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The day-to-day tasks of scientific research are rarely glamorous. As Trevor Rife worked towards his PhD in genetics, he had to extract DNA from freeze-dried tissue by grinding it in a 96-well plate. The process wasn’t difficult — it involved placing a ceramic bead into each well by hand, then capping the plate and shaking
Physicians test new narcolepsy treatments by checking whether the drugs help people to fall asleep and stay asleep throughout the night.Credit: Lucia Graphus/Alamy Earlier this month, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first drug designed to treat the root cause of narcolepsy, a condition that affects millions of people by causing extreme sleepiness
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Researchers found a four-carbon sugar called erythrulose in a cloud of gas and dust at the center of the Milky Way (Spitzer Space Telescope image shown here).Credit: NASA, Caltech, Susan Stolovy (SSC, Caltech) Call it an extra sweet discovery. Astronomers have detected a sugar molecule swirling within a cloud of gas and dust near the