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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:04:21 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Biosensing
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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:06:30 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Variation in the Same Gene Affects Rate of Parasite Infection in Both Humans and Baboons
Variation in the Same Gene Affects Rate of Parasite Infection in Both Humans and Baboons
Researchers at the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy have found that variation in the same gene in humans and baboons produces the same kind of disease resistance. The findings were published in the June 24 online edition of the journal Nature.
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), lead authors Gregory Wray, Susan Alberts and Jenny Tung drew on Alberts' longtime study of the yellow baboons in Kenya's Amboseli National Park to examine ...
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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:07:04 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Stream of Sand Behaves Like Water
Stream of Sand Behaves Like Water
University of Chicago researchers recently showed that dry granular materials such as sands, seeds and grains have properties similar to liquid, forming water-like droplets when poured from a given source. The finding could be important to a wide range of industries that use "fluidized" dry particles for oil refining, plastics manufacturing and pharmaceutical production.
Researchers previously thought dry particles lacked sufficient surface tension to form droplets like ...
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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:27:34 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Weather Forecasts of Great Value to Americans, Survey Finds
Weather Forecasts of Great Value to Americans, Survey Finds
Close to nine out of 10 adult Americans obtain weather forecasts an average of more than three times each day, a new nationwide survey by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., has found.
The value Americans place on forecasts appears to be far more than the nation spends on public and private weather services. While the authors cautioned that it is difficult to put a dollar figure on the value of forecasts, the survey indicated that ...
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