 Wikipedia opens online library on human genes July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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A group of US researchers laid out the foundations Monday for a new online library on human genetics stored within the existing framework of open-access encyclopedia Wikipedia. | |
 Researchers Discover Remnant of an Ancient 'RNA World' July 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Some bacterial cells can swim, morph into new forms and even become dangerously virulent - all without initial involvement of DNA. Yale University researchers describe Friday in the journal ... | |
Privacy protections disappear with a judge's order July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Credit card companies know what you've bought. Phone companies know whom you've called. Electronic toll services know where you've gone. Internet search companies know what you've sought. | |
 Touching research: To improve robots, researcher eyes jellyfish July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biology professor Joseph Ayers is expanding his research on animals’ nervous systems that produced the RoboLobster and RoboLamprey to include a study on tactile sensory perception in jellyfish ... | |
 Scientists use genomic tools to create maps of DNA methylation July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Much of the field of stem cell biology and development remains uncharted territory. Just as famous explorers and astronomers mapped out landmasses and constellations, researchers are working ... | |
 Cancer forces Tasmanian devils to breed earlier July 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The little devils just can't wait. Faced with an epidemic of cancer that cuts their lives short, Tasmanian devils have begun breeding at younger ages, according to researchers at the University of ... | |
 Report: US behind in doubling science grads July 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(AP) -- A high-profile push by business groups to double the number of U.S. bachelor's degrees awarded in science, math and engineering by 2015 is falling way behind target, a new report says. | |
 Hundreds of baby penguins found dead in Brazil July 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday. | |
 Flatfish fossils fill in evolutionary missing link July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Hidden away in museums for more that 100 years, some recently rediscovered flatfish fossils have filled a puzzling gap in the story of evolution and answered a question that initially stumped even Charles ... | |
15 human genomes each week July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has sequenced the equivalent of 300 human genomes in just over six months. The Institute has just reached the staggering total of 1,000,000,000,000 letters of genetic code that will be ... | |
Cancer 'cure' in mice to be tested in humans June 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Scientists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are about to embark on a human trial to test whether a new cancer treatment will be as effective at eradicating cancer in humans as it has proven to be in mice. | |
 Electron microscopy enters the picometer scale 17 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Jülich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy. This makes it possible to find out decisive parameters ... | |
 Phoenix Returns Treasure Trove for Science June 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander performed its first wet chemistry experiment on Martian soil flawlessly yesterday, returning a wealth of data that for Phoenix scientists was like winning the lottery. | |
 Can you hear me now? July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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When it comes to cellular communication networks, a primitive single-celled microbe that answers to the name of Monosiga brevicollis has a leg up on animals composed of billions of cells. It commands a signaling ... | |
Study: Regular walking nearly halves elderly disability risk July 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Older adults can decrease their risk of disability and increase their likelihood of maintaining independence by 41 percent by participating in a walking exercise program, according to a new University of Georgia study. | |
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