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Berkeley Lab researcher proposes novel scheme for capturing carbon dioxide and combating climate change

Artist's illustration of an atomic interferometer used in the proposed quantum gravity experiment. (Credit: Simca Bouma/UC Berkeley) Adapted from a NIST...

ORHS grad's research might boost food production Carolyn Krause Special to The Oak Ridger Kris Niyogi, an Oak Ridge High School graduate, led more than 10 years of research at Berkeley, Calif., that resulted in explanations of how green plants protect themselves from excess sunlight. The work earned him election in 2016 to the National Academy of Sciences. This prestigious honor was previously awarded in 1998 to his mother, Audrey Stevens, a biochemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She discovered the enzyme that copies DNA into the RNA molecules it makes, including messenger RNA. Applying...

Scientists deconstruct the protein-based machine responsible for SARS-CoV-2 replication In February 2020, a trio of bio-imaging experts were sitting amiably around a dinner table at a scientific conference in Washington, D.C., when the conversation shifted to what was then a worrying viral epidemic in China. Without foreseeing the global disaster to come, they wondered aloud how they might contribute. Nearly a year and a half later, those three scientists and their many collaborators across three national laboratories have published a comprehensive study in Biophysical Journal that - alongsid...

Biologists reveal unusual structure of coronavirus protein linked to immune evasion A team of HIV researchers, cellular biologists, and biophysicists who banded together to support COVID-19 science determined the atomic structure of a coronavirus protein thought to help the pathogen evade and dampen response from human immune cells. The structural map – which is now published in the journal PNAS, but has been open-access for the scientific community since August – has laid the groundwork for new antiviral treatments tailored specifically to SARS-CoV-2, and enabled further investigations i...