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  Cells migrate collectively by intermittent bursts of activity

  6 hours ago

  Cell migration is a central process in the development and maintenance of multicellular organisms. Researchers of Aalto University and their research partners have now discovered that this motion occurs by intermittent bursts ...

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  Wild grass species found unable to adapt rapidly enough to survive global warming

  6 hours ago weblog

  (Phys.org)—A trio of researchers with the University of Arizona has found evidence that suggests many wild grass species will be at risk of disappearing from certain areas as the planet heats up. In their paper published ...

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  Pesticide predicament for California's strawberry growers

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  The powerful fumigant methyl bromide will be retired from California's strawberry fields at the end of this year after more than 20 years of fierce debate over its effects and alternatives.

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  Cocaine accumulation in fish eyes

  7 hours ago

  A study by Eawag and Zurich University researchers using a new imaging method has revealed that, surprisingly, cocaine accumulates in the eyes of zebrafish. The findings indicate that chemicals – especially psychoactive ...

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  Researchers get mixed results in training dogs to sniff out lung cancer in humans

  7 hours ago report

  (Phys.org)—A team of researchers at Krems University Hospital in Vienna Austria has found mixed results while conducting studies to determine the viability of using dogs to detect lung cancer in human beings. In their paper ...

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  Gecko study offers evidence that small morphological changes can lead to large changes in function

  8 hours ago

  How do key innovations in the animal kingdom arise? To explore this question, gecko expert Timothy Higham, an associate professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside, led a team of evolutionary biologists ...

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  Vital interplay between microorganisms and extracellular minerals

  8 hours ago

  Some minerals abundant in soils and in aquatic and subsurface sediments electronically support microbial growth by supplying electrons or storing them as "environmental batteries," according to this new review article. Microbial ...

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  Wind turbines killing more than just local birds, study finds

  9 hours ago

  Wind turbines are known to kill large birds, such as golden eagles, that live nearby. Now there is evidence that birds from up to hundreds of miles away make up a significant portion of the raptors that are killed at these ...

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  Drug manufacturers need to understand how their products affect entire biological networks

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  Decoys in DNA may serve a larger purpose than drug designers suspect, according to Rice University scientists.

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  Researchers find way to ID many pathogens with few DNA probes

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  Rice University scientists have invented a technology that could potentially identify hundreds of bacterial pathogens simply, quickly and at low cost using a single set of random DNA probes. Rice's "universal microbial diagnostic," ...