 Japanese clone mouse from frozen cell, aim for mammoths November 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Japanese scientists said Tuesday they had created a mouse from a dead cell frozen for 16 years, taking a step in the long impossible dream of bringing back extinct animals such as mammoths. | |
 Starving and penniless, Ethiopian farmers rue biofuel choice November 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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With a slight reeling in his gait, Ashenafi Chote ventures into his small plot of land and shakes his head, his eyes full of regret: "I made a mistake". | |
Completely novel action of insulin unveiled November 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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A PhD student at Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research has uncovered an important piece in the puzzle of how insulin works, a problem that has plagued researchers for more than 50 years. This finding brings us one ... | |
 Plants grow bigger and more vigorously through changes in their internal clocks November 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Hybrid plants, like corn, grow bigger and better than their parents because many of their genes for photosynthesis and starch metabolism are more active during the day, report researchers from The University ... | |
Stephen Hawking named to Canada's Perimeter Institute November 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Famed physicist Stephen Hawking has been appointed to the position of distinguished research chair at Canada's leading scientific brain trust, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics announced Thursday. | |
 African, Asian join the library of genomics November 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Laboratories have for the first time sequenced the full genetic code of an African and an Asian in what amounts to a major step towards the goal of a tailor-made profile of one's DNA. | |
Robots show that brain activity is linked to time as well as space November 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Humanoid robots have been used to show that that functional hierarchy in the brain is linked to time as well as space. Researchers from RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan, have created a new type of neural network model ... | |
 Scientists Sequence Woolly-Mammoth Genome November 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Penn State are leaders of a team that is the first to report the genome-wide sequence of an extinct animal, according to Webb Miller, professor of biology and of computer science ... | |
Mammals can be stimulated to regrow damaged inner retina nerve cells November 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have reported for the first time that mammals can be stimulated to regrow inner nerve cells in their damaged retinas. Located in the back of the eye, the retina's role in vision ... | |
 Wild beavers return to Britain after 400 years November 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Four families of beavers have arrived in Britain for a landmark project which will see them introduced into the wild here for the first time in over 400 years, experts said Friday. | |
Salmon-tracking network challenges conventional wisdom November 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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They were two of the 1,000 juvenile salmon implanted with almond-sized transmitters as they headed out of the Rocky Mountains, down the Snake River bound for the sea. | |
 Death by hyperdisease: DNA detective work explains the extinction of Christmas Island's native rats November 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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It took less than a decade for native rats to become extinct on the Indian Ocean's previously uninhabited Christmas Island once Eurasian black rats jumped ship onto the island at the turn of the 20th century. ... | |
21st Century detective work reveals how ancient rock got off to a hot start November 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new X-ray technique has enabled scientists to "play detective" and solve the debate about the origins of a three-billion-year-old rock fragment. | |
 Can an ant be employee of the month? November 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Ants specializing on one job such as snatching food from a picnic are no more efficient than "Jane-of-all-trade" ants, according to new research. | |
 New penguin species found in New Zealand November 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian and New Zealand researchers have used ancient DNA from penguin fossils to make a startling discovery that may change the way we view species extinctions. | |
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