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Plant nutrient-rich dry rice instead of wet rice
A new method of growing rice saves billions of cubic meters of water while ensuring food security and has been successfully tested. These are nutritious and dry seedling…
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The frog legs are used many times
You want a tape that can be used many times? Indian scientists will help you to be satisfied with a special type of duct tape, modeled after the soles of the tree frog.
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Print 3-D stem cells with inkjet cartridges
US scientists are using inkjet cartridges to print three-dimensional structures of stem cells, contributing to boosting the cellular language decoding for medical purpos…
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Successfully propagating an endangered plant species
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in in vitro propagation of Vietnamese yew - an ancient plant species considered as a living fossil of the gymnosperm indust…
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Why do leaves change color?
For years, scientists have wondered how the leaves prepared for a sprawling performance in autumn. The molecules behind yellow and orange are well understood, but s
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Use bacteria to create iridescent paint like pearls
A new technique using microorganisms can provide cheaper and safer solutions in creating cosmetics or paints with iridescent colors of pearls as well as multicolored pla…
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Detailed publication of the map of human gene variants
October 17, 2008 - A group of international scientists has published a map of the human gene variant that has been evaluated to be the most detailed and complete ever.
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New nerves are developed from fat cells
Researchers at the University of Manchester (UK) have created new nerves developed from stem cells taken from rat fat, a progress that may be used to repair damaged peri…
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Pumpkin weighs 686 kg
Recently, Thad Starr's Atlantic Giant pumpkin-like pumpkin, which weighed 686 kg, broke all previous records of the Half Moon Bay area at the Pumpkin World Championship.…
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Appearance can identify stem cells
But scientists in the lab of Whitehead Member Rudolf Jaenisch did not need to use genetic markers in their latest experiments, because the results were easy to see.
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Mice provide many important clues to the obsessive-compulsive disorder
The mice born without key brain proteins were like being forced to rub their faces until they bleed and were afraid to dare to get out of the corner. When offered an alt…
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'Extraordinary mice' are made more extraordinary
Johns Hopkins, the first person to prove myostatin protein deficiency leads to over-sized muscles in mice, and now a second protein, follistatin, has been discovered tha…
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New discovery of the sense of smell of Anopheles mosquitoes
Scientists have discovered an important characteristic of the sense of smell of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, opening up the opportunity to make repellents or attract mo…
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America: The cause of the mass loss of bees by viruses
According to an American study, an Israeli virus identified in 2004 could be the cause of a mysterious disappearance of a number of bees in the US, threatening the crop…
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Cells that cause allergy symptoms can limit damage
Researchers from Stanford Medical University discovered that a blood cell known as a pruritus and an inflammation in allergies, mast cells can also alleviate the anger. .