Biology
Take millions of puzzle pieces containing partial words and put them back together into full words, sentences, paragraphs and...
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Eppendorf® and the world-renowned journal Science are now accepting applications for the 2011 Eppendorf & Science Prize for...
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Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have for the first time observed the activity of a single...
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Whether you’re talking about genes, or neurons, or the workings of a virus, at the most fundamental level, biology is a matter of...
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One way of discovering a gene’s function is to switch it off and observe how the loss of its activity affects an organism...
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Research represents a breakthrough for both human and animal health alike.
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According to new research from Johns Hopkins, the fusion of muscle cells is a power struggle that involves a smaller mobile antagonist that points at, pokes and finally pushes into its larger, stationary partner using a newly identified...
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Finding life on Mars could get easier with a creative adaption to a common analytical tool that can be installed directly on the robotic arm of a space rover. In a recent paper published online in the journal Planetary and Space Science, a team of...
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Construction of a biological research station in Wildsumaco Wildlife Sanctuary on the east slope of the Andes mountains will allow faculty and students from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and Francis Marion University to study one of..
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RTI International has hired pioneer in the field of microbial ecology Daniel (Niels) van der Lelie, Ph.D., to lead the new center for Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology, which seeks to unlock the mysteries of the..
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Unraveling the molecular basis of life is a long-standing quest of humanity. A breakthrough towards this goal was reported in a pair of studies published Feb. 3 in the scientific journal Nature, detailing a new method developed to determine..
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Advancements in understanding rotational motion in living cells may help researchers shed light on the causes of deadly diseases, such as Alzheimers, according to Ning Fang, an associate scientist at the U.S. Department of Energys Ames Laboratory and
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