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Turning down gene expression promotes nerve cell maintenance »
Posted by: myfairlady 9 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Anyone with a sweet tooth knows that too much of a good thing can lead to negative consequences. The same can be said about the ...
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Microbe Metabolism Harnessed to Produce Fuel | »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 2 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Microbes such as the yeast we commonly use in baking bread and fermenting beer are now being engineered to produce the next generation of biofuels ...
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Arctic Lake Sediments Show Warming, Unique Ecological Changes In Recent Decades »
Posted by: alexanderhampp 1 month ago in News
An analysis of sediment cores indicates that biological and chemical changes occurring at a remote Arctic lake are unprecedented over the past 200,000 years ...
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Evolution Of New Brain Area Enables Complex Movements »
Posted by: myfairlady 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
A new area of the cerebral cortex has evolved to enable man and higher primates to pick up small objects and deftly use tools, according ...
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Physicist applies for sweeper's job in S Korea amid economic slump »
Posted by: myfairlady 10 months, 3 weeks ago in News
A jobless scientist with a doctorate in physics has applied for a street sweeper's job, reflecting the severe economic slump and rising unemployment, officials ...
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Dendritic Cells As New Player In Arteries And Heart Valves »
Posted by: myfairlady 9 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
In 1973, Ralph M. Steinman launched a new scientific discipline when he published his discovery of the dendritic cell, an odd-shaped player in the immune ...
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Dramatic Rise In Sea Level And Its Broad Ramifications Uncovered »
Posted by: myfairlady 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Scientists have found proof in Bermuda that the planet’s sea level was once more than 21 meters (70 feet) higher about 400,000 years ...
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Worldwide Grid Helps In Fight Against Heart Disease »
Posted by: myfairlady 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The latest work on the genetic causes of one of the world’s biggest killers, coronary artery disease, will be published in the March 2009 ...
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Why Silkworms Find Mulberries Attractive »
Posted by: myfairlady 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
A new study published online on May 7th in Current Biology has found the source of silkworms' attraction to mulberry leaves, their primary food source ...
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Getting More From Whole-transcript Microarrays »
Posted by: myfairlady 6 months ago in Science & Technology
The widely-used Affymetrix Whole-Transcript Gene 1.0 ST (sense target) microarray platform, normally used to assay gene expression, can also be utilized to interrogate exon-specific ...
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Key To Pre-eclampsia May Be Found In Misfolded Proteins In Urine »
Posted by: myfairlady 10 months ago in Health & Fitness
Clues to the cause of preeclampsia, a common, but serious hypertension complication of pregnancy that has puzzled doctors and researchers for decades, point to proteins ...
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Drop Dead, Gorgeous - The Hot N' Heavy »
Posted by: mattreep 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
There's a certain healthy desperation to the rapid-fire screamo of Drop Dead Gorgeous ' The Hot N' Heavy . Lead vocalist Danny "Stills" Stillman mixes the ...
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Researchers First To 'See' Reactive Oxygen Species In Vital Enzyme »
Posted by: myfairlady 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Using two simultaneous light-based probing techniques at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, a team of researchers has illuminated important ...
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Spectacular Recovery From Coral Bleaching At Great Barrier Reef Marine Park In Australia »
Posted by: myfairlady 7 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Marine scientists say they are astonished at the spectacular recovery of certain coral reefs in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park from a devastating ...
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Enzyme Quiz »
Posted by: rockurbody 8 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
The great quizzer is back with a bang and more questions.
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