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RNA binding site differs significantly from other viruses

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Study finds that calorie-restricted rhesus monkeys have a higher percentage of naïve T cells

Aethlon Medical's blood filter Credit: Courtesy of Kerry Grens" />Aethlon Medical's blood filter Credit: Courtesy of Kerry Grens It's World War III, vaccine shortages have plagued the country, and a suspicious-looking cloud hangs over the city. Bioterror has been a serious threat, and you wonder if maybe that cloud is full of pathogens, or perhaps it's just going to rain. Better not take a chance: You reach for your stash of Hemopurifiers, clasp one to your belt, plug it into your blo

Robo-staurois under construction. Credit: Photo: Markus Böckle" />Robo-staurois under construction. Credit: Photo: Markus Böckle Peter Narins needed a way to convince real frogs that a male intruder has just hopped into their territory and is croaking boldly. So the animal communication researcher came up with the obvious choice: condoms. In 2000, Narins, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues at the University of Vienna glued a condom to the jaw

CATALOGING BIODIVERSITY: Workers examine soil in the Otonga rainforest for new taxa. Credit: Courtesy: World Biodiversity Association, www.biodiversityassociation.org http://www.biodiversityassociation.org _blank" />CATALOGING BIODIVERSITY: Workers examine soil in the Otonga rainforest for new taxa. Credit: Courtesy: World Biodiversity Association, www.biodiversityassociation.org http://www.biodiversityassociation.org _blank For a group of Italian resea

A couple of years ago, Australian postdoc Nate Lo was working at the University of Milan, looking for human pathogens in the tick species Ixodes ricinus, the main vector for Lyme disease. It was all routine until the day his PCR screening protocol revealed a novel 16S rRNA sequence. When his team took a tick apart to look for the new bug, they found it in the ovaries. And, when they looked closely at electron micrographs of infected ovarian tissues, they could see that the microbes w

Shirley Corriher Credit: © Robin Nelson/The New York Times/Redux" />Shirley Corriher Credit: © Robin Nelson/The New York Times/Redux Shirley Corriher knew nothing about cooking until she and her husband opened a boys' boarding school and Corriher - a former chemist at Vanderbilt Medical School - found herself catering for 140. With the measured irony that only those blessed with a southern accent can achieve, Corriher describes the experience as a "trial by fire." Teenage boys are, sh

A 1985 prototype of a semi-automated thermal cycler, hot and cold water baths not included. Credit: Courtesy of The Smithsonian Institution" />A 1985 prototype of a semi-automated thermal cycler, hot and cold water baths not included. Credit: Courtesy of The Smithsonian Institution The "aha" moment and initial experiments in 1983 through which Kary Mullis developed the idea of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) are a well trodden story.1 While Mullis says he immediately realized PCR?s pote

Viral protein blocks RNA silencing in Arabidopsis by inhibiting Argonaute1

Aprotinin's safety profile remains in question in absence of full data disclosure

Ari Handel trained as a neuroscientist so he could write better films