Biophysics
Biophysics applies the laws and methods of physics to the study of biological systems. It has only recently emerged as a subdivison of physics and as such, it represents one of the most spe...
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An ecosystem is a relationship between plants, animals and micro-organisms with their non-living environment. The interactions which occur between the living and non living sectors, the cycling of nut...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A single gene may be crucial
for the final stages of sperm cell formation and could help
explain why some men are infertile, U.S. researchers said
Wednesday. Laboratory mice wh...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have made a
very small research tool that may one day help scientists probe
the activity of genes and proteins in a single cell, they said
Thursday, opening th...
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All three of Darlene Royalty's daughters began to go blind at age 8, victims of a rare and brutal brain disorder with no cure.Against the odds, Amber, Sandy and Sarah have survived into their 20s. ...
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All three of Darlene Royalty's daughters began to go blind at age 8, victims of a rare and brutal brain disorder with no cure.Against the odds, Amber, Sandy and Sarah have survived into their 20s. ...
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The embattled chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, avoided a public rebuke from faculty members, apologizing for withdrawing an offer to make a liberal legal scholar the dean of the ...
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HONG KONG, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Fear may be linked to the
sense of smell, and can be switched off simply by shutting down
certain receptors in the brain, Japanese scientists have found. In an experim...
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He refuses to own a TV, doesn't read newspapers, hates stories about himself and talksthisfast on the rare occasions he does speak to reporters. Jamie Thomson, Wisconsin's stem cell pioneer, does n...
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He refuses to own a TV, doesn't read newspapers, hates stories about himself and talksthisfast on the rare occasions he does speak to reporters. Jamie Thomson, Wisconsin's stem cell pioneer, does n...
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James Dewey Watson was in a race to unmask the chemical structure of living matter.But he was falling behind.In 1950, Watson took his doctorate in genetics and headed to England's Cambridge Univers...
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IRVINE The professor in the necktie sinks into a crouch, then slashes the air with his hands.He is unsmiling. He is proficient. He’s kind of scary.“Yeah, damn well I can fight,” s...
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