Music videos could be helpful tools for science communication and education, but anti- and pseudoscience activists are also using this medium to spread their views.
Music videos could be helpful tools for science communication and education, but anti- and pseudoscience activists are also using this medium to spread their views.
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Researchers find that a deadly bacterial disease hitchhikes in people infected with the virus that causes AIDS to spread throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Unwilling to accept the finality of terminal differentiation, Helen Blau has honed techniques that showcase the flexibility of cells to adopt different identities.
In Chapter 3, "Out of the Tropics," author Nina G. Jablonski, explores the genes behind skin pigmentation and makes the distinction between color and race.
A new assay shows that cells use lamellipodia as their primary mechanism to seal up holes in epithelial tissue.
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