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Oct

08

2014

Carnegie DPB Retreat Awards Announcement

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The Best Three Talks

Sep

03

2014

Airlock-like transport protein structure discovered

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Audio Stanford, CA —Sugars are an essential source of energy for microrganisms, animals, and humans. They are produced by plants, which convert energy from sunlight into chemical energy in the form of sugars through photosynthesis. These sugars are ...

Aug

27

2014

Carnegie Ranked Top Charity for Thirteenth Year

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Aug

22

2014

Calcium and reproduction go together

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Audio Stanford, CA —Everyone’s heard of the birds and the bees. But that old expression leaves out the flowers that are being fertilized. The fertilization process for flowering plants is particularly complex and requires extensive communication ...

Aug

20

2014

Jan Brown Passes Away on August 16th

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Jeanette Snyder Brown March 6, 1925 — August 16, 2014

Jun

09

2014

Water found to provide blueprints for root architecture

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Audio Stanford, CA —Soil is a microscopic maze of nooks and crannies that hosts a wide array of life. Plants explore this environment by developing a complex branched network of roots that tap into scarce resources such as water and nutrients. How ...

Jun

05

2014

AD: Scientists shed light on braking mechanisms in cellular signaling

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Stanford, CA — A team of researchers studying a flowering plant has zeroed in on the way cells manage external signals about prevailing conditions, a capability that is essential for cells to survive in a fluctuating environment. Researchers at UC ...

Jun

05

2014

MAD: Scientists shed light on braking mechanisms in cellular signaling

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Audio Stanford, CA — A team of researchers studying a flowering plant has zeroed in on the way cells manage external signals about prevailing conditions, a capability that is essential for cells to survive in a fluctuating environment. Researchers ...

May

15

2014

Communicating with the world across the border

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Audio Stanford, CA —All living cells are held together by membranes, which provide a barrier to the transport of nutrients. They are also the communication platform connecting the outside world to the cell’s interior control centers. Thousands of ...

May

01

2014

Decoding the chemical vocabulary of plants

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Audio Stanford, CA —Plants spend their entire lifetime rooted to one spot. When faced with a bad situation, such as a swarm of hungry herbivores or a viral outbreak, they have no option to flee but instead must fight to survive. What is the key to ...

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