Vancouver researchers discover missing link between TB bacteria and humans May 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have discovered how tuberculosis (TB) bacteria hide and multiply in the human body and are working toward a treatment to block ... | |
 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 ... | |
Mouse study: When it comes to living longer, it's better to go hungry than go running May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A study investigating aging in mice has found that hormonal changes that occur when mice eat significantly less may help explain an already established phenomenon: a low calorie diet can extend the lifespan of rodents, a ... | |
Researchers find natural section favors parasite fitness over host health May 12, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
Why do parasites harm their hosts? Classic evolutionary theory predicts that parasites become more virulent because they must transmit themselves between hosts, yet scientists have found little data to support this idea, ... | |
Window of opportunity for restoring oaks small, new study finds May 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Communities of Oregon white oak were once widespread in the Pacific Northwest’s western lowlands, but, today, they are in decline. Fire suppression, conifer and invasive plant encroachment, and land use change have resulted ... | |
Ancient protein offers clues to killer condition May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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More than 600 million years of evolution has taken two unlikely distant cousins – turkeys and scallops - down very different physical paths from a common ancestor. But University of Leeds researchers have found that a motor ... | |
Partnerships of Deep-Sea Methane Scavengers Revealed May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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The sea floor off the coast of Eureka, California, is home to a diverse assemblage of microbes that scavenge methane from cold deep-sea vents. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a technique ... | |
What's the difference between a human and a fruit fly? May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Fruit flies are dramatically different from humans not in their number of genes, but in the number of protein interactions in their bodies, according to scientists who have developed a new way of estimating the total number ... | |
Fish diet to avoid fights May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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People diet to look more attractive. Fish diet to avoid being beaten up, thrown out of their social group - and getting eaten as a result. | |
 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 ... | |
 Platypus genome explains animal's peculiar features; holds clues to evolution of mammals May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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The duck-billed platypus: part bird, part reptile, part mammal -- and the genome to prove it. An international consortium of scientists, led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has decoded ... | |
 Introducing 'Orange Bulldog' May 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Move over ‘Longface’, ‘Spooktacular’ and ‘Trickster’ - there’s a new face in the pumpkin patch. Welcome ‘Orange Bulldog’, a new variety of the familiar fall fruit that may soon be available to consumers and ... | |
Researchers discover architecture for fundamental processes of life May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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A team of Canadian researchers has completed a massive survey of the network of protein complexes that orchestrate the fundamental processes of life. In the online edition of the journal Science, researchers from the Université ... | |
 Scientists probe recent coyote attacks in California May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The coyote was limping as it approached a girl in a sand box at a public park - but it was still dangerous. It snapped its jaws on the girl's buttocks and her nanny had to pry the toddler from the ... | |
Mo. biologists to study snake movement, mortality May 12, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Snakes wouldn't be at the top of most people's favorite critter list. They're feared and misunderstood and often, killed. That's a shame, said Jason Lewis, a wildlife biologist at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge near ... | |
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