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A study led by a University of Pennsylvania biologist in the tick-infested woods of the Hudson Valley is challenging the widely held belief that mice are the main animal reservoir for Lyme disease in the U.S.The paper, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, demonstrates that chipmunks read more »
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Pursuing our own short term interests by cheating on the rest of the population is not the preserve of the human race. It seems bacteria can operate in just the same way. Writing in the journal Nature, scientists from The University of Nottingham and The University of Edinburgh say bacteria have read more »
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A National Institutes of Health draft assessment of the risks associated with a proposed biocontainment laboratory at Boston University is "not sound and credible," according to a National Research Council report requested by the state of Massachusetts. The laboratory would include a Biosafety Lev read more »
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Research institutions across Southern California have joined forces to advance stem cell research by establishing the Southern California Stem Cell Scientific Collaboration (SC3). Members of the collaboration include the University of Southern California, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, City of Hop read more »
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Scientists have uncovered embryonic cells' ability to measure and respond to the strength of the molecular signals that guide nerve development in the growing spinal cord. The discovery may help scientists learn how to direct stem cells to turn into any cell type including nerve cells. The team fro read more »
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McGill University researchers have uncovered the crucial role played by the enzyme focal adhesion kinase (FAK) in the onset of breast cancer. The research, led by Dr. William Muller - along with colleagues from McGill and the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Scotland - was published in the read more »
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Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have reversed the effects of aging on the skin of mice, at least for a short period, by blocking the action of a single critical protein.The work could one day be useful in helping older people heal from an injury as quickly as they did when read more »
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Researchers based at Tulane University report the discovery of biological markers of prostate cancer which are involved in the growth of tumor cells, shedding light on the genetic basis for the prostate cancer burden faced by African-American men. The research is being presented at the American Ass read more »
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Like us, our canine friends are able to form abstract concepts. Friederike Range and colleagues from the University of Vienna in Austria have shown for the first time that dogs can classify complex color photographs and place them into categories in the same way that humans do. And the dogs success read more »
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