Monday, November 7th, 2011
Most human populations are the product of a series of range expansions having occurred since modern humans left Africa some 50,000 years ago to colonize the rest of the world, but how have these processes influenced today's population diversity? An international research team led by Damian Labuda at the University ...
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
According to a report in the August issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, supplying training to surgical residents to more effectively communicate with patients in specific scenarios (for example, when a patient has cancer), may enhance their communication skills for specific cases, but not their general ...
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Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Our bodies are perfectly capable of renewing billions of cells every day but fail miserably when it comes to replacing damaged organs such as kidneys. Using the flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea-famous for its capacity to regrow complete animals from minuscule flecks of tissue-as an eloquent example, researchers at the Stowers Institute ...
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Saturday, August 13th, 2011
Male squid (Loligo bleekeri) employ different reproductive strategies depending on their body size. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology shows that the divergent mating behavior of male squid has resulted in the evolution of different sperm sizes. Large male squid compete for females by courting ...
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Friday, April 29th, 2011
Analysis of mutations of the 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) virus by researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) has revealed major genetic differences between the virus in its early phase of infection in Japan and in its peak phase. While yielding valuable clues on the genetic origins of drug ...
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