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'Hobbits' Were a Distinct Species, Study Concludes
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FRIDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) --The ancient dwarfs known as "hobbits" weren't humans shrunk down by disease, scientists now say, but instead, they were a distinct human species. The researchers came
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Scientists find secrets from mapping corn genome
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Corn seems to be a good answer. Now the scientific world has at hand the complete genome sequence of corn, announced by researchers who have collaborated over the past four years and published their results
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Sushi DNA Tests Reveal Fraud
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A biologist walks into a sushi bar and orders some tuna. What does he get? Escolar, a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge.
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Fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles
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WASHINGTON: A 20-foot-long crocodile with three sets of fangs - like wild boar tusks - roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers reported. While this fearsome creature hunted
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Scientists zero in on reason for mammoths' demise
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About 15,000 years ago, North America was home to an astonishing number of large plant-eating mammals -- giant sloths, mastodons, mammoths. A thousand years later, they were all gone, wiped from the face
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Breast cancer study identifies tumor-causing enzyme
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Scientists have identified an enzyme that is crucial for turning breast tissue into tumors, according to a study published in the journal Cell. The Institute of Cancer Research says blocking the enzyme
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Cigarettes Harbor Many Bacteria Harmful to Human Health
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Cigarettes are 'widely contaminated' with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher
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Research: Why bird flu has not caused a pandemic
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Bird flu viruses would have to make at least two simultaneous genetic mutations before they could be transmitted readily from human to human, according to research published in PLoS ONE. Related The authors
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Mammoth dung clue to changing landscape
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MADISON, Wis., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A study of mammoth dung from a lake bed in Indiana suggests a crashing comet did not wipe out North America's largest ice age animals, scientists said.
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Corn Genome Successfully Sequenced
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WASHINGTONâ??USDA scientists have completed a four-year effort to sequence the genome of corn. The work is expected to lead to development of corn varieties with higher yields and better tolerance of
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Scientists unearth 'supercroc' that dined on dinosaurs
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Palaentologists uncover five new crocodile species in Sahara Close Mike Hettwer/National Geographic Professor Paul Sereno with 'supercroc' A graveyard of ancient crocodiles has revealed that the world
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Just Like Old Times: Generating RNA Molecules In Water
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Appearing in the Nov. 27, 2009, issue (Vol. 284, No. 48) of JBC A key question in the origin of biological molecules like RNA and DNA is how they first came together billions of years ago from simple
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