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49 min ago | MyFox St. Louis

Mo. Botanical Garden's Peter Raven honored by Chinese Academy of Sciences

Botanist and environmentalist Peter Raven has been recognized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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Related Topix: Plant Biology, Science

5 hrs ago | Science Daily

How respiratory tubes and capillaries form in flies

These tubes or capillaries, formed by a single cell, connect the main tubes of the respiratory system with organs and tissues, thereby providing oxygen.

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9 hrs ago | Physics Org

Researchers reveal 3-D structure of bullet-shaped virus with potential to fight cancer, HIV

Using cryo-electron microscopy and advanced image-processing methods, UCLA researchers have developed a model of how the potentially therapeutic vesicular stomatitis virus assembles.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Nanotechnology, Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology, Science, Baylor College of Medicine

13 hrs ago | Biology News Net

Method of the future uses single-cell imaging to identify gene interactions

Cellular imaging offers a wealth of data about how cells respond to stimuli, but harnessing this technique to study biological systems is a daunting challenge.

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Related Topix: Science

18 hrs ago | Star Phoenix

Errant gene may make some people age faster: Study

Certain people carry a genetic variant that could shave three or four years off their life, according to a new study.

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Related Topix: Genetics

Mon Feb 08, 2010

EurekAlert!

Brown biologist solves mystery of tropical grasses' origin

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] - Around 30 to 40 million years ago, grasses on Earth underwent an epic evolutionary upheaval.

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Related Topix: Science, Providence, RI, Brown University, Weather

PhysOrg Weblog

Infection-fighting antibodies made in plants as effective as costlier conventional version

The first head-to-head comparison of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies produced from plants versus the same antibodies produced from mammalian cells has shown that plant-produced antibodies can fight infection equally well.

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Related Topix: Arizona State University, West Nile Virus, Health, Science, Immunology

The Miami Herald

Botanist, 89, gets 4 years in Jamaica murder plot

A Jamaican jury has convicted a U.S.-born botanist of conspiring to kill his wife on the Caribbean island.

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Related Topix: Prison, Plant Biology, Science, Terrorism, US News, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Italy, World News,

www.sciencecodex.com | Cash

TERC: first genetic variant linked to biological aging in humans

Scientists announced they have identified for the first time definitive variants associated with biological ageing in humans. The team analyzed more than 500,000 genetic variations across the entire human genome to identify the variants which are located near a gene called TERC.

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EurekAlert!

Virus-free technique enables Stanford scientists to easily make stem cells pluripotent

Tiny circles of DNA are the key to a new and easier way to transform stem cells from human fat into induced pluripotent stem cells for use in regenerative medicine, say scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

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Related Topix: Startups, Stanford University, Molecular Biology, Science, Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology

Sun Feb 07, 2010

Science Daily

Scientists identify first genetic variant linked to biological aging in humans

The team analyzed more than 500,000 genetic variations across the entire human genome to identify the variants which are located near a gene called TERC.

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Related Topix: Genetics, Science, Netherlands, World News, Biotech, Charitable Organizations

Science Daily

Cord blood-derived CD133+ cells improve cardiac function after myocardial infarction

Patients who have high cardiovascular risks have fewer endothelial progenitor cells and their EPCs exhibit greater in vitro senescence.

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Related Topix: Science

Topeka Capital-Journal

Researchers target whales in herring loss study

Something is holding down the herring population of Alaska's Prince William Sound, and marine scientists are tailing some rather large suspects: humpback whales.

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Related Topix: Marine Biology, Science, University of Alaska Southeast

Medical News

Researchers identify a key piece in the ageing process

Understanding how aged and damaged mother cells manage to form new and undamaged daughter cells is one of the toughest riddles of ageing, but scientists now know how yeast cells do it.

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Related Topix: Sweden, World News, Science, Microbiology, Health

Science Daily

How the Butterflies Got Their Spots

Now, scientists at Cambridge have found "hotspots" in the butterflies' genes that they believe will explain one of the most extraordinary examples of mimicry in the natural world.

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Related Topix: Science

Sat Feb 06, 2010

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Welch Foundation honors Orth as 'rising star' in chemistry

Feb. 3, 2010 - Dr. Kim Orth , associate professor of molecular biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, was honored today with the 2010 Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research for pioneering work focusing on the mechanisms bacteria use to cause disease.

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Related Topix: Chemistry, Science, Texas, Biochemistry

Embedded.com

Esc SV News - Speaker to describe emerging bio-ASICs

The future of medical electronics could turn on the arrival of a new class of nanoscale chips that can monitor and deliver personalized therapies to human cells.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Science, CPU

RedOrbit

Scientists Id a Protein That Splices And Dices Genes

A novel finding, described today on the Science Express Web site by teams from the National Cancer Institute, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the University of Toronto, offers a clue as to how genes can have what you might call multiple personalities.

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Related Topix: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, Science, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Physics Org

Scientists measure energy released from a virus during infection

Within a virus's tiny exterior is a store of energy waiting to be unleashed. When the virus encounters a host cell, this pent-up energy is released, propelling the viral DNA into the cell and turning it into a virus factory.

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Related Topix: Carnegie Mellon University, Physics, Medicine, Influenza, Health

Physics Org

Study finds screening for spinal muscular atrophy not cost effective

In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Chicago, researchers will unveil findings that show that it is not cost effective to screen for spinal muscular atrophy.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Genetics, Medical Genetics, Science

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