 Worms do calculus to find meals or avoid unpleasantness July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they ... | |
 'Mind's eye' influences visual perception July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery—what we see with the "mind's eye"—directly impacts ... | |
 Supercomputer explores biochemical landscape to find memory switches June 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Switches are a part of daily life, from snoozing your alarm, turning on the coffee maker, firing up your car engine, and so on until we turn off the lights at night. Researchers have now cataloged even more ... | |
New technique produces genetically identical stem cells July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Adult cells of mice created from genetically reprogrammed cells—so-called induced pluripotent stem (IPS) stem cells—can be triggered via drug to enter an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, without the need for further genetic ... | |
 Microscopic 'clutch' puts flagellum in neutral June 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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A tiny but powerful engine that propels the bacterium Bacillus subtilis through liquids is disengaged from the corkscrew-like flagellum by a protein clutch, Indiana University Bloomington and Harvard ... | |
 Researchers coat titanium with polymer to improve integration of joint replacements July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Research at the Georgia Institute of Technology shows that coating a titanium implant with a new biologically inspired material enhances tissue healing, improves bone growth around the implant and strengthens ... | |
 Perfect Vision But Blind To Light June 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Mammals have two types of light-sensitive detectors in the retina. Known as rod and cone cells, they are both necessary to picture their environment. However, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological ... | |
Life-extending protein can also have damaging effects on brain cells July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Proteins widely believed to protect against aging can actually cause oxidative damage in mammalian brain cells, according to a new report in the July Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press. The findings suggest ... | |
 When threatened, a few African frogs can morph toes into claws June 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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At least 11 species kick at predators with sharp, protruding bones as a defense mechanism
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 Unique protein from an extremophilic organism discovered June 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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New light has been shed on the microbial life living in extreme environments. Research by Professor Peter Golyshin of Bangor University, and an international team, published in the prestigious scientific journal, ... | |
Cartilage regeneration '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' June 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Bioengineers at Rice University have discovered that intense pressure -- similar to what someone would experience more than a half-mile beneath the ocean's surface -- stimulates cartilage cells to grow new tissue with nearly ... | |
 Hunted, rammed, poisoned, whales may die from heartbreak too June 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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More than two decades after the start of a leaky moratorium on whale hunting, the most majestic of sea mammals have made little headway in recovering their once robust populations, say experts. | |
Study shows male homosexuality can be explained through a specific model of Darwinian evolution June 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Reporting in this week's PLoS ONE, an Italian research team, consisting of Andrea Camperio Ciani and Giovanni Zanzotto at the University of Padova and Paolo Cermelli at the University of Torino, found that the evolutionary ... | |
How female chimps call off the competition June 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Female chimps are more concerned with having sex with many different males than finding the strongest mate, according to researchers. | |
Bee disease a mystery June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Scientists are one step closer to understanding the recent demise of billions of honey bees after making an important discovery about the transmission of a common bee virus. Deformed wing virus (DWV) is passed between adult ... | |
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