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Automatic “evolution machine” creates more efficient enzymes on a microchip
Posted by Ed Yong on April 7, 2008
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Our bodies are serviced by a huge workforce of enzymes, which speed up the chemical reactions that rage within our cells. These enzymes have been crafted into a vast array of shapes and functions over millions of years of evolution but new ones can be generated on a microchip using the same principles. Early attempts…
How sharks, penguins and bacteria find food in the big, wide ocean
Posted by Ed Yong on March 11, 2008 Some of us have enough trouble finding the food we want among the ordered aisles of a supermarket. Now imagine that the supermarket itself is in the middle of a vast, featureless wasteland and is constantly on the move, and you begin to appreciate the challenges faced by animals in the open ocean. Thriving habitats…