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Microfluidic chip helps solve cellular mating puzzle
02-21-2007 · EurekAlert!Using a biochemical version of a computer chip they invented, a team of researchers has solved a long-standing mystery related to the mating habits of yeast cells.
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- American Chemical Society's Weekly Presspac -- Sept. 5, 2007
09-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
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02-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
A completely new approach to the study of Alzheimer’s disease, initiated by a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, may solve a critical piece in the puzzle of the disease. This tragic neurological illness progressively erases memory in its millions of victims. The key to the new approach is understanding the way certain proteins in the brain fold, or rather “misfold.”
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- Scripps/UC San Diego scientists solve genome of promising marine organism
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- Scientists solve cosmological puzzle
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