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A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria |
 ...of defeating a certain bacteria in laboratory, but they tried to find a way to 'help' the body's own defense systems defeating these bacteria.
Pradeep Singh, associate professor of medicine and microbiology at the University of Washington and the senior author of current study, explained that there is a critical fight for iron between the alien bacteria and the human body. Thus the function of the cells defending the hum... |
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Worms and Humans Are One Family |
 ...ow on if someone says that 'you think like a worm', it would not be that offensive. As a matter of fact, it is now a scientific fact, as results of a research of the European laboratory for molecular biology in Heidelberg show that the human brain and the entire human nervous system finds its roots in the most primitive creatures - such as worms and insects.
The human brain has always been a very attractive object for ... |
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Bird Flu - Back to Europe |
| ...he German Ministry of Consumer Right Protection, Food Supplies and Agriculture. The H5N1 type of bird flu is the most dangerous type of this virus to people.
Tests in German laboratories for microbiology have proven that three swans were infected by the dangerous H5N1 strain in a lake near Nürnberg, in the Southern land of Bavaria. Scientists also examine two other specimen taken from a wild duck and a wild goose that... |
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Scientists Found a Way to Store and Erase Memories Long After Their Formation |
 ...The Head of the Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology Department, Prof. Yadin Dudai, together with his co-workers tried to answer questions related to human's brain, and namely what really happens inside our brain when we try to remember something and are our memories recorded in a stable physical change, like writing a permanent inscription on a clay tablet.
Scientists found that the process, during which a person stores... |
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Animal Crew Returns from Space |
 ...snails and cockroaches on board, will land in the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after 12 days of experiments.
During a 12 days' flight there were 26 unique experiments conducted in chemistry, biology, physics and bio-technology, funded by Russia and the European Space Agency.
Mice were placed in air-tight module cells equipped with life-support system, were they were videotaped. Scientists tried to study the i... |
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Antarctic Microbes to Tell about Past and Future of Climate Change |
| ...robes inhabit only a small portion of a huge continent, most scientists did not take them into consideration seriously.
However recent discoveries and technical advances in the field of molecular biology and biogeography help scientists find that these plants and microbes are indeed very important for understanding the glacial history of our planet.
Pete Convey mentioned that the new study may contribute to answer... |
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The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think |
 ...ughs in science.
Medicine
Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, USA, was awarded for the in-depth report that analyzed "Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects".
Biology
Dutch researchers Prof. Dr. Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk of Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands was applauded for the study of all the insects, bacteria, fungi, shellfish, mites, ferns and other li... |
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Evolution of Animal Vision - New Facts Discovered |
 ...sensitivity evolution in the animal. They are aware its predecessors existed approximately 600 million years ago.
According to senior author Todd H. Oakley, the university's assistant professor of biology, there are only a few cases where scientists have discovered and documented the very specific mutational events that have led to new features during evolution.
As Mr. Oakley mentioned, anti-evolutionists often argu... |
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Late Risers Protest to Change Work Schedule |
 ...searchers proved that one in four people are night owls while only one in ten are early risers, the rest fall somewhere in the middle.
Harvey Moldofsky, director of the Centre for Sleep and Chronobiology at the University of Toronto says that it is important to recognize that late rising is genetic and their natural wake-up is delayed.
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Scientific Breakthrough: Extinct Animal DNA Revived in a Live Animal |
 ...anian tiger and inserted it into a mouse and it functioned.
Though reviving the genes doesn't mean that the extinct animal will be reborn, it holds a potential for further research, revealing the biology of extinct animals and developing new biomedicines.
This breakthrough means that scientists can one day get the knowledge of much older specimens.
The Tasmanian tiger or thylacine was the world’s largest marsup... |
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Research Secretly Identified Users of Mobile Phones Outside US |
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Mr. Barabasi said that he didn't consult with any ethics panel. According to Hidalgo, researchers did not require to check with any ethics panel due to the fact that their experiment did not involve biology, but physics.
"There is plenty going on here that sets off ethical alarm bells about privacy and trustworthiness," said Arthur Caplan, bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania. In an email he wrote that studi... |
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Elephants Face Extinction By 2020 |
 ...less than 470,000, the situation becomes marginal.
“If the trend continues, there won’t be any elephants except in fenced areas with a lot of enforcement to protect them,” said Samuel Wasser, a UW biology professor, lead author of the research paper.
Scientists warn that today's tendency means that most of the large groups of elephants face extinction by 2020, unless serious measures will be taken.
Wasser developed... |
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Scientists to Use New Method of Tracing the Origin of Life on Earth |
| ...is method. We believe, if it is possible at all, that it is within our grasp to determine whether viruses evolved from cells or vice-versa", said Randen Patterson, a Penn State assistant professor of biology who is also one of the project's leaders.
Scientists will analyze an ancient group of proteins, called retroelements. It is worth mentioning that retroelements are an important component of a number of diseases, inc... |
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Half of American Adults Haven't Heard Anything of Nanotechnology |
 ...0 percent of American adults have heard nothing about nanotechnology. Two thirds of correspondents said that they have heard just a little or nothing on the continuously developing field of synthetic biology. Only 2 percent said that they have heard a lot about the emerging technology.
Experts in public policy raise concerns about the federal government not being able to inform people about the possible advantages and r... |
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Scientists to Identify Oral Cancer Through Saliva Test |
 ...est is currently not available, but we are developing point-of-care microfluidic devices to detect these markers that we can use in clinical trials," noted Shen Hu, Ph.D., assistant professor of Oral Biology and Proteomics at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Dentistry.
The work of Wong and Hu was supported by National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). Scientists gathered saliva sa... |
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