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The Nanotech Antidote to Food PoisoningThe day after an awesome tailgate party, you feel deathly ill. Bacterial toxins are coursing through your veins, slipping into red blood cells, and tearing them to shreds from the inside. As the dead erythrocytes pile up, your kidneys start to fail. Maybe the burgers were a bit too rare. Per... |
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How Drosophila circadian pacemaker drives organismal rhythms? [A Blog Around The Clock]Totally cool: Phase Coupling of a Circadian Neuropeptide With Rest/Activity Rhythms Detected Using a Membrane-Tethered Spider Toxin: The regulation of the daily fluctuations that characterize an organism's physiology and behavior requires coordination of the cellular oscillations of individ... |
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Christopher Brauchli: Fertilized Eggs and Decapitated FlowersWhat's tough? Life's tough. What's life? A magazine. Where do you get it? Newstand? What's it cost? Ten cents. Only got a nickel. That's tough, etc. A child's saying circa 1945. Switzerland and Colorado have at least two things in common. Both have lots of mountains and some of the ci... |
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Mr. Green Genes glows on video [Discovering Biology in a Digital World]This video from WDSU shows Mr. Green Genes, the transgenic kitty, in the dark and in the light. There's also an interview with Dr. Betsy Dresser, who very briefly talks about the work at the Audubon Center for Research on Endangered Species. Other than clips of the cat, and Dr. Dresser,... |
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Another cat that glows in the dark [Discovering Biology in a Digital World]I've heard that all cats are grey in the dark, but I guess that's no longer true in New Orleans. Scientists at the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species have made a cloned kitty that glows lime green. Some of you already know my fascination with glowing fish, fluorescent cats, a... |
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Diatoms: The Ultimate in Hybrid VigorMicroscopic algae that gobble carbon dioxide and produce 20 percent of the oxygen we breathe are a genetic hodgepodge, a symphony of evolution as composed by Danger Mouse. "These organisms represent a veritable melting pot of traits—a hybrid of genetic mechanisms contributed by an... |
