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200,000 rice mutants available worldwide for scientific investigation

Scientists across the world are building an extensive repository of genetically modified rice plants in the hope of understanding the function of the approximately 57,000 genes that make up the genome of Oryza sativa. The ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Ultraviolet protection molecule in plants yields its secrets

Lying around in the sun all day is hazardous not just for humans but also for plants, which have no means of escape. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun can damage proteins and DNA inside cells, leading ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ganetespib showed activity in KRAS-mutant NSCLC as monotherapy and in combinations

The investigational drug ganetespib, a synthetic second-generation Hsp90 inhibitor, slowed the growth of cancer cells taken from non-small cell lung cancer tumors with a mutation in the KRAS gene. The drug was even more active ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A quarter of a century of sweet corn observations

For more than a quarter of a century, Jerald "Snook" Pataky's research in the University of Illinois Sweet Corn Hybrid Disease Nursery has been helping growers make important decisions to increase their profitability.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Bone marrow-derived cells differentiate in the brain through mechanisms of plasticity

Bone marrow-derived stem cells (BMDCs) have been recognized as a source for transplantation because they can contribute to different cell populations in a variety of organs under both normal and pathological conditions. Many ...

Medicine & Health / Research

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

Experiments explain why almost all multicellular organisms begin life as a single cell

Any multicellular animal, from a blue whale to a human being, poses a special difficulty for the theory of evolution. Most of the cells in its body will die without reproducing, and only a privileged few will ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Characterizing a toxic offender

The brains of individuals with Alzheimer's disease contain protein aggregates called plaques and tangles, which interfere with normal communication between nerve cells and cause progressive learning and memory ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Coral reefs in warming seas

Disease outbreaks are often associated with hot weather. Because many bacteria typically multiply more rapidly in warmer conditions, it's a commonly held notion that warm-weather outbreaks are a straightforward consequence ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

How Salmonella forms evil twins to evade the body's defenses

An unusual regulatory mechanism that controls the swimmer/non-swimmer option in genetically identical Salmonella also impacts the bacteria's ability to cause infection.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ulcer-causing bacteria tamed by defect in cell-targeting ability

Without the ability to swim to their targets in the stomach, ulcer-causing bacteria do not cause the inflammation of the stomach lining that leads to ulcers and stomach cancer, according to a new study by researchers at the ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover possible key to degenerative nerve diseases

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and collaborators have discovered a powerful new protein in the eye of the fruit fly that may shed light on blinding diseases and other ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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