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Researchers track how spores break out of dormant state
06-04-2007 · EurekAlert!Tapping into the unknown world of awakening dormant bacterial spores, researchers have revealed through atomic force microscopy (AFM) the alterations of spore coat and germ cell wall that accompany the transformation from a spore to a vegetative cell.
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04-30-2007 · EurekAlert!
An interactive "supermap" that portrays the mutations and spread of the avian flu around the globe over time should help researchers and policy makers better understand the virus and anticipate further outbreaks, according to a new study involving University of Colorado at Boulder and Ohio State University researchers.
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- Iowa State researchers work to track North American climate change
08-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
Iowa State University researchers are part of an international project that will run computerized climate models to see how climate change may affect North America or even individual states.
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- Iowa State researcher studies how enzymes break down cellulose
01-30-2008 · EurekAlert!
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- Study urges compensation-based approach to drug patent compulsory licensing
07-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
A Penn State researcher argues that ambiguous international rules outlining when and how governments may "break" pharmaceutical patents may end up significantly reducing incentives for innovation while at the same time failing to increase access to medicines.
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- Researchers track snakes to study populations, behavior
06-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
A researcher for Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues at the Saint Louis Zoo and Saint Louis University are tracking timber rattlesnakes in west St. Louis County and neighboring Jefferson County to see how close to civilization the snakes are getting as humans developing subdivisions invade the snakes' turf.
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- Tiny device enables wide range of study at liquid-liquid interface
12-18-2006 · EurekAlert!
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- Cell phone sensors detect radiation to thwart nuclear terrorism
01-22-2008 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at Purdue University are working with the state of Indiana to develop a system that would use a network of cell phones to detect and track radiation to help prevent terrorist attacks with radiological "dirty bombs" and nuclear weapons.
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- Immune system can drive cancers into dormant state
11-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
A multinational team of researchers has shown for the first time that the immune system can stop the growth of a cancerous tumor without actually killing it. Scientists have been working for years to use the immune system to eradicate cancers. The new findings prove an alternate to this approach exists: When the cancer can't be killed with immune attacks, it may be possible to find ways to use the immune system to contain it.
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- ASU researcher finds belief about neighbor's conservation is stealthily influential
02-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you? Probably not, but according to a study by Arizona State University researchers, peer influence plays a greater role in people's behavior than is generally acknowledged. The study, which is being presented by ASU Regents' Professor of Psychology Robert Cialdini on Feb. 18 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, suggests that peer influence is an under-recognized factor in energy conservation.
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- Researchers discover new gene responsible for brittle bone disease
10-19-2006 · EurekAlert!
A team of researchers has identified a new genetic mutation responsible for osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a condition that makes bones much more likely to break, according to a study published today in the journal Cell. Victims may experience just a few fractures in a lifetime or several hundred beginning before birth. The number of Americans affected is unknown, but estimates range from 20,000 to 50,000.
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