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A New Approach to Combatting HIV view story
17 votes- Submitted by maheshee11
- 8 months ago
- (http://www.technologyreview.com/B...)
High-tech solutions of oil in water could lead to an effective HIV vaccine.
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Google Might or Might Not Keep Your Medical Secrets view story
16 votes- Submitted by maheshee11
- 8 months ago
- (http://www.environmentalgraffiti....)
Oh, the fun the UK-based readers miss out on by not having privatized healthcare. Google, who we all know and love and may ...
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GMO plantings rise view story
15 votes- Submitted by maheshee11
- 9 months ago
- (http://www.reuters.com/article/en...)
Plantings of genetically modified (GMO) crops are increasingly widespread, a biotech industry body said on Wednesday, despite some public opposition and warnings by environmentalists that they may be unsafe.
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New way how HIV works identified view story
15 votes- Submitted by maheshee11
- 9 months ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11...)
The discovery is the identification of a new human receptor for H.I.V. The receptor helps guide the virus to the gut after it gains entry to the body, where it begins its relentless attack on the immune system.
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Giant palm tree 'flowers itself to death' view story
9 votes- Submitted by maheshee11
- 10 months ago
- (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science...)
An enormous palm tree that grows to dizzying heights before committing floral hara-kiri has been identified as a new genus by botanists in Madagascar
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Molecular Evolution: Mice Given Bat-like Forelimbs Through Gene Switch view story
11 votes- Submitted by maheshee11
- 10 months ago
- (http://www.sciencedaily.com/relea...)
Scientists have successfully switched the mouse Prx1 gene regulatory element with the Prx1 gene regulatory region from a bat -- and although these two species are separated by millions of years of evolution -- the resulting transgenic mice displayed abnor
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Better Bugs for Making Butanol view story
8 votes- Submitted by maheshee11
- 10 months ago
- (http://www.technologyreview.com/E...)
Engineered E. coli proves efficient at churning out the biofuel.
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Hopes of custom-built organs as scientists create beating heart view story
12 votes- Submitted by maheshee11
- 10 months ago
- (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/...)
SCIENTISTS have created a beating heart in the laboratory in a breakthrough that could allow doctors one day to make a range of organs for transplant almost from scratch.
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A LIST OF ONLINE RESOURCES ON IMMUNOLOGY view story
7 votes- Submitted by maheshee11
- 10 months ago
- (http://biophilessurf.info/immuno....)
A collection of online resources (databases, bioinfo tools, tutorials, etc) on Immunology.
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GLOBETROTTER ECO CAR Wins Young Designer of the Year view story
17 votes- Submitted by maheshee11
- 11 months ago
- (http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/12/...)
Ever imagined driving in an ultra lightweight, solar-powered plastic car? If designer Harsha Ravi has his way, this will be the future of sustainable automobiles.

