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Infectious proteins that cause brain-wasting diseases such as BSE can evolve, even though they contain no genetic information, researchers say.

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Investor's Business Daily - With more children playing video games, educators are increasingly partnering with game developers to create interactive ways to explain molecular biology or space. One new game called Immune Attack is a first-person shooter in which the targets are proteins on veins' interior surfaces. Another game designed in conjunction with NASA, MoonBase Alpha, requires players to use math and scientific thinking to overcome challenges that astronauts might face one day.

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Engineers at McMaster University in Hamilton have built a palm-sized device that can automatically inject proteins or drugs into a series of individual cells like an assembly line.

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After a decades-long search, researchers say they have finally found an elusive group of proteins that help plants survive stresses such as drought, cold and heat that may increase with climate change.

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U.S. scientists say chlorine bleach works as a household disinfectant because it attacks proteins in bacteria, causing them to clump together into a mass much like proteins do in a boiled egg.

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