Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 2001
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1-Jan-2001
Systems biology
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORNL scientists are conducting research in functional genomics—the study of genomes to
determine the biological function of all the genes and their products—and proteomics—the
study of the full set of proteins encoded by a genome.
19-Dec-2000
The crystal robot
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Innovative robotics designed and built by Lab
researchers will grow protein crystals for
experimentation at a rate once only dreamed of.
19-Dec-2000
Picturing proteins
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Electron microscopy and spectroscopy techniques are
making it possible for scientists to create 3-D images of
protein complexes that are unsuitable for x-ray
crystallography.
19-Dec-2000
The machinery of life
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Scientists are using Berkeley Lab's state-of-the-art imaging resources to gain new insight into the structure and function of proteins, including those involved in cystic fibrosis.
19-Dec-2000
Circuits of a cell
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Scientists investigate the biochemical "circuitry" of cells.
19-Dec-2000
Seeing the cell nucleus in 3-D
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A new microscopic program called daVinci is helping
researchers better understand how breast cancer
develops.
19-Dec-2000
Form follows sequence
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Powerful new computational tools, such as those
available at nersc, are playing a key role in deciphering
the molecular dynamics of proteins, including creating
"movies" of proteins in motion.
13-Dec-2000
UK's ZeTek, ORNL technology Tennessee-bound
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryReports and Proceedings
ZeTek Power Corp. will soon
be using technology licensed from the Department of Energy’s
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and setting up shop in
East Tennessee.
16-Nov-2000
Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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