Biological Sciences
A current focus in global health research is to make medical tests that are not just cheap, but virtually free. One such strategy starts with paper.
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A University of Adelaide researcher has published results that suggest a possible new mechanism to control multiple sclerosis (MS).
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Novel, biocompatible nanoparticles glow through more than 3 centimeters of biological tissue, demonstrating the promise of nanotechnology in biomedical imaging.
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New research from UNC has established the first link between the two most fundamental epigenetic tags -- histone modification and DNA methylation -- in humans.
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The Kelp Forest Array, located just offshore of Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station, will provide the power and real-time data access scientists need to monitor the effects of climate change on the California coast.
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A new study from MIT neuroscientists sheds light on a neural circuit that makes us likelier to remember what we’re seeing when our brains are in a more attentive state.
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The science of how and why plant roots get their shape, it turns out, is a twisted tale.
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There is evidence that some microbial life had migrated from the Earth’s oceans to land by 2.75 billion years ago, though many scientists believe such land-based life was limited...
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new computational method for identifying candidate refrigerant fluids with low "global warming potential."
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Single-celled algae and nitrogen-fixing bacteria help fertilize the oceans.
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An electronic tag designed at the University of Washington can for the first time see when birds meet in the wild.
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Camptothecin analog FL118 shown to inhibit production of key cancer survival genes.
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