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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the University of Wisconsin and Michigan State University (MSU) $125 million to continue their work on advanced biofuels. The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), housed at UW-Madison and includes a major partnership with MSU, will use the five-year grant to continue its work providing the basic [...]
In an announcement today, scientists said they are now more confident that the particle discovered last year in experiments done at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is indeed the Higgs boson. The subject of years of research, the Higgs boson is the elusive particle that is thought to explain what gives mass to matter and [...]
Marginal lands – those unsuited for food crops – can serve as prime real estate for meeting the nation’s alternative energy production goals. In the current issue of Nature, a team of researchers led by Michigan State University (MSU) shows that marginal lands represent a huge untapped resource to grow mixed species cellulosic biomass, plants [...]
As scientists from different disciplines and regions help design a world-class nuclear research facility at Michigan State University (MSU), a team of MSU researchers will conduct one of the first major studies of how teams work together. Using surveys, interviews and high-tech devices that monitor interaction, the researchers will study teamwork among the many groups [...]
A team of researchers led by David Kramer, Hannah Distinguished Professor of Photosynthesis and Bioenergetics, has discovered how to give the plant enzyme ATP synthase increased function so it works during both the daytime and nighttime. The discovery, featured in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, shows that plants evolved [...]
The discovery of a new gene is helping scientists envision more-efficient molecular factories of the future. A team of researchers, led by Katherine Osteryoung, MSU plant biologist, announced the discovery of Clumped Chloroplasts – a new class of proteins – in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. CLMP1 plays a [...]
Stopping the spread of radioactive Uranium and other harmful pollutants can be achieved with the use of protein nanowires produced on the outside of a group of bacteria called Geobacter, scientists at Michigan State University have determined. The nanowires, or pili, are hair-like protein appendages with electrical conductivity and can, by themselves, catalyze the process [...]
The US Department of Energy awarded Thomas Hamann, assistant professor of chemistry, an Early Career Research Award – a five-year award providing support to outstanding researchers during the early years of their careers. Hamann was among 69 scientists selected from 1,150 applicants. His award is for research on “Molecular and Material Approaches to Overcome Kinetic [...]
The US Department of Energy awarded Pengpeng Zhang, assistant professor of physics, an Early Career Research Award – a five-year award providing support to outstanding researchers during the early years of their careers. Zhang was among 67 scientists selected from 1,150 applicants. Zhang’s award will fund research into the use of molecular self-assembly to modify the electrical [...]
Michael Thomashow, director of the Plant Research Lab, has proven that circadian rhythms spark plants’ ability to fend off cold weather. The research was published in the April 6, 2011 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Just as monarch butterflies depend on circadian cues to begin their annual migration, so [...]
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