Make your own microfluidic device with new kit from U-M 20 hours ago | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A type of device called a "lab-on-a-chip" could bring a new generation of instant home tests for illnesses, food contaminants and toxic gases. But today these portable, efficient tools are often stuck in the lab themselves. ... | |
Plant steroids offer new paradigm for how hormones work 22 hours ago | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Steroids bulk up plants just as they do human athletes, but the playbook of molecular signals that tell the genes to boost growth and development in plant cells is far more complicated than in human and animal cells. A new ... | |
Prevailing theory of aging challenged in Stanford worm study 23 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Age may not be rust after all. Specific genetic instructions drive aging in worms, report researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Their discovery contradicts the prevailing theory that aging is a buildup ... | |
Consortium develops new method enabling routine targeted gene modification 24 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A multi-institutional team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has developed a powerful new tool for genomic research and medicine – a robust method for generating synthetic enzymes that can target particular ... | |
New study of gene evolution could lead to better understanding of neurodegenerative disease 24 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Genetic evolution is strongly shaped by genes' efforts to prevent or tolerate errors in the production of proteins, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University have found. | |
Various species' genes evolve to minimize protein production errors July 24, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Scientists at Harvard University and the University of Texas at Austin have found that genetic evolution is strongly shaped by genes' efforts to prevent or tolerate errors in protein production. | |
 NIST Trumps the Clumps: Making Biologic Drugs Safer July 23, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a technique to measure the formation of clumps of proteins in protein-based pharmaceuticals. This first systematic study clarifies ... | |
 Study shows parasites outweigh predators July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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In a study of free-living and parasitic species in three estuaries on the Pacific coast of California and Baja California, a team of researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, the United ... | |
 Dinosaurrific! New Dinosaur Supertree July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been debated whether dinosaurs were part of the ‘Terrestrial Revolution’ that occurred some 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous when birds, mammals, flowering plants, insects ... | |
Sex and lifespan linked in worms: A family of sugar-like molecules controls both July 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A group of scientists who set out to study sex pheromones in a tiny worm found that the same family of pheromones also controls a stage in the worms' life cycle, the long-lived dauer larva. | |
Hybrid 'Muttsucker' Has Genes of Three Species July 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
In the murky waters of an inconspicuous stream in a remote area of Wyoming, researchers detail the potential impact that an introduced fish, the white sucker, could have on the evolutionary biology of fishes. | |
One missing gene leads to fruitless mating rituals July 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Male fruit flies missing a gene for one particular odor receptor become clueless in matters of love, scientists at Duke University Medical Center have discovered. | |
 Biofilms use chemical weapons July 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Bacteria rarely come as loners; more often they grow in crowds and squat on surfaces where they form a community together. These so-called biofilms develop on any surface that bacteria can attach themselves ... | |
Biology enters 'The Matrix' through new computer language July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Ever since the human genome was sequenced less than 10 years ago, researchers have been able to access a dizzying plethora of genomic information with a simple click of a mouse. This digitizing of genomic data—and its public ... | |
Rutgers biologist to study worms in Amazon, glaciers July 23, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Look out, Indiana Jones. Dan Shain is redefining the term "summer action hero" with voyages to frozen glaciers and the steamy Amazon planned, all in the name of scientific research. | |
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