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Scientists use virus to kill cancer cells while leaving normal cells intact

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A virus that in nature infects only rabbits could become a cancer-fighting tool for humans. Myxoma virus kills cancerous blood-precursor cells in human bone marrow while sparing normal blood stem cells, a ...


Birds Call to Warn Friends and Enemies

Biology / Plants & Animals

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Birds' alarm calls serve both to alert other birds to danger and to warn off predators. And some birds can pull a ventriloquist's trick, singing from the side of their mouths, according to a UC Davis study.


BirdsEye -- a new iPhone app -- resolves your rapture for raptors or finding a finch

Biology / Other

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Looking for larks? Searching for surfbirds? Checking for chickadees? There's an app for that.


Acculturation influences smoking cessation by Latino men

Medicine & Health / Health

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Latino men who are more adapted to U.S. culture are more likely to quit smoking than their less-acculturated counterparts, according to research by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center published ...


Researchers identify gene that spurs deadly brain cancer

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have identified a new factor that is necessary for the development of many forms of medulloblastoma, the most common type of malignant childhood brain cancer.


Species down, disease up: Study shows biodiversity loss drives human infections

Biology / Ecology

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The extinction of plant and animal species can be likened to emptying a museum of its collection, or dumping a cabinet full of potential medicines into the trash, or replacing every local cuisine with McDonald's burgers.


Random DNA mix-ups not so random in cancer development

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine have pinpointed a mechanism that may help explain how chromosomal translocations - the supposedly random shuffling of large chunks of DNA that frequently lead to cancer - ...


Researchers find long awaited key to creating drought resistant crops

Biology / Biotechnology

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Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have determined precisely how the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) works at the molecular level to help plants respond to environmental stresses such as drought and cold. ...


Fish with attitude: Some like it hot

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Coral reef fish can undergo a personality change in warmer water, according to an intriguing new study suggesting that climate change may make some species more aggressive.


Ted Turner gets OK for Yellowstone bison on ranch (AP)

Ted Turner gets OK for Yellowstone bison on ranch

Biology / Ecology

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(AP) -- The head of Montana's wildlife agency has given preliminary approval to a plan calling for 74 bison from Yellowstone National Park to go to billionaire Ted Turner's private ranch.



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