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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Prion Protein in Cell Culture

The fatal brain disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob in humans, BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) in cattle and scrapie in sheep are so-called prion diseases, whereby one of the body's ...  > full story

Moss Helps Chart the Conquest of Land by Plants

Clues to how the first land plants managed to avoid drying out might be provided by bryophytes, a group that includes the mosses, many of which retain remarkable ...  > full story

How Respiratory Tubes and Capillaries Form in Flies

Scientists in Spain report on the formation of the small-diameter respiratory tubes of the fly Drosophila -- a process that resembles the development of the ...  > full story

Evolution Impacts Environment: Fundamental Shift in How Biologists Perceive Relationship Between Evolution and Ecology

The traditional view is that ecology shapes evolution. Some research has suggested, however, that evolutionary processes reciprocate by ...  > full story
 

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