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Science Highlights

Building with DNA Tinker Toys
What Makes a Giant Molecule Stable?
New Insights into the Mechanisms Underlying Lysosomal Disease and Ebola Infection
Improving the Braids that Bind Uranium from Seawater
A New Way to See Proteins in Motion (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center press release)
Detailing the Molecular Roots of Alzheimer’s Disease (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis press release)
How Your Body Transports Zinc to Protect Your Health (University of Virginia press release)
Protein Structure Could Lead to Better Treatments for HIV, Early Aging
Cool Muscles: Storing Elastic Energy for Flight
Unlocking a Liver Receptor Puzzle (Woodruff Health Sciences Center news release)
Anomalously Large Charge Transfer in an Atomic Layer Cake of Transition Metal Oxides
The Most Detailed Model of the Brain Receptor Behind Marijuana’s High (UT Southwestern Medical Center press release)
Targeting a New Enzyme to Advance the Treatment of Tuberculosis (John Hopkins University School of Medicine press release)
Natural Building Blocks for New Catalysts
A New 3-D Design for Mobile Microbatteries (CNRS press release)
Solving the Structure of a Key DNA Replication Protein (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital press release)
Flipped Crystals May Aid Solar Cells (Rice University/Los Alamos National Laboratory press releases)
The Structure of a Hydrogen-Stuffed, Quartz-Like Form of Ice (Carnegie Institution of Washington press release)
Straining is Better for Catalytic Reactions
The Twisted Liaison Between Magnetism and Superconductivity
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