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Using biological building blocks found inside a living cell, researchers have created a material that moves itself. 
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Rival colonies of the bacteria Paenibacillus dendritiformis can produce a lethal chemical that keeps competitors at bay. When competing colonies get too close poisons are unleashed, creating a toxic no-man's land in between.
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The menopause evolved, in part, to prevent competition between a mother and her new daughter-in-law, according to research published today in the journal Ecology Letters.
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In this post we will talk about biologically controlled robots.
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Un voyage métaphysique de l'existant au néant, à travers des paysages mentaux aux résonances psychédéliques.
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APC scientists have shown that brain levels of serotonin, the ‘happy hormone’ are regulated by the amount of bacteria in the gut during early life.
Gina Stepp's comment,
June 12, 2012 11:08 PM
Interesting . . . especially considering that gut regulation and other emotion-related processes are affected by early-life bonding (attachment . . . relationships). You can't separate bodily health from mental health in the end.
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Forget computer viruses - magnet-making bacteria could be used to build tomorrow’s computers with larger hard drives and speedier connections.
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Five-thousand-year-old DNA gives insight into the spread of agriculture across Europe.
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US scientists have grown human blood vessels in a laboratory, a development that could revolutionize bypass surgery and help babies with congenital heart defects and patients on dialysis.
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Genetics | Out of all the possible molecules in the world, just two form the basis of life’s grand variety: DNA and RNA. Articles about GENETICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=genetics
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Researchers have found that a single gene that can help explain what time of day you are likely to die.
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According to scientists, attractive women with female bosses need to be extremely cautious about when they ask for a pay rise. Women at peak fertility, says a new study, are much more competitive with attractive counterparts, as the warring duo played by Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada amply showed.
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Researchers from Harvard have now encoded an entire book in molecules of DNA- the building blocks of life.
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(Credit: DARPA) Researchers in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT plan to develop a technology platform that will mimic human physiological systems in the laboratory, using an array of integrated, interchangeable engineered human... Via Wildcat2030, Mariana Soffer
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Meet robo-squirrel. New technology in the emerging field of bio-robotics is helping biologists learn more about animal behavior. More on ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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Children and even grandchildren of older fathers may live longer than children of younger men.
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DNA may be ‘selfish’, but the emergent behaviour of cells can get pretty altruistic at times!
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A new essay, published May 8 in the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology, examines what really constitutes 'life' and the probability of discovering new life forms.
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New research on plant communication raises questions on the final frontier of dietary ethics.
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A "self-repair" mechanism has been found by which developing organisms recognize and correct facial defects. A tadpole model showed organisms aren't genetically hard-wired with cell movements that result in normal facial features.
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Networks governing processes in nature and society are becoming increasingly amenable to modeling, forecast and control.
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