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Amaizing: Corn genome decoded
A team of scientists led by The Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis published the completed corn genome in the Nov. 20 journal Science, an accomplishment that will s...
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Read moreVitamin B niacin offers no extra benefit to statin therapy in seniors already diagnosed with CAD
The routine prescription of extended-release niacin, a B vitamin (1,500 milligrams daily), in combination with traditional cholesterol-lowering therapy offers no extra benefit in correcting arterial n...
Health and Medicine | Read moreLight and color: Healthcare Lighting presented by Siemens
Practical experience to date shows that many patients feel more comfortable and are more relaxed when the examination roomor the diagnostic device is flooded with colored light and relaxing music is ...
Health and Medicine | Read moreAirborne nitrogen shifts aquatic nutrient limitation in pristine lakes
Examining nitrogen deposition in alpine and subalpine lakes in Colorado, Sweden and Norway, James Elser, a limnologist in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, and his colleagues fo...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreMushrooms, water-repellants more similar than you might think
According to Duke University engineers, the answer is "jumping" water droplets. As it turns out, the same phenomenon that occurs when it's time for certain mushrooms to eject spores als...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreThe lotus's clever way of staying dry
Now, almost one thousand years since Zhou Dunyi wrote these lines in China, scientists finally understand how the plant keeps itself clean and dry. It took an ultra high speed camera, a powerful micro...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreStandards for a new genomic era
A team of geneticists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, together with a consortium of international researchers, has recently proposed a set of standards designed to elucidate the quality of publicly...
Life Sciences | Read moreNew Chromosomal Abnormality Identified in Leukemia Associated with Down Syndrome
The findings have already resulted in new diagnostic tests and potential tools for tracking a patient’s response to treatment. The research, led by scientists from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospita...
Life Sciences | Read moreEstablishing standard definitions for genome sequences
More than a decade later, researchers are finding that with the advent of the latest sequencing technologies the terms "draft" and "finished" are no longer sufficient to describe t...
Life Sciences | Read moreHerbivory discovered in a spider
There are approximately 40,000 species of spiders in the world, all of which have been thought to be strict predators that feed on insects or other animals. Now, scientists have found that a small Cen...
Life Sciences | Read moreClimate change triggered dwarfism in soil-dwelling creatures of the past
Ancient soil-inhabiting creatures decreased in body size by nearly half in response to a period of boosted carbon dioxide levels and higher temperatures, scientists have discovered.The researc...
Earth Sciences | Read morePanama butterfly migrations linked to El Niño, climate change
"Our long-term study shows that El Niño, a global climate pattern, drives Sulfur butterfly migrations," said Robert Srygley, former Smithsonian post doctoral fellow who is now a research eco...
Life Sciences | Read moreIn Search of Wildlife-friendly Biofuels: Could Native Prairie Plants Be the Answer
In a paper published in the latest issue of the journal BioScience, David Flaspohler, Joseph Fargione and colleagues analyze the impacts on wildlife of the burgeoning conversion of grasslands to corn ...
Life Sciences | Read moreCosmic Rays Hit Space Age High
"In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19% beyond anything we've seen in the past 50 years," says Richard Mewaldt of Caltech. "The increase is significant, and it could me...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreHealing badly damaged lungs: Distinct set of white blood cells found to set the pace of wound repair
The white blood cells are called regulatory T cells, or Tregs for short, and their best known function is to keep the body's immune system from attacking its own healthy tissues."Our...
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