经济学人:分子生物学 蛋白质的奥秘(3)

One common protein-contact prediction is that, if the side chain of one member of a pair of amino acids brought close together by folding is long, 一种比较普通的蛋白质接触预测就是，如果一对氨基酸的一个侧链折叠后很长，

经济学人:分子生物学 蛋白质的奥秘(2)

One of the leading researchers in the field of protein folding is David Baker of the University of Washington, in Seattle. 西雅图华盛顿大学的David Baker是蛋白质折叠领域研究者的领军人物之一。 For the past 20 years he and hi

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Researchers Genetically Modify Corn to Increase Nutrition Researchers in the United States say they have discovered how to genetically engineer corn to produce a kind of amino acid usually found in meat. The result is a food with increased nutrition

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. As Valentines day approaches, remember, its the thought that counts. Just ask a decorated cricket. Because according to a study published in the January

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Many of the key molecules for life have a specific direction, or handedness: DNA twists to the right, amino acids to the left. Now scientists at the Nation

Designer Antibiotics

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. In 1953 a student named Stanley Miller did an experiment showing that the simple chemicals present on the early Earth could give rise to the basic buildi

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The early Earths oceans were home to a lot of interesting chemistry. Now scientists have found that amino acids thought to be present way back when could have been cooked into other compounds vital for lifean idea you should take with a grain of salt

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Sophie Bushwick. Got a Minute? What's the best way to find out if an unknown mixture contains a specific substance, like an environmental contaminant? You could use an expensive, bulky gas chromatogr

TED演讲:食物是如何影响大脑的(1)

If you sucked all of the moisture out of your brain and broke it down to its constituent nutritional content, what would it look like? 如果将你大脑里所有的水分都吸干，然后按不同的营养成分进行分类，会是怎样呢？ Mos

经济学人152:攻破屏障

Science and technology 科学技术 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 克雅氏病 Breaking down the barrier 攻破屏障 A glimmer of hope for a drug that treats disease caused by prions 药物治疗朊病毒感染疾病的一线希望 THE epidemic of mad-c

经济学人107:克雅氏病 攻破屏障

Science and Technology Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Breaking down the barrier 科技 克雅氏病 攻破屏障 A glimmer of hope for a drug that treats disease caused by prions 药物治疗朊病毒感染疾病的一线希望 THE epidemic of mad-cow dis

Austrian 2012 Olympic team takes shape

VIENNA, May 9 (Xinhua) -- The Austrian Olympic Committee (OeOC) nominated a further 13 athletes for its 2012 London Olympic Games team on Wednesday, bringing the total to 37 athletes across 12 sporting disciplines. OeOC President Karl Stoss said he p

净化室内空气 选这些植物就对了！

Indoor air pollution is a common threat to human health, the new study looked at five common house plants and found that when it comes to removing harmful chemicals from the air, those five plants are better than others. 室内空气污染对人类健康

万物简史 第409期:生命的起源(3)

There are actually twenty-two naturally occurring amino acids known on Earth, 实际上，地救上有22种天然存在的氨基酸， and more may await discovery, but only twenty of them are necessary to produce us and most other living things. 更多

万物简史 第407期:生命的起源(1)

19 The Rise Of Life 第十九章 生命的起源 In 1953, Stanley Miller, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, took two flasksone containing a little water to represent a primeval ocean, 1953年，芝加哥大学的研究生斯坦利米勒拿

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Proteins are what you get when you string amino acids together, and we need a lot of them. 你把氨基酸串在一起，就得到了蛋白质。我们需要大量的蛋白质。 No one really knows, but there may be as many as a million types of pro

每天吃鲑鱼 像戒烟一样有益

Eating a small steak every day could be as good for you as stopping smoking, scientists say. 科学家说，每天吃一小块牛排可以像戒烟一样对你有好处。 People who eat lots of protein-rich food were found to have lower blood pressu

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本期内容： A humble houseplant with a dash of rabbit DNA could help lower our exposure to indoor air pollution, new research suggests. Scientists have revealed that by inserting a rabbit gene into devils ivy the plant is able to clean the surrou