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The Foraminifera ("Hole Bearers") represent a group of amoeba-related protozoa that produce a test (shell) which can have either one or multiple chambers, and in some cases can be extremely complex. The shells are perforated by holes through which the unicellular animal extends its "tentacles", called "pseudopodia", ... |
18 April 2008
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We all know that how we look, behave and function is a question of genes. And genes are made of DNA. But now, a team at Princeton's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, in a research to be published in the journal "Nature", challenges this.They have found an "epigenetic" pathway bypassing DNA, in a ty... |
7 January 2008
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We proud ourselves with the latest technological achievements, the performances of the latest computers, or newly discovered galaxies and black holes, but in the XXIst century, there are still infections against which we are defenseless and which, with all the medical advances, keep on killing millions of people ever... |
12 November 2007
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In the XXIst century, there are still infections against which we are defenseless and which - despite all the medical advances - continue to kill millions of people every year. Poverty, war, lack of health infrastructure, immigration, trade, globalization contribute to the spread of the diseases. In the last years, o... |
2 June 2007
06:00 GMT |
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