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No Excess Baggage: Antarctic Insect’s Genome, Newly Sequenced, is Smallest to Date
Scientists who sequenced the genome of the Antarctic midge suspect the genome’s small size – the smallest in insects described…
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U.Va. Research Overturns Basic Beliefs About Atherosclerosis
Doctors’ efforts to battle the dangerous atherosclerotic plaques that build up in our arteries and cause heart attacks and strokes…
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A new book by Barbara Rolls, professor of nutritional sciences and Helen A. Guthrie…
Venice hasn’t stopped sinking after all
The water flowing through Venice’s famous canals laps at buildings a little higher every…
Discovery Provides Blueprint for New Drugs That Can Inhibit Hepatitis C Virus
Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have produced the first high resolution…
Cardiologists identify mechanism that makes heart disease worse in diabetics
UT Southwestern Medical Center cardiologists have uncovered how a specific protein’s previously unsuspected role…
Genetic manipulation boosts growth of brain cells linked to learning, enhances effects of antidepressants
UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators have identified a genetic manipulation that increases the development of…