Natural polyester makes new sutures stronger, safer

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A Cambridge biotechnology company plans to market absorbable, super strong sutures produced using a recombinant DNA technique developed at MIT. Photo © Jeffery Titcomb Studio

With the help of a new type of suture based on MIT research, patients who get stitches may never need to have them removed.

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Sweet smell of success: Israelis enhance scent of flowers

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Israeli scientists said Monday they have discovered a way to genetically enhance the scent of flowers, a development that could also be used to breed extra-tasty fruits and vegetables.

Metastatic movements in 3-D

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Caswell et al.report in the Journal of Cell Biology how the altered behavior of integrins can prompt metastatic movement in tumor cells.

Recordings aim to capture calls of the wild West

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(AP) -- Rattlesnakes aren't to be trifled with, but if you're trying to collect the sound of every creature in the West that slithers, hops, flies or flops, distance isn't a luxury you can afford.

Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat

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(AP) -- Laura Gadd pauses at the edge of a pristine savanna, delicately lifting her feet to avoid trampling any venus flytraps hidden underfoot.

Food for thought -- regulating energy supply to the brain during fasting

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If the current financial climate has taught us anything, it's that a system where over-borrowing goes unchecked eventually ends in disaster. It turns out this rule applies as much to our bodies as it does to economics. Instead ...

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