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Trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to grow, so forests have long been proposed as a way to offset climate change. But rather than just letting the forest sit there for a hundred or more years, the amount of carbon dioxide taken out of the atmosphere could be quadrupled in 100 years by harvesting regularly and using the wood in place of fossil-fuel intensive steel and concrete.

Sodium channels are pores in the membranes of excitable cells 鈥 such as brain nerve cells or beating heart cells 鈥 that emit electrical signals. Researchers have obtained a high-resolution crystal structure showing all the atoms of this complex protein molecule and how they relate in three-dimensions.

Students overall performed better 鈥 and educationally disadvantaged students generally made even greater strides than everyone else 鈥 in an introductory biology course at the 91探花 where recent budget woes doubled class sizes for the course, cut lab times and reduced the number of graduate teaching assistants.