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HHMI’s Biggest Experiment

He and his colleagues at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute had invested $500 million to build a research campus with the intention of creating a great engine of biological discovery. They lured top-notch talent, some young and some already established, to partake in what amounted to a magnificent sociological experiment in the way science is done. They took a deep breath and set it all in mot...

Biggest challenges in bioinformatics.

The third Heidelberg Unseminars in Bioinformatics (HUB) was held on 18th October 2012, at Heidelberg University, Germany. HUB brought together around 40 bioinformaticians from academia and industry to discuss the 'Biggest Challenges in Bioinformatics' in a 'World Café' style event.

Are GTGs ABA's Biggest Fans?

The search for receptors for abscisic acid (ABA), a phytohormone central to the response of plants to biotic and abiotic stress, has been controversial. In this issue, Pandey et al. (2009) report the identification of two membrane proteins from Arabidopsis, GTG1 and GTG2, that bind ABA in vitro and mediate ABA responses in vivo.

The biggest problem in diabetes.

The 10 Biggest Unsolved Problems in Physics

In 1900, the British physicist Lord Kelvin declared: “There is nothing new to discover in physics. All that remains is to more accurately measure its quantities.” In the same year quantum physics was born and three decades later it, and Einstein’s theory of relativity, had completely revolutionized and transformed physics. Today, hardly anyone would dare say that our knowledge of the universe, ...