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New CRISPR Technology ‘Knocks Out’ Yeast Genes With Single-Point Precision

The CRISPR-Cas9 system has given researchers the power to precisely edit selected genes. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois have used it to develop a technology that can target any gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and turn it off by deleting single letters from its DNA sequence.

Atomically Thin Magnetic Device Could Lead to New Memory Technologies

Magnetic materials are the backbone of modern digital information technologies, such as hard-disk storage. A University of Washington-led team has now taken this one step further by encoding information using magnets that are just a few layers of atoms in thickness.

Engineers Studying Nanodefects Suspected of Causing Early Failures of Electrical Materials

Xiaoli Tan, an Iowa State University professor of materials science and engineering, is working to be the first to see and record how nanoscale defects in electrical insulators may evolve into material breakdowns.

Good Things Come in Threes: Another Physics Student Wins DOE Award

For the third consecutive year, an NIU student in physics has landed a prestigious graduate student research award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.

Theory for One Type of Superconductor Solves Puzzle in Another

A 2017 theory proposed by Rice University physicists to explain the contradictory behavior of an iron-based high-temperature superconductor is helping solve a puzzle in a different type of unconventional superconductor, the “heavy fermion” compound known as CeCu2Si2.

When Lipids Meet Hormones: Plants' Answer to Complex Stresses

MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory scientists are connecting how plants harvest their own chloroplasts - photosynthesis machines that make their food - to help defend against outside threats.

DOE Supports PhD Student’s Research on an Elementary Particle

Samuel Homiller, a PhD student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Arts & Sciences at Stony Brook University is among a group of students selected nationally as a recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program award.

Primed for a Quantum Leap in Research

Scientists at the University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering are exploring a vast new field made possible by the ability to manipulate quantum systems.

Microbes Reveal How Humans Adjusted to a Changing Atmosphere

Ancient microbes that thrive in some of the world’s most extreme environments and modern-day humans have more in common than meets the eye—namely, they both respire and conserve energy using a similar molecular mechanism, one that has adapted to changing environmental conditions over billions of years.

Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cells are Highly Durable, Fuel Flexible

In the first long-term study of its kind, researchers from Colorado School of Mines have shown that the relatively new class of fuel cells exhibit both the long-term durability and fuel flexibility needed to become a viable commercial alternative to other existing fuel cell technologies.

Q&A: Graduate Student Awarded Department of Energy Fellowship

A graduate student here at Oregon State University was recently awarded a fellowship from the United States Department of Energy. Funded by the DOE’s office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration, the recipient of the fellowship, Lawrence Roy, will have his studies towards a doctoral degree in computer graphics paid for in full for up to four years.

Nuclear Engineering Program Collaborating in Energy Frontier Research Center

The Ohio State University is a collaborator on a new U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC). A cohort of 42 new and renewed centers announced in June 2018 have been established to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to strengthen U.S. economic leadership and energy security.