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Discover new role of protein
A family of proteins known to be surprisingly resistant to bacteria, while also helping to identify a dog with black, white, or half-white, half-black fur, according to…
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Biofuels threaten food security
UN Food Specialist Jean Ziegler has warned that the use of agricultural products to produce biofuels to replace oil will make the world less food and even consider it a
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The hottest peppers in the world
Bhut Jolokia, an Indian chili variety, has just been included in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most spicy chili. This is a variation of the chili variety o…
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Right to create, create ... eyes for creatures
British scientists, Professor Nicholas Dale and Elizabeth Jones of the University of Warwick, England, injected an enzyme into the frog embryo. Strangely, just inject in…
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Detecting new fungi with high protein content
Recently, MSc. Co Duc Trong - Center for Lingzhi and Medicinal Mushrooms has discovered two new fungi (Agaricus brasiliensis) that grow wild. It is the sunflower mushroo…
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'Super mouse' runs fast, lives long ...
The research team at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, has released genetically modified mice that are able to run twice as fast as normal mice.
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New technique: Antiseptic by laser
The world has just got a new technique for antiseptic. It is with a laser. Physicists in the United States say that lasers are capable of killing viruses and bacteria, s…
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Found glowing fish-like creatures in the dark
The researchers found these bi-amphibious organisms, also called lanceletes, which contained green fluorescent proteins that could act as concealed shields.
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'Insect tape'
At first, you may think this is a new method of catching insects, but not so, that is the name scientists put on a new type of adhesive tape with superior features, whic…
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Cure plant rot in potatoes with new methods
Scientists at Cambridge University had a key genetic discovery of the bacteria that caused plant rot, a potato disease that caused economic losses and this discovery cou…
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One more step: Cloning of primates
Monkey cloning technology basically has the same process as the cloning of Dolly sheep. The nucleus of a healthy, unfertilized egg is replaced by another kernel from an…
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Early days of chocolate
Long before the Aztecs brought chocolate to the world, more ancient civilizations used cocoa, the source of chocolate-making materials, to create a completely different…
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Discovered a new orchid species in Vietnam
Phu Quoc National Park has just discovered two more orchids, one of which is the first orchid species recorded in Vietnam: Phyllis (Liparis cf. rhodochila Rolfe)
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Use cooking oil removed to produce bio-oil
Oil prices rose as high as $ 90 a barrel, making the District Police Department of Bangkok, Thailand, self-produced bio-oil from discarded cooking oil for use in fleets.…
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The human embryo has been cloned
American experts have shocked the scientific community by claiming to successfully clone the monkey embryo and produce stem cells from this embryo. This is considered a…