News tagged with yellowish tinge
First discovery of 'animals-only' pigment bilirubin in plants
Mar 11, 2009 |
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In a first-of-its-kind discovery that overturns conventional wisdom, scientists in Florida are reporting that certain plants — including the exotic “White Bird of Paradise Tree” -- make bilirubin. Until now, scientists thought ...
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Are tumors causing stricture of bile duct always malignant?
Feb 22, 2008 |
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The benign biliary tract tumor is rarely found in clinical practice. One case of bile duct adenomyoma was recently reported in the January 28 issue of the World Journal of Gastroenterology. This paper cited studies on how ...
Living longer thanks to the 'longevity gene'
Feb 03, 2009 |
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A variation in the gene FOXO3A has a positive effect on the life expectancy of humans, and is found much more often in people living to 100 and beyond - moreover, this appears to be true worldwide. A research group in the ...
Ivy uses nanoparticles to climb walls, chemists discover
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 26, 2008 |
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Ivy plants secrete nanoparticles to help them grip walls, US-based chemists have reported.
Red dust in planet-forming disk may harbor precursors to life
Jan 03, 2008 |
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Astronomers at the Carnegie Institution have found the first indications of highly complex organic molecules in the disk of red dust surrounding a distant star. The eight-million-year-old star, known as HR ...
Seven new luminescent mushroom species discovered
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Seven new glow-in-the-dark mushroom species have been discovered, increasing the number of known luminescent fungi species from 64 to 71. Reported today in the journal Mycologia, the new finds include two ne ...
New dinosaur species found in Montana
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 24, 2007 |
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A dinosaur skeleton found 24 years ago in Montana has finally been identified as a new species that links North American dinosaurs with Asian dinosaurs. The dinosaur would have weighed 30 to 40 pounds, walked on two feet ...
Hold your nose and head for the hills: Titania is opening
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Aug 07, 2007 |
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Get a whiff of this: Titania, UC Botanical Garden's corpse flower, is being pollinated today. The plant's skirt of petals now measures 44" in diameter. Visitors to the garden's Tropical House will be treated ...
Catheter helps get oxygen to blood when lungs aren't working
Apr 07, 2009 |
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When Kelli Justice walked into her baby's room at Kentucky Children's Hospital, it was terrifying.
Gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132 -- a cosmic fossil?
Feb 05, 2008 |
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The elliptical galaxy NGC 1132, seen in this latest image from Hubble, belongs to a category of galaxies called giant ellipticals. NGC 1132, together with the small dwarf galaxies surrounding it, are dubbed ...
Expression of infrared fluorescence engineered in mammals
May 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, San Diego - led by 2008 Nobel-Prize winner Roger Tsien, PhD - have shown that bacterial proteins called phytochromes can be engineered into infrared-fluorescent ...
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