News tagged with specimens
The evolution of orchids
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Charles Darwin and many other scientists have long been puzzled by the evolution of orchids, the largest and most diverse family of flowering plants on Earth. Now genetic sequencing is giving ...
Darwin's collections 'cocooned' at London museum
Sep 08, 2009 |
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London's Natural History Museum on Tuesday unveiled an eight-storey extension in the shape of a cocoon to house the collections of Charles Darwin.
Physician trust, early screening reduces disparities for prostate cancer
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Men who have a regular, ongoing relationship with a health care provider are more likely to receive prostate cancer screening and less likely to be diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer, regardless of their race, according ...
Museum specimens aid conservation effort in Madagascar
Apr 16, 2009 |
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There is a new tool for those developing conservation strategies for threatened species and landscapes: museum specimens. Richard Pearson and Christopher Raxworthy of the American Museum of Natural History ...
New bird discovered after its extinction
Mar 26, 2009 |
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After almost 120 years in the Natural History Museum collections, a new Colombian bird has been discovered, and proclaimed extinct.
Should breast tissue be screened for cancer after cosmetic surgery?
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Young women undergoing cosmetic breast reduction surgery are being screened for cancer without their informed consent, according to a paper published on bmj.com today.
New staging technique might save bladders in some bladder cancer patients
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Pathologists today reported encouraging results from a new technique to increase the accuracy of staging bladder cancer tumors that could reduce the need to remove bladders from some patients.
New fish discovered in the Bellingshausen Sea
Mar 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The new species of Antarctic fish, Gosztonyia antarctica, has been discovered at a depth of 650 metres in the Bellingshausen Sea in the Antarctic Ocean, an area which has not been studied ...
What's in a dinosaur name?
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Sep 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new species of dinosaur is named somewhere in the world every two weeks. But are they all new species, or do the newly-discovered bones really belong to a dinosaur already identified?
