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The secret of ant's healing ability
According to US scientists, the chemical in an ant species in China can help create anti-inflammatory drugs, relieve pain and cure many other diseases.
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'Death scent' helps ants realize dead bodies
When an ant dies, other members will quickly bury it to prevent the risk of spreading the disease.
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Bacteria can produce rain
Without leaving the ground, bacteria can still produce rain if the chemicals they release into the air reach the locations of the clouds.
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Art of seduction of leukemia
Leukocytes emit an extremely attractive chemical to attract stem cells to make blood to their lair. After entering the lair of white blood cells, stem cells will quickly…
Biology
Hair color remover is the assistant of murderers
Chemicals that people often use to bleach hair may disable the medical doctor's blood detection techniques when investigating homicide.
Biology
Flies also suffer from 'neighbors'
Two new studies are published in the September 11 edition of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, revealing that fruit flies are also affected by neighbors.
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Trees also have painkillers
Plants produce chemicals that relieve pain like Aspirin that we use often.
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Color of insects with anti-cancer drugs and tropical diseases
According to researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, the beetle-colored beetles or butterfly-colored larvae may signal chemical compounds t…
Biology
The relationship between sex and age in worms
A group of scientists studying sex pheromone in worms found that this pheromone simultaneously controls a stage in the worms' life cycle, the long-lived larval stage.
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Hanoi: Cleaning lake water with internal technology
On June 25, Ho Van with Kim Chau Island is famous in history books and is an indispensable part of the architectural complex of Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam historical and cu…
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Enzymes designed to protect themselves promise many medical applications
Chemists at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Washington have recently built successful
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Found earthworms that contain chemicals from household and animal manure
The earthworms studied in agricultural fields have been found to contain organic chemicals from household products and fertilizers, suggesting that these substances are…
Biology
For the first time, the bacterial gene was created - the largest chemical structure synthesized in a laboratory
The team of 17 people from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) has just created the largest artificial DNA ever by synthesizing and assembling 582,970 base pairs of a b…
Biology
Corn-based Bio-PDO resin - The next wave in the biological revolution
The leading DuPont chemical group of the United States has joined a joint venture with Tata & Lyle PLC, a multinational agricultural processing group, to build a $ 100 m…
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Thousands of chemicals need to be re-evaluated for toxicity
According to a new study by scientists, thousands of chemicals need to be re-evaluated for their possible toxicity to human health and the environment.