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Table grapes' new ally: Muscodor albus

Small but mighty, a beneficial microbe called Muscodor albus may help protect fresh grapes from troublesome gray mold. Experiments conducted over the past several years by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant pathol ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Helpful yeast battles food-contaminating aflatoxin

Pistachios, almonds and other popular tree nuts might someday be routinely sprayed with a yeast called Pichia anomala. Laboratory and field studies by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant physiologist Sui-Sheng (Sylvi ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 27, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Discovering Autism: Homing in on the right label

When autism researchers arrived at Norristown State Hospital near Philadelphia a few years ago, they found a 63-year-old man who rambled on about Elvis Presley, compulsively rocked in his chair and patted the corridor walls.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Custom glass bending

The possible applications for curved glass panels are many and varied – ranging from facades to designer furniture. Researchers have now developed a process which enables the panels to be shaped six times ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Jobs questioned authority all his life, book says (Update)

(AP) -- A new biography portrays Steve Jobs as a skeptic all his life - giving up religion because he was troubled by starving children, calling executives who took over Apple "corrupt" and delaying cancer ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 10

Samsung Introduced New MP3 Players With Transparent Touch AMOLED Display

Samsung Electronics recently unveiled two MP3 players designed for the media savvy and those concerned with managing their personal well-being.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Advance in the battle against 'gray mold'

Scientists are reporting identification of the cluster of genes responsible for the toxins produced by "gray mold," a devastating plant disease that kills almost 200 different food and ornamental plants including ...

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created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Brown chemist finds gray mold's killer gene

Gray mold is a gardener's nightmare. The fungus, also known by its scientific name Botrytis cinerea, is a scourge to more than 200 agricultural and ornamental plant species, including staples such as tomato ...

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created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Probing Question: What is colorblindness?

Midnight Blue, Burnt Orange, Aquamarine. Since 1903, Crayola crayons -- with their fanciful names and hundreds of hues -- have introduced generations of American children to the nuanced beauty of the color spectrum. Imagine ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 31, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Fruit Cell Wall Proteins Help Fungus Turn Tomatoes From Ripe to Rotten

Using tomatoes as a research plant, scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered that two plant enzymes that occur in the plant's cell walls cooperate with each other to make ripe fruit more susceptible ...

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created Jan 23, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Are gender differences predetermined?

In the Vienna of 1924, Sigmund Freud wrote, "Anatomy is destiny." Fast-forward to the 21st century culture of genome-mapping, Web-surfing and gender-bending. How well, we might ask, is Freud's famous dictum holding up? When ...

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created Jun 09, 2005 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0


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