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E-Blast Tuesday 08.14.12   Breaking Story Research Shows How Computation Can Predict Group Conflict   Today's Video The X-Ray Fluorescence Lab   Picture of the Day Snowy Egret   New Today on Science360 Radio "Science Of Synthetic Biology," With Biologist & Former NSF Awardee Craig Venter   Latest News Scientists 'Tag And Track' Genetic Processes Scientists have used fluorescent molecules to "tag" DNA and monitor a process called DNA looping, a natural biological mechanism involved in rearranging genetic material in some types of cells. Unraveling Intricate Interactions, One Molecule At A Time Researchers have made the first single-molecule measurement of Van Der Waals interactions at a metal-organic interface. Harmful Enzymes May Attack One Another Instead Of Harming Body Proteins For the first time scientists have shown that members of a family of enzymes known as cathepsins -- which are implicated in many disease processes -- may attack one another instead of the bodily proteins they normally degrade. New in the Journals & Magazines SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Highest Possible Resolution Color Images Achieved NATURE: Shark-tooth Weapons Reveal Lost Biodiversity DISCOVER: Big Idea: Bring Ancient Voices Back To Life PNAS: Ionic liquid Tolerance In A Rain Forest Bacterium NEW SCIENTIST: Synthetic 'Upgrade' For Fruit Fly's DNA   What the Blogs Are Saying Today ESCIENCECOMMONS - The Dark Lore Of Deadly Nightshade SCIENTIST AT WORK - An Antarctic State Of Mind NOBEL INTENT - Researchers Find Some Of The World's Earliest (Pre-Cambrian) Armor 80BEATS - True Or False: Illustrations Make Information More Believable THE PHYSICS ARXIV BLOG - How To Build A Phononic Computer Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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