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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 24th April 2008 07:44 PM GMT] Plant cellular responses are much more locally and temporally specialized than previously thought, a new study suggests. In growing Arabidopsis roots, different tissue layers respond to stressful conditions in highly cell-type specific ways, according to research published online today (April 24) in Science.
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 16th April 2008 02:30 PM GMT] Umpires at Wimbledon, Roland Garros, and Arthur Ashe Stadium might deserve a break, according to a new study published online this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The study found that disputes over close calls during professional tennis matches arise because of double faults in the way information is processed in the brains of players and umpires. Nonetheless, both perceptions are remarkably accurate, though... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 13th April 2008 08:25 PM GMT] The brain's sound processing areas are split into two distinct regions — one which determines what a sound is, the other which tracks where it's coming from, according to research published online today (April 13) in Nature Neuroscience.
For decades, scientists have racked their brains to determine how the mammalian cerebral cortex handles different... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 11th April 2008 04:01 PM GMT] The German parliament voted today (April 11) to ease restrictions on stem cell research, according to Reuters.
The existing law in Germany requires researchers to limit importation of human embryonic stem cell lines to those created abroad before 2002. Under the new bill, which was decided by a 346-228 vote in the Bundestag lower... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 10th April 2008 08:04 PM GMT] Two bacterial species found in the guts of chickens, pigs and other animals are merging into a single species after the domestication of livestock brought the two microbes together, according to a study published today in Science. The research indicates that "despeciation" can be an important consequence of environmental changes in bacterial evolution.
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 4th April 2008 01:59 PM GMT] Wouldn't it be nice to have thousands of collaborators, collecting data and sharing observations, who didn't demand a salary at all? A nation-wide initiative called Project Budburst is enlisting the help of so-called "citizen scientists" to nip the effects of climate change in the bud. But is using the public as a data source scientifically sound?
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 2nd April 2008 03:31 PM GMT] Hybrid embryos containing both human and animal material have been created for the first time in the UK, the BBC reported yesterday (April 1).
Scientists at Newcastle University led by Lyle Armstrong inserted nuclei from human skin cells into hollowed-out cow eggs to create cytoplasmic hybrids, or "cybrids." Some of the human-animal embryos lived for three days, and the largest grew... Click to continue
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