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Modified crops reveal hidden cost of resistance

Modified crops reveal hidden cost of resistance

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Genetically modified squash plants that are resistant to a debilitating viral disease become more vulnerable to a fatal bacterial infection, according to biologists.





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Wild pigs and deer do not spread GM corn via feces or accumulate transgenic residues in meat

Biology / Other

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Deer stew, roast of wild boar, venison ragout - come fall, all varieties of game are in season for gourmets. However, ever since the worldwide surge in genetically modified corn, critical consumers' appetites have abated ...


Crops and Weeds: Climate Change's First Responders

Crops and Weeds: Climate Change's First Responders

Biology / Other

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant physiologists is studying how global climate change could affect food crop production--and prompt the evolution of even more resilient weeds.


Scientists decipher the formation of lasting memories

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered a mechanism that controls the brain's ability to create lasting memories. In experiments on genetically manipulated mice, they ...


Scientists successfully reprogram blood cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers have transplanted genetically modified hematopoietic stem cells into mice so that their developing red blood cells produce a critical lysosomal enzyme -preventing or reducing organ and central nervous system damage ...


Gene therapy technique slows brain disease

Gene therapy technique slows ALD brain disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A strategy that combines gene therapy with blood stem cell therapy may be a useful tool for treating a fatal brain disease, French researchers have found. These findings appear in the 6 November 2009 issue ...


Yeast in a shell: Coating individual living yeast cells with silicon dioxide

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Our breakfast egg is a peculiarity of nature: a single cell protected by a thin mineral layer. Apart from a number of tiny radiolaria and diatoms, individual cells normally do not have a hard shell. Korean ...


Termites? gut reactions show how to improve renewable fuel, researchers say

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Termite damage costs the U.S. more than $1 billion each year, but that same destructive power might help solve one of the nation’s most pressing economic quandaries: sustainable fuel production.


Sweet -- sugared polymer a new weapon against allergies and asthma

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at Johns Hopkins and their colleagues have developed sugar-coated polymer strands that selectively kill off cells involved in triggering aggressive allergy and asthma attacks. Their advance is a significant step ...


Scientists reveal a new mechanism that increases atherosclerosis in mice

Scientists reveal a new mechanism that increases atherosclerosis in mice

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For all the good it does, a liver protein that senses and gets rid of drugs and pollutants from our body has a downside. For the first time, it has been shown that when it is chronically activated, ...


Wistar researchers show targeting 'normal' cells in tumors slows growth

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Targeting the normal cells that surround cancer cells within and around a tumor is a strategy that could greatly increase the effectiveness of traditional anti-cancer treatments, say researchers at The Wistar Institute.



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