(PhysOrg.com) -- A parasite and a virus may be teaming up in a way that increases the parasite’s ability to harm humans, scientists at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and Washington University School of Medicine ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 10, 2011
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Inside a small cabinet the size of a dorm refrigerator in one of Himadri B. Pakrasi's labs, a blue-green soup percolates in thick glass bottles under the cool light of red, blue and green LEDS.
Biochemistry
Dec 14, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers based at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, including a physical anthropology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, ...
Archaeology
Oct 25, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Control over material properties would reduce the amount of platinum needed.
Nanomaterials
Sep 27, 2010
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Shock-synthesized diamonds said to prove a catastrophic impact killed off North American megafauna can't be found.
Earth Sciences
Aug 30, 2010
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In August of 2008 Jacob Schaefer, PhD, on vacation in San Diego, picked up a copy of the Los Angeles Times. As it happened, the newspaper was running a series on the wildfires in the western United States.
Biochemistry
Jun 22, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A seven-year experiment shows that pond communities bear the imprint of random events in their past, such as the order in which species were introduced into the ponds. This finding locates one of the wellsprings ...
Plants & Animals
May 27, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the sometimes opaque world of statistics, Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has found that it's good to know your ABCs.
Evolution
May 12, 2010
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In a lecture he delivered in 1906, the German physician Paul Ehrlich coined the term Zuberkugel, or "magic bullet," as shorthand for a highly targeted medical treatment.
Bio & Medicine
Mar 12, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been the common perception that once modern humans appeared more than 50,000 years ago, little has changed in human biology.
Evolution
Jan 5, 2010
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