A team lead by Dr. Richard Berry at the University of Oxford intends to listen to flagella- the tiny motor that many bacteria such as E. Coli use to move themselves around. The African trypanosome, Trypansoma...
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Another breakthrough in lithography is happening as physical limits are being reached in conventional processes for creating computer processors. Molecular computing will be here soon.Also see this recent article:Self-assembling polymer arrays improve data storage...
Canadians often pride themselves on being polite and humble, and we often don’t make a big enough deal about the world class research and science that is done in this country. We do a bad job of telling...
created by chowdawg | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 248 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
20 Years is long enough to disappear, collect a little dust and then make a miraculous comeback to hordes of young fans that likely never experienced the initial mania. Scooby Doo, Punk music and Apple computers...
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Cutting edge thinking on harnessing the enzyme activity of bacteria to power appliances such as laptops. Some might begin to worry about the 'design' element when applied to bacteria or other living matter and the...
created by Paul Conneally | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 551 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
"Chinese doctors have reported that human-to-human transmission likely occurred in a small family cluster of H5N1 avian flu cases in China late last year.A 52-year-old man from Jiangsu province fell ill with the virus after helping care for his son, 24. The younger man died...
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"New discovery could help treat epilepsy
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 10/03/2008
Drugs that could treat pre menstrual tension and epilepsy are two of the long term possibilities...
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""The TRUGENE iMac OSX-based system enables laboratories to increase throughput and flexibility during the interrogation and monitoring of HIV-1," said David Okrongly, senior vice president and head of Molecular Diagnostics, Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics.
"Siemens is...
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Music from protein? On a scale of Doh Re Mi this is pretty cool.""We converted the sequence of proteins into music and can get an auditory signal for every protein," said Jeffrey H. Miller, distinguished professor...
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Ever wonder how plants make a living in this world? Sure, they use sunlight (not including, of course, Dionaea muscipula), but how?I distinctly remember sitting in a botany lecture a few years ago. The...
created by ScienceDave | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 888 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
"From now on if someone says that 'you think like a worm', it would not be that offensive. As a matter of fact, it is now a scientific fact, as results of a research of the European laboratory for molecular biology in Heidelberg show that the human brain and the entire human...
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"Researchers have decoded proteins from a 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, the oldest such material ever found. The unprecedented step, once thought impossible, adds new weight to the idea that today's birds...
Scientists believe a species of bat has an inbuilt magnetic compass to find its way home over long distances, in addition to its famous echolocation*, which guides it around its neighbourhood.Princeton University batologists used radio telemetry aboard a small aircraft to...
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High in the Sierra Nevada mountains, a new species of butterfly has emerged as a hybrid of two existing species. It is the first time that this type of species formation has been shown in animals, according to the...
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Online open access/free first edition of Phillip E. Johnson's book 'Darwin on Trial' (2nd Edition: Amazon UK | US)Video: Watch (RealPlayer) Phillip Johnson's Address given at the University of California, Irvine, 1992 (running time 90 minutes approx) in which he discusses...
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