#Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Author: Cassie Martin / Source: Science News Unusual virus is valuable tool — Viruses, which cannot reproduce on their own, infect cells and usurp their genetic machinery for use in making new viruses…. But just how viruses use the cell machinery is unknown.… Some answers may come from work with

Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network Rather than keeping the massive sum of money that was awarded to him as a Nobel laureate, this college educator has decided to pay it all forward to his students. George Smith, an emeritus professor of biology at the University of Missouri

Author: Kate Whiting / Source: Big Think Imagine a future lit by bioluminescent LEDs that not only use fewer of Earth’s resources to manufacture, but also improve your mood by mimicking the sun throughout the day. It could be closer than you think, according to Dr Rubén Costa, a young scientist

Author: Laurel Hamers / Source: Science News Techniques that put natural evolution on fast-forward to build new proteins in the lab have earned three scientists this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry. Frances Arnold of Caltech won for her method of creating customized enzymes for biofuels,

Author: Tina Hesman Saey / Source: Science News Frances Arnold of Caltech, George Smith of the University of Missouri in Columbia and Gregory Winter of the University of Cambridge have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for speeding up evolution to make proteins with new and useful properties. Such