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  • Biologists discover function of gene linked to familial ALS

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    May 7, 2018
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    Study in worms reveals gene loss can lead to accumulation of waste products in cells. MIT biologists have discovered a function of a gene that is believed to account for up to 40 percent of all familial cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Studies of ALS patients have shown that an abnormally expanded region of…

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  • With The Herman Project, home bakers become citizen scientists

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    April 12, 2018
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    Network tracks the evolution of microbial communitites in sourdough starter mixtures shared around the world. Researchers from MIT are taking their microbial research out of the lab and into the kitchen. Their new Herman Project modernizes a longstanding tradition, with a digital network that tracks the evolution of sourdough starters as they are shared by…

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  • Scientists find different cell types contain the same enzyme ratios

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    March 29, 2018
    MIT-GeneWei Li March 2018

    New discovery suggest that all life may share a common design principle. By studying bacteria and yeast, researchers at MIT have discovered that vastly different types of cells still share fundamental similarities, conserved across species and refined over time. More specifically, these cells contain the same proportion of specialized proteins, known as enzymes, which coordinate…

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