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Geographic isolation drives the evolution of a hot springs microbe

Sulfolobus islandicus, a microbe that can live in boiling acid, is offering up its secrets to researchers hardy enough to capture it from the volcanic hot springs where it thrives. In a new study, researchers report that p ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Study finds link between Parkinson's disease genes and manganese poisoning

A connection between genetic and environmental causes of Parkinson's disease has been discovered by a research team led by Aaron D. Gitler, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0




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Research into possible Woodchester wild cat finds no cat DNA on deer

Extensive DNA tests by experts at the University of Warwick on two deer carcasses found in Gloucestershire have not found any indication of a big cat presence.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Genetic breakthrough for brain cancer in children

An international research team led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI MUHC) has made a major genetic breakthrough that could change the way pediatric cancers are treated in the future. The ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Science to help rice growers affected by Japan's tsunami

Under a year since a huge tsunami inundated paddy fields in Japan with salty sludge, scientists are near to developing locally-adapted, salt-tolerant rice. Following a Japan-UK research collaboration, a new ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Controversial research on bird flu

In a top-security lab in the Netherlands, scientists guard specimens of a super-killer influenza that slays half of those it infects and spreads easily from victim to victim.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 13

Research finds molecular 'maturation clock' that modulates branching architecture in tomato plants

The secret to pushing tomato plants to produce more fruit might not lie in an extra dose of Miracle-Gro. Instead, new research from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) suggests that an increase in fruit yield ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New bug eats sulfates, makes two kinds of magnet

(PhysOrg.com) -- A bacterium recently discovered near Death Valley has some very unusual properties according to a report published in the December 23 issue of Science magazine. While some ‘bugs’ are li ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New components of antiviral pathway discovered

Scientists studying how mammals detect microbes have discovered new components in a crucial pathway that allows immune cells to detect viral invaders. Their research not only deepens the understanding of antiviral responses, ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A single cell endoscope: Researchers use nanophotonics for optical look inside living cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- An endoscope that can provide high-resolution optical images of the interior of a single living cell, or precisely deliver genes, proteins, therapeutic drugs or other cargo without injuring ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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

Scientists show how BRCA1 cancer gene mutations harm breast cells

(Medical Xpress) -- Working with human breast cells, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have shown how the inactivation of a single copy of the breast cancer gene BRCA1 leaves breast cells vulnerable to ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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