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Watermelon: Fruit on the Fast Track

Watermelon: Fruit on the Fast Track

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are studying how watermelons grow from tiny flowers to plus-size, market-ready produce in only five weeks. Their findings have resulted in the ...


Scientists reveal connection between cancer and human evolution

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have discovered that gene mutations that once helped humans survive may increase the possibility for diseases, including cancer.


First sea trials for deep-ocean robotic DNA lab

First sea trials for deep-ocean robotic DNA lab

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In late April 2009, a team of MBARI researchers tested the world's only deep-sea robotic DNA lab beneath the waters of Monterey Bay.


Plant life not a villain in methane emissions debate

Plant life not a villain in methane emissions debate

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created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A comprehensive investigation of plant emissions led by University of South Australia molecular biologist Dr Ellen Nisbet has put pay to the assertion that plants are producing and releasing ...





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Enhanced sweet taste: This is your tongue on pot

Medicine & Health / Research

created 5 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New findings from the Monell Center and Kyushu University in Japan report that endocannabinoids act directly on taste receptors on the tongue to enhance sweet taste.


Bacteria make the artificial blood vessels of the future

Bacteria make the artificial blood vessels of the future

Medicine & Health / Research

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The cellulose produced by bacteria could be used for artificial blood vessels in the future as it carries a lower risk of blood clots than the synthetic materials currently used for bypass operations, reveals ...


More blood vessels in hormone-resistant prostate tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients with advanced prostate cancer are often treated with hormones, but when the tumours start growing again they have more and different blood vessels, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, at the University ...


Drug kills cells through novel mechanism

Drug kills cells through novel mechanism

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

MIT and Boston University researchers have discovered that the drug hydroxyurea kills bacteria by inducing them to produce molecules toxic to themselves — a conclusion that raises the possibility of finding ...


Introns: A mystery renewed

Introns: A mystery renewed

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The sequences of nonsense DNA that interrupt genes could be far more important to the evolution of genomes than previously thought, according to a recent Science report by Indiana University Bloomington and ...


Researchers Identify the Most Promiscuous Birds in the World

Researchers Identify the Most Promiscuous Birds in the World

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- UConn ornithologist Chris Elphick and his colleagues carried out DNA tests to discover the paternity of Saltmarsh Sparrow nestlings.


New therapy targets for amyloid disease

New therapy targets for amyloid disease

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A major discovery is challenging accepted thinking about amyloids - the fibrous protein deposits associated with diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's - and may open up a potential new area for therapeutics.


Researchers find long awaited key to creating drought resistant crops

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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. ...


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Latest epidemic? High cholesterol, obesity in fruit flies

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How do fruit flies get high cholesterol and become obese? The same way as people do - by eating a diet that's too rich in fats.


ERK's got rhythm: Protein that controls cell growth found to cycle in and out of cell nucleus (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Time-lapsed video of individual breast tissue cells reveals a never-before-seen event in the life of a cell: a protein that cycles between two major compartments in the cell. The results give researchers a more complete view ...



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