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Contact: Sonia Furtado sonia.furtado@embl.de European Molecular Biology Laboratory What counts is how genes are regulated, say scientists at EMBL and Yale Once the human genome was sequenced in 2001, the hunt was on for the genes that make each of us unique. But scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) …
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Contact: Bobbie Mixon bmixon@nsf.gov 703-292-8485 National Science Foundation Research finds weakest chemical bonds produce materials stronger than steel Since its development in China thousands of years ago, silk from silkworms, spiders and other insects has been used for high-end, luxury fabrics as well as for parachutes and…
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Contact: Nicole Casal Moore ncmoore@umich.edu 734-647-1838 University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich.—-In findings that took the experimenters three years to believe, University of Michigan engineers and their collaborators have demonstrated that light itself can twist ribbons of nanoparticles. The results are published in the current editi…
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Contact: Victoria Picknell victoria.picknell@zsl.org 44-207-449-6361 Zoological Society of London A new assessment of the Arctic's biodiversity reports a 26 per cent decline in species populations in the high Arctic. Populations of lemmings, caribou and red knot are some of the species that have experienced declines over the past…
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X-ray-visible Bone Marrow Stem Cells Dramatically Improve Ability to Build New Blood Vessels — Offering Future Possibility of Reducing or Avoiding Risk of Limb Amputation TAMPA, Fla., March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Bone marrow stem cells suspended in X-ray-visible microbubbles dramatically improve the body's ability to build new blood vessels in the upper leg — providing a potential future treatment for th…
