Scientists find genetic origin of "werewolf syndrome"
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A new technology could boost the storage capacity of conventional optical discs 10,000-fold
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Researchers find way to make deadly disease more susceptible to chemotherapy
Controlling blood vessel growth with microRNA; a neutron star transitioning into a radio pulsar; detecting scientific plagiarism; and more.
Controlling blood vessel growth with microRNA; a neutron star transitioning into a radio pulsar; detecting scientific plagiarism; and more.
When the going gets rough, the tough apparently sing slower. As vegetation reclaimed formerly cleared land in California, Oregon and Washington over the last 35 years, male white-crowned sparrows have lowered their pitch and slowed down their singing so that their love songs would carry better through heavier foliage. This is the first time that [...]
In animal models, stem cells derived from bone marrow and adipose tissue enhance heart function after a cardiac attack.
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Driving Miranda, a protein in fruit flies crucial to switch a stem cell’s fate, is not as complex as biologists thought, according to biochemists. They’ve found that one enzyme stands alone and acts as a traffic cop that directs which roads daughter cells will take.
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Babies born to obese mothers may have an increased risk of asthma, according to data from a new study.
With the current outbreak of swine flu, and in the absence of a vaccine or treatment at present, the only way to contain the virus is to get people around the world to take precautionary measures. Researchers show that there are three key parameters that convince people to take precautions.
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