  Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed a strain of “super” yeast that efficiently ferments ethanol from pretreated pine, one of the most common species of trees in the U.S. Their research could help biofuels replace gasoline as a transportation fuel.

  “Companies are interested in producing ethanol from woody biomass [...]

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• Molecules on branched-polymer surfaces can sift tumor cells out of blood

  The removal of one-in-a-million tumor cells circulating in the blood might be possible with the use of biomolecules bound to dendrimers, highly branched synthetic polymers, which could efficiently sift and capture the diseased cells, according to new research at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

  Dendrimers have been used to encapsulate [...]

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• GA Tech develops fast energy component analysis package

  When a newly created drug doesn’t bind well to its intended target, the drug won’t work. Scientists are then forced to go back to the lab, often with very little indication about why the binding was weak. The next step is to choose a different pharmaceutical “combination” and hope for [...]

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• How nitrogenase breaks the nitrogen triple bond

  A mystery atom in the middle of a complex enzyme called nitrogenase had long hindered scientists’ ability to study how the enzyme converts nitrogen to ammonia.

  Now an international team of scientists led by Serena DeBeer, Cornell assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has pulled back the curtain using powerful synchrotron [...]

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