News tagged with fighting ability
Clicking knees are antelopes' way of saying 'back off'
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Nov 03, 2008 |
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Knee clicking can establish mating rights among antelopes. A study of eland antelopes, published in the open access journal BMC Biology, has uncovered the dominance displays used by males to settle disput ...
UCSB study finds physical strength, fighting ability revealed in human faces
Oct 22, 2008 |
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For our ancestors, misjudging the physical strength of a would-be opponent might have resulted in painful –– and potentially deadly –– defeat.
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Marijuana ingredients show promise in battling superbugs
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Substances in marijuana show promise for fighting deadly drug-resistant bacterial infections, including so-called "superbugs," without causing the drug's mood-altering effects, scientists in Italy and the United Kingdom are ...
Why do animals, especially males, have so many different colors?
Oct 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In new research, UCLA scientists claim that "secondary sexual traits" like coloring may let animals know which species to avoid fighting.
Fighting Aussie yabbies don't forget a face
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Feb 28, 2008 |
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The fighting Australian yabby does not forget the face of its foes says new research from University of Melbourne zoologists.
Researchers use chemical from medicinal plants to fight HIV
Nov 10, 2008 |
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Like other kinds of cells, immune cells lose the ability to divide as they age because a part of their chromosomes known as a telomere becomes progressively shorter with cell division. As a result, the cell changes in many ...
Study shows how camels keep their cool
Jul 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ research has found when it comes to camels, staying cool may be the key to reproductive success.
Crime fighting potential for computerised lip-reading
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 21, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of East Anglia are about to embark on an innovative new project to develop computer lip-reading systems that could be used for fighting crime.
Drug/radiation combo may help shrink established tumors
Aug 25, 2008 |
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Researchers may be closer to understanding why anti-cancer drugs such as Ipilimumab, which boost the tumor-killing power of immune cells, haven't fared well in clinical trials. The new study, which describes a way to enhance ...
New hope for HIV treatment: Cells exhausted from fighting HIV infection can be revitalized
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 10, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of California, San Francisco, have revealed new hope for HIV treatment with the discovery of a way to 'rescue' immune cells that are exhausted from fighting off ...
Superbugs, shapes and nanotechnology
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 06, 2007 |
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A common hospital superbug called Clostridium has a protective coat of armour that can self assemble when put into a test tube on its own, which may have important commercial uses in nanotechnology, according to scientists ...
New way to fight drug-resistant fungal infections discovered
Jul 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The secret to fighting often lethal drug resistant fungal infections is to knock out the bug's molecular chaperone, according to U of T researchers.
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