12 new species discovered in Brazil April 29, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Researchers discovered a legless lizard and a tiny woodpecker along with 12 other suspected new species in Brazil’s Cerrado, one of the world’s 34 biodiversity conservation hotspots. | |
Stressed seaweed contributes to cloudy coastal skies, study suggests May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Scientists at The University of Manchester have helped to identify that the presence of large amounts of seaweed in coastal areas can influence the climate. | |
Unraveling the Genomic Code for Development May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have produced the first complete description of the complex network of genes that create a particular type of cell in an organism. | |
Prions show their good side May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Prions, the infamous agents behind mad cow disease and its human variation, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, also have a helpful side. According to new findings from Gerald Zamponi and colleagues, normally functioning prions prevent ... | |
 Female concave-eared frogs draw mates with ultrasonic calls May 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Most female frogs don’t call; most lack or have only rudimentary vocal cords. A typical female selects a mate from a chorus of males and then –silently – signals her beau. But the female concave-eared torrent ... | |
 Diatoms discovered to remove phosphorus from oceans May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new way that phosphorus is naturally removed from the oceans – its stored in diatoms. The discovery opens up a new realm of research into ... | |
Insulin pill could replace injections for diabetes April 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Insulin pills to replace the injections necessary for those suffering from diabetes appear closer to reality through new research by chemical and biomedical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin. | |
 Biochips can detect cancers before symptoms develop May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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In their fight against cancer, doctors have just gained an impressive new weapon to add to their arsenal. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed a chip that ... | |
 Glowing sugars light up zebrafish May 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Using artificial sugar and some clever chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, researchers have made glow-in-the-dark fish whose internal light comes from the sugar coating on their cells. | |
Human vision inadequate for research on bird vision May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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The most attractive male birds attract more females and as a result are most successful in terms of reproduction. This is the starting point of many studies looking for factors that influence sexual selection in birds. However, ... | |
 Monarch butterflies help explain why parasites harm hosts May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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It’s a paradox that has confounded evolutionary biologists since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859: Since parasites depend on their hosts for survival, why do they harm them? | |
 Warming up for Magnetic Resonance Imaging May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Standard magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, is a superb diagnostic tool but one that suffers from low sensitivity, requiring patients to remain motionless for long periods of time inside noisy, claustrophobic ... | |
 New clues to how proteins dissolve and crystallize May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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In the late 19th century the Czech scientist Franz Hofmeister observed that some salts (ionic compounds) aided the solution of proteins in egg white, some caused the proteins to destabilize and precipitate, ... | |
Researchers create heart and blood cells from reprogrammed skin cells April 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Stem cell researchers at UCLA were able to grow functioning cardiac cells using mouse skin cells that had been reprogrammed into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells. The finding is the first to ... | |
 US Patent Office rejects company's claim for bean commonly grown by Latin American farmers April 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today rejected all of the patent claims for a common yellow bean that has been a familiar staple in Latin American diets for more than a century. | |
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