Douglas-fir, geoducks make strange bedfellows in studying climate change
Scientists are comparing annual growth rings of the Pacific Northwest's largest bivalve and its most iconic tree for clues to how living organisms may have responded to changes in climate.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 30, 2009 |
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New computer simulation helps explain folding in important cellular protein
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most parts of living organisms come packaged with ribbons. The ribbons are proteins—chains of amino acids that must fold into three-dimensional structures to work properly. But when for any reason the ribbons ...
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Hydrocarbons in the deep Earth?
The oil and gas that fuels our homes and cars started out as living organisms that died, were compressed, and heated under heavy layers of sediments in the Earth's crust. Scientists have debated for years ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 26, 2009 |
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Researchers Find Key 'Conductor' of Nature's Synchronicity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Synchronicity in nature is seen in beating hearts, the flashing of fireflies' lights, the ebb and flow of infectious disease—and the simultaneous rise and fall of populations across vast reaches ...
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Rampant helper syndrome: Methane-producing molecule can also repair DNA
The Archaea are single-celled organisms and a domain unto themselves, quite apart from the so called eukaryotes, being bacteria and higher organisms. Many species live under extreme conditions, and carry out unique biochemical ...
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Chemists see first building blocks to life on Earth
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed an experiment that sheds new and fascinating light on how life on Earth might have begun.
May 13, 2009 |
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Cooperative forces boost collective mobility of cells
An article by Dr. Xavier Trepat, senior researcher of the Cellular and respiratory biomechanics group at the University of Barcelona, Spain, contributes for the first time an experimental answer to the question ...
May 06, 2009 |
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Chemists synthesize herbal alkaloid
The club moss Lycopodium serratum is a creeping, flowerless plant used in homeopathic medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments. It contains a potent brew of alkaloids that have attracted considerable scient ...
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Alzheimer cell death in Zebrafish: Demise of neurons observed live for the first time
Extensive death of nerve cells leads to severe dementia in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Until now, it has only been possible to investigate the neuronal devastation in post mortem animal models, and by using complicated ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Jurassic Park from a Swiss lake?
Ecological changes caused by humans affect natural biodiversity. For example, the eutrophication of Greifensee and Lake Constance in the 1970s and 1980s led to genetic changes in a species of water flea which ...
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Study of protein structures reveals key events in evolutionary history
A new study of proteins, the molecular machines that drive all life, also sheds light on the history of living organisms.
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Micro-RNAs Are Life’s Genetic Sculptors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale scientists have found a way to study within a living organism the wonders of micro-RNAs - tiny bits of RNA that act like a sculptor and shape the activity of hundreds of genes. The work ...
Feb 26, 2009 |
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