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Understanding how bacteria come back from the dead

Salmonella remains a serious cause of food poisoning in the UK and throughout the EU, in part due to its ability to thrive and quickly adapt to the different environments in which it can grow. New research involving a team ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The secret life of proteins: Researchers discover dual role of key player in immune system

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine researchers have identified a new and unusual role for a key player in the human immune system. A protein initially believed to regulate one routine function within the ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bits of life, drop by drop

(PhysOrg.com) -- Swiss scientists are working on creating artificial living tissues using a very special kind of inkjet printer. Still in its initial stages, this technology could nonetheless soon provide ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Gene discovery explains how fruit flies retreat from heat

A discovery in fruit flies may be able to tell us more about how animals, including humans, sense potentially dangerous discomforts.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researcher finds key to ancient weather patterns in Florida's caves

(PhysOrg.com) -- Darrel Tremaine has been known to go to extremes for his research, such as crawling on his hands and knees through a dark, muddy limestone cave in Northwest Florida to learn more about the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'Nature's armor' could help engineers design stronger materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- In nature, the strength of mother-of-pearl is a key to survival for some shellfish. Now a team led by Xiaodong Li, an engineering professor at the University of South Carolina, has posited an explanation ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Glow-in-the-dark millipede says 'stay away'

As night falls in certain mountain regions in California, a strange breed of creepy crawlies emerges from the soil: Millipedes that glow in the dark. The reason behind the glowing secret has stumped biologists ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

In the early life of an embryo, a monster lurks

Research based at Princeton University has revealed that newly fertilized cells only narrowly avoid degenerating into fatal chaos. At the same time, scientists have discovered that embryos have acquired a mechanism to contain ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Fish bones used to decontaminate soil in a lead-poisoned neighborhood

There's something fishy going on in West Oakland.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists identify how major biological sensor in the body works

A biological sensor is a critical part of a human cell's control system that is able to trigger a number of cell activities. A type of sensor known as the "gating ring" can open a channel that allows a flow ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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