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Fruit-fly study adds weight to theories about another type of adult stem cell
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Jul 31, 2008 |
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It turns out that an old dog - or at least an old fruit-fly cell - can learn new tricks. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that mature, specialized cells naturally regress to serve as a ...
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Some cheaters can keep it in their genes
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Mar 13, 2008 |
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A new study examining social behaviour suggests certain individuals are genetically programmed to cheat and often will do... providing they can get away with it.
Ameobas: Keeping it in the family
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Nov 25, 2008 |
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Starving "social amoebae" called Dictyostelium discoideum seek the support of "kin" when they form multi-cellular organisms made up of dead stalks and living spores, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Ri ...
Cheating is easy -- for the social amoeba
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Feb 13, 2008 |
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Cheating is easy and seemingly without cost for the social amoeba known as Dictyostelium discoideum, said a team of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston who conducted the first genome-scale ...
Research could lead to more comprehensive flu vaccines
Mar 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New findings from research performed on the influenza virus using X-rays generated by the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory may help ...
Biologists use computers to study bacterial cell division
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Jan 25, 2008 |
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A group of computational biologists at Virginia Tech have created a mathematical model of the process that regulates cell division in a common bacterium, confirming hypotheses, providing new insights, identifying gaps in ...
Amoebae control cheating by keeping it in the family
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Jul 05, 2007 |
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No one likes a cheater, even a single-celled one. New research from Rice University shows how cooperative single-celled amoebae rely on family ties to keep cheaters from undermining the health of their colonies. The research ...
Study to find out why you're a slime ball
Jun 28, 2005 |
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A University of Manchester scientist has been awarded £150,000 to study slime! But this is no ordinary slime, says biologist Chris Thompson, who believes it could unravel mysteries of evolution that even Darwin couldn't sol ...
Getting to the roots of breast cancer
Apr 29, 2008 |
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The lesson learned in eradicating dandelions from your yard could apply in treating breast cancer as well, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in a report that appears online today in the Journal of ...
Figuring out function from bacteria's bewildering forms
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Jul 18, 2006 |
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The constellation of shapes and sizes among bacteria is as remarkable as it is mysterious. Why should Spirochaeta halophila resemble a bedspring coil, Stella a star and Clostridium cocleatum a partly eaten ...
Researchers produce images of AIDS virus that may shape vaccine
May 29, 2006 |
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As the world marks the 25th year since the first diagnosed case of AIDS, groundbreaking research by scientists at Florida State University has produced remarkable three-dimensional images of the virus and the ...
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