Honey bees are now fighting back aggressively against Varroa mites, thanks to new efforts to develop bees with a genetic trait that allows them to more easily find the mites and toss them out of the broodnest.
Imagine a surgical patient on a blood-thinning drug who starts bleeding more than expected, and an antidote that works immediately — because the blood thinner and antidote were designed to work together. Researchers have engineered a way to do this for an entire, versatile class of drugs called aptamers.
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If you want to know how a cell responds to a particular chemical, the experiment is simple: Inject it with that chemical. Micropipettes — tiny needles that can puncture a cell and deliver a compound directly into it — are used precisely for this purpose. But biologists who study yeast have not had this tool [...]
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Radiofrequency ablation, a procedure that uses heat to shrink the tissue of the soft palate, is an effective and minimally invasive procedure that can be used to treat patients who snore, researchers have found.
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Those small and sometimes inconvenient sticky labels on produce may eventually be replaced by laser “tattoo” technology.
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Researchers have found that they can make people move in slow motion by boosting one type of brain wave. The findings offer some of the first proof that brain waves can have a direct influence on behavior.
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As scientists work toward making genetically altered bacteria create living “circuits” to produce a myriad of useful proteins and chemicals, they have logically assumed that the single-celled organisms would always respond to an external command in the same way.
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Scientists have discovered that a novel genetic alteration — a second copy of an entire gene — is a cause of familial chordoma, an uncommon form of cancer arising in bones and frequently affecting the nervous system.
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Phthalates — the softening agents in synthetic materials — were a hot topic during the last decade and have been linked to deformities in the male genitals, diabetes, premature births and excess weight. Now, a new study has revealed that they are extremely difficult to avoid, even if you eat healthily.
A new study finds that a non-invasive imaging technique can aid in the diagnosis of tinnitus and may detect a reduction in symptoms after different treatments, offering hope to the more than 50 million patients with tinnitus.
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