Bush pushes plant energy

Clean Energy Diplomacy from Bush to Obama

Actin pushes in bizarre places

Actin pushes in bizarre places ewis Tilney has always had a gift for looking for biology in strange places. His publishing history, he says, reads like a “Rogue’s gallery” of plants, fungi, parasites, and plenty of unusual invertebrate creatures. “It’s just ridiculous, and nowadays I couldn’t get away with it.” His colleagues say it is part of his genius to look in unusual systems to answer fun...

UK pushes stem cell support

Britain is backing stem cell research with new international links and domestic projects within an EU still willing to fund certain types of research. And the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, used his trip to California last month to back the field in spite of sharp opposition from President George Bush, who used his first presidential veto to block federal funding for human embryonic stem c...

Listeria Motility: Biophysics Pushes Things Forward

Recent studies have provided important new insights into the forces exerted by actin polymerization during Listeria motility. The results also expose deficiencies in our understanding of this process, and suggest future directions for complete understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved.

Microbial Ecology Pushes Frontiers in Biotechnology

Due to their diverse metabolic potentials and established manipulation techniques, microbes are considered to be excellent materials for biotechnology. Pure cultures of microbes are exploited in industrial processes to produce alcohols, organic acids, and polymeric materials (2). Furthermore, human society has a long history of using mixed microbial cultures to produce fermented foods (8). Natu...