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Hind wings help butterflies make swift turns to evade predators, study finds
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New tires allow race cars to take tight turns at high speeds. Hind wings give moths and butterflies similar advantages: They are not necessary for basic flight but help these creatures take tight turns to ...
Milkweed's evolutionary approach to caterpillars: Counter appetite with fast repair
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Jul 22, 2008 |
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The adage that your enemies know your weaknesses best is especially true in the case of plants and predators that have co-evolved: As the predators evolve new strategies for attack, plants counter with their own unique defenses.
Researcher shows evolution of milkweed defense system
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Jul 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The adage that your enemies know your weaknesses best is especially true in the case of plants and predators that have co-evolved: As the predators evolve new strategies for attack, plants ...
Common fish species has 'human' ability to learn
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Although worlds apart, the way fish learn could be closer to humans' way of thinking than previously believed, suggests a new research study.
Team approach appears to work best for insect colonies
Mar 27, 2009 |
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The study's findings appear to echo the insect worlds portrayed in the animated films Antz and Bee Movie, in which the characters live in rigidly conformist societies.
Scientists find that drug stimulated immune system in prostate cancer
Jun 02, 2008 |
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In a multi-site study, Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researchers have found that a drug called Ipilimumab, also known as MDX-010, works to stimulate the body's own immune system to fight prostate cancer. ...
States seek stop to 'little cigar' ads
May 19, 2006 |
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State governments want a U.S. federal ban on the marketing of cigarette-like products as "little cigars," saying tobacco firms use it to evade taxes.
Probing Question: How does antibiotic resistance happen?
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Before Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in 1928, there were any number of unpleasant ways that bacteria could kill you. Countless women died from infection after childbirth, and a simple chest cold could turn into ...
Leishmaniasis parasites evade death by exploiting the immune response to sand fly bites
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Aug 14, 2008 |
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis, a disease characterized by painful skin ulcers, occurs when the parasite Leishmania major, or a related species, is transmitted to a mammalian host by the bite of an infected sand fly. In a new st ...
How Montezuma gets his revenge
Jun 15, 2008 |
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Every year, about 500 million people worldwide are infected with the parasite that causes dysentery, a global medical burden that among infectious diseases is second only to malaria. In a new study appearing in the June 15 ...
Shared survival mechanism explains why 'good' nerve cells last and 'bad' cancer cells flourish
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Dec 15, 2008 |
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Cancer cells and nervous system neurons may not look or act alike, but both use strikingly similar ways to survive, according to new research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
Scientists find protein helps pancreatic cancer cells evade immune system and spread
Jan 11, 2008 |
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A protein that helps prevent a woman’s body from rejecting a fetus may also play an important role in enabling pancreatic cancer cells to evade detection by the immune system, allowing them to spread in the body.
The structure of resistance
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Feb 22, 2008 |
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A team of scientists from the University Paris Descartes has solved the structure of two proteins that allow bacteria to gain resistance to multiple types of antibiotics, according to a report in EMBO reports this month. ...
Mimic molecules to protect against plague
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Jul 04, 2008 |
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Bacteria that cause pneumonic plague can evade our first-line defences, making it difficult for the body to fight infection. In fact, a signature of the plague is the lack of an inflammatory response. Now, scientists have ...
Cost of hatchling turtles' dash for freedom
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Dec 12, 2008 |
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A newly hatched sea turtle's first swim is the most critical of its life. Having run the gauntlet of air and land predators to make it to the sea, the tiny voyager must also evade hungry fish patrolling the ...
