среда, 1 июня 2011 г.

Stanford Researcher Uses Living Cells To Create 'Biotic' Video Games

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Video game designers are always striving to make games more lifelike, but they'll have a hard time topping what Stanford researcher Ingm...

Gourds Afloat: A Dated Phylogeny Reveals An Asian Origin Of The Gourd Family (Cucurbitaceae) And Numerous Oversea Dispersal Events

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Knowing the geographic origin of certain plant groups is important for genetic improvement and conservation. We address the history of the e...

Recognition Given For Ground-Breaking Advancements In Digitalizing Health Data And Information

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AMIA, the association for informatics professionals, honors four leaders in biomedical and health informatics on Nov. 13, 2010, with the ann...

Cell 'Anchors' Required To Prevent Muscular Dystrophy

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A protein that was first identified for playing a key role in regulating normal heart rhythms also appears to be significant in helping musc...

New Discovery May Aid In Creation Of Therapies For Visual, Hearing Problems

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It's safe to say that cilia, the hairlike appendages jutting out from the smooth surfaces of most mammalian cells, have long been misund...

Rare 'Gene-For-Gene' Interaction That Helps Bacteria Kill Their Host, Discovered By Scientists

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Scientists have discovered that a cousin of the plague bacterium uses a single gene to out-fox insect immune defences and kill its host. In ...

Nerve Structures, Or Constructs, Created In Culture: Implications For Repairing Spinal Cord Injury

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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have created - in a rodent model - a completely new way to engineer nerve s...