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Plankton can change the weather and create clouds
It is said that size does not matter, and this is also true for tiny plankton. These are the living creatures that float freely in the ocean and they are
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New role of tiny RNA in plant growth
Biological researchers at Rice Institute, MIT found microRNA plays an essential role in gene expression. Discovered for the first time from previous years, scientists ar…
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Hair-forming stem cells have been tested in rat skin
In adult mice, their skin contains stem cells capable of producing skin and hair. Although this result has been anticipated, the latest published work is near
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A rich source of medicinal herbs from deep waters.
For the first time, a group of researchers at Scripps Ocean Institute at the University of California, San Diego showed that the deposits in the deep sea floor are impor…
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Monkey Actinidiaceae - Super grade fruit
The recent monkey monkey became famous, it was a wild vines, pear-like shape, the color of the peach, Macaca monkeys loved to eat, so the name was Dao monkey. In China p…
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Why do humans have so few genes?
When leading biologists around the world are trying to explain the human genome in the late 1990s, they try to estimate the number of genes contained in the 3 billion ba…
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Where is the genetic variation and personal health related?
The scientists detected and found that succinylcholine metabolism was too slow to be involved in specific genetic variations. An estimated 1,3500 individuals carry two v…
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The Y chromosome helps detect nesting tools
According to a recent study based on genetic information from Y chromosome, about 1.5 million people in Mongolia and northern China share ancestors. The historical data…
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Poppy Flower - The symbol of Belgium
Poppy tree is herbaceous plant, life span is about 2 years. April, 5 blooms purple, white, red and pink, very beautiful. It originates from Europe and North Asia, Belgia…
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China: Successful transplant of stem cells into goat embryos
On May 29, a group of scientists in Shanghai, China, said they had successfully implanted the world's first goat embryonic stem cells - an important step forward in the…
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Successfully breeding 'food plants'
From a tree originating in remote Central America and North Africa, Master Mai Thi Tan - Director of Hapro Herb has propagated and successfully bred hibiscus sabdariffa…
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Mice recognize how different age?
Professor Gary Beauchamp and colleagues from Monell Sensory Chemistry Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have discovered that mice can recognize older animals through…
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Mold (Aspergillus) - Doctor of fermentation
In the mushroom family there is a doctor, which is a milestone. Mycelium of the mold has a diaphragm of a multicellular mold. Its colonies are colorful, creating differe…
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Can bacteria live at 121 degrees Celsius?
According to two microbiologists Derek Lovley and Kazem Kashefi, of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (USA), the limit of temperature at which life can survive…
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DNA revealed a descendant of Genghis Khan
Tom Robinson, an American, has long wondered about his family tree. However, he never thought that the ancestors of the lineage were forever in the Mongolian steppe.