Keeping it together
Scientists explore how halophilic proteins survive high salt Proteins are a cell’s machinery. A cell’s surface is cluttered with protein receptors that […]
Month: February 2014
Better than a canary
A microorganism reports on environmental toxins by whether it knows which way is up or down Pollution, and the resulting toxic habitats, […]
Can we be as clever as plants?
Engineers, computer scientists, and plant biologists come together to create robot explorers inspired by plants We eat them. We breathe the oxygen […]