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Suppression of protein critical to cell division stops cancer cells from dividin

Suppression of protein critical to cell division stops cancer cells from dividin

Suppression of protein critical to cell division stops cancer cells from dividing, kills them

Suppressing a newly identified and characterized protein involved in regulating cell division could be a

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SpaceX to launch first docking mission to the ISS

SpaceX to launch first docking mission to the ISS

SpaceX to launch first docking mission to the ISS



A US spacecraft will on

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Plants depend on circadian rhythms to survive freezing weather

Plants depend on circadian rhythms to survive freezing weather

Plants depend on circadian rhythms to survive freezing weather

Washington, Apr 13 (ANI): A study has found that plants depend on circadian rhythms, which are physical, mental and behavioural changes tha

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A Futuristic Car That Combines Functinality With Entertainment And Changes Appea

A Futuristic Car That Combines Functinality With Entertainment And Changes Appea

A Futuristic Car That Combines Functinality With Entertainment And Changes Appearance

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Intrusive Surgery Will Become A Barbaric Medicine Of The Past

Intrusive Surgery Will Become A Barbaric Medicine Of The Past

Intrusive Surgery Will Become A Barbaric Medicine Of The Past

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Three-Month Update of Fukushima Accident and the Flood of New Information Coming

Three-Month Update of Fukushima Accident and the Flood of New Information Coming

Three-Month Update of Fukushima Accident and the Flood of New Information Coming Out

It has been over 3 months after the tragic accident in Fukushima, Japan, and a flood of new information has been comi

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What sets Curiosity apart from other Mars Rovers?

What sets Curiosity apart from other Mars Rovers?

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When WOMEN Compete For MEN They Can Become Quite AGGRESSIVE On Rivals

When WOMEN Compete For MEN They Can Become Quite AGGRESSIVE On Rivals

Women become aggressive around sexual rivals

New research conducted at McMaster University suggests women vying for male attention become aggressive towards other women they see as sexual rivals, a s

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17-year-old wins 100k for creating cancer-killing nanoparticle

17-year-old wins 100k for creating cancer-killing nanoparticle

17-year-old wins 100k for creating cancer-killing nanoparticle



At the age of 17 I was

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THE DRUG DOES WORK

THE DRUG DOES WORK

THE DRUG DOES WORK



At Cambridge over the summer, many students were taking pills to h

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Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth -- visualized

Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth -- visualized

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Dutch Researcher Created A Super-Influenza Virus With The Potential To Kill Mill

Dutch Researcher Created A Super-Influenza Virus With The Potential To Kill Mill

Dutch Researcher Created A Super-Influenza Virus With The Potential To Kill Millions

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The Sombrero Galaxy Contains the Largest, Closest Black Hole

The Sombrero Galaxy Contains the Largest, Closest Black Hole

Infinite Minute #7: M104, The Sombrero Galaxy Contains the Largest, Closest Black Hole

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New insights into how the brain reconstructs the third dimension

New insights into how the brain reconstructs the third dimension

New insights into how the brain reconstructs the third dimension



This is a new illusion in which

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Pharmaceutical spam: Medical disinformation on the internet

Pharmaceutical spam: Medical disinformation on the internet

Pharmaceutical spam: Medical disinformation on the internet

Spam advertising of pharmaceutical products is leading patients to seek out information about prescription drugs online, according to a rep

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Men have a stronger reaction to seeing other men's emotions compared with women'

Men have a stronger reaction to seeing other men's emotions compared with women'

Men have a stronger reaction to seeing other men's emotions compared with women's



Men have

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The Promise of Kepler-22b

The Promise of Kepler-22b

Exciting news from the Kepler mission yesterday! Here's what happened: they discovered a planet that is roughly the size of Earth, and is a good distanc

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Give me your opinion about clonging?

Give me your opinion about clonging?

I think clonging for medical research is good specially clonging body parts or using stem-cell to help people.
I think it is more ethical to save a person than waiting for them to die / suffer in pain.
I want to know opinion of you about

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Sugar and diet

Sugar and diet

How does Sugar affect the body negatively and is there any way to help myself stay away from it permanently? Can you help?

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New Drug Combo Targets Multiple Cancers

New Drug Combo Targets Multiple Cancers

New Drug Combo Targets Multiple Cancers

Sugar molecule primes cancer cells for early death from second compound

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicin

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Big, bad, black hole discovery is Einstein's worst nightmare

Big, bad, black hole discovery is Einstein's worst nightmare

Big, bad, black hole discovery is Einstein's worst nightmare



DON'T get too close. A

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NASA confirms 'super-Earth' that could hold life

NASA confirms 'super-Earth' that could hold life

NASA confirms 'super-Earth' that could hold life

In another step towards finding Earth-like planets that may hold life, NASA said on Monday that the Kepler space telescope had confirmed i

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Monster Black Holes Are Most Massive Ever Discovered: Scientific American

Monster Black Holes Are Most Massive Ever Discovered: Scientific American

Monster Black Holes Are Most Massive Ever Discovered: Scientific American

The discovery, of objects 9.7 billion solar masses large or more, suggests there is still much to learn about how monster bla

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Gene tweak creates supermouse – and prevents diabetes

Gene tweak creates supermouse – and prevents diabetes

Gene tweak creates supermouse – and prevents diabetes

Faster, longer, further… fatter? Knocking out a particular gene in muscle lets mice run twice as far as normal. Knocking out the same gene in fat ce

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Genome sequencing unlocks the mysteries of naked mole rat

Genome sequencing unlocks the mysteries of naked mole rat

Genome sequencing unlocks the mysteries of naked mole rat

BGI, the world’s largest genomic organization, announced that an international team of researchers from Korea, China and USA, for the first time

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Scientists a step closer to cloning mammoth

Scientists a step closer to cloning mammoth

Scientists a step closer to cloning mammoth

YAKUTSK, Russia — The thighbone of a mammoth found in August in Siberia contains well-preserved marrow, increasing the chances of cloning one of the extinct b

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Invisibility Breakthrough for Japanese Researchers

Invisibility Breakthrough for Japanese Researchers

Invisibility Breakthrough for Japanese Researchers

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Cancer cells poisoned with sugar

Cancer cells poisoned with sugar

Cancer cells poisoned with sugar

IT'S a heavy price to pay for a sweet tooth. Researchers have tricked glucose-eating cancer cells into consuming a sugar that essentially poisons them - it leaves a

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'Lethal' radiation doses can be treated with drugs

'Lethal' radiation doses can be treated with drugs

'Lethal' radiation doses can be treated with drugs

MICE can survive a dose of radiation that should have killed them when given a double-drug therapy - even if they get the drug cocktail 24 ho

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Forget antibiotics, try nanoparticles instead

Forget antibiotics, try nanoparticles instead

Forget antibiotics, try nanoparticles instead

FORGET antibiotics, let's try nanoparticles. That's according to DARPA, the US military's research arm, which says that rather than spend mon

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Human Genome Untangled in 3-D

Human Genome Untangled in 3-D

Human Genome Untangled in 3-D

A technique for mapping our DNA in three dimensions emerged from an undergraduate's musings

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Setting the stage for life: Scientists make key discovery about the atmosphere o

Setting the stage for life: Scientists make key discovery about the atmosphere o

Setting the stage for life: Scientists make key discovery about the atmosphere of early Earth

Scientists in the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have used the olde

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Physicists Create a Hole In Time to Hide Events

Physicists Create a Hole In Time to Hide Events

Physicists Create a Hole In Time to Hide Events


Researchers at Cornell University have made

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Stem cells may relieve asthma, say scientists

Stem cells may relieve asthma, say scientists

Stem cells may relieve asthma, say scientists



A University of Alberta research team announced Th

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Biologists deliver neutralizing antibodies that protect against HIV infection in

Biologists deliver neutralizing antibodies that protect against HIV infection in

Biologists deliver neutralizing antibodies that protect against HIV infection in mice



An illustrat

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The immune system has protective memory cells, researchers discover

The immune system has protective memory cells, researchers discover

The immune system has protective memory cells, researchers discover

The immune system possesses a type of cell that can be activated by tissues within the body to remind the immune system not to atta

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DARPA calls for antibiotic replacement

DARPA calls for antibiotic replacement

DARPA calls for antibiotic replacement



Penicillin, the first natural antibiotic disco

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First teeth grew outside of the body

First teeth grew outside of the body

First teeth grew outside of the body



Cheek scales on prehistoric ischnacanthid acanthodian fish like

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Why People's INTUITION Is WRONG In Many cases And In Most People

Why People's INTUITION Is WRONG In Many cases And In Most People

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Delicate Partnership Between Coral And Algae Threatened By Global Warming

Delicate Partnership Between Coral And Algae Threatened By Global Warming

Delicate Partnership Between Coral And Algae Threatened By Global Warming

Over two hundred million humans depend for their subsistence on the fact that coral has an addiction to ‘j

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