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Scientists Redraw the Blueprint of the Body’s Biological Clock
The discovery of a major gear in the biological clock that tells the body when to sleep and metabolize...
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Genetic Mutation Linked to Autism Risk
Newly found gene mutations tied to autism may one day help scientists classify types of the developmental disorder and...
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Ants Share Pathogens for Immunity
Ants put an active effort into developing social immunity, the phenomenon whereby contact with infected individuals can confer resistance...
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PTSD Study Could Lead to New Therapies, Screenings
Why do some persons succumb to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) while others who suffered the same ordeal do not?...
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Supreme Court: Human Genes Can’t Be Patented
In a closely watched case, the Supreme Court threw out a lower court ruling allowing human genes to be...
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Living Micro-Robot Could Diagnose Disease
Biologists and engineers are working on a tiny robot that functions like a living creature and could be safely...
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Military Wants Keys to Biological Clock
An unprecedented project that will attempt to unravel the ways our biological clocks tick is underway by the Defense...
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Fatty Diet Leads to Fat-Loving Brain Cells
Cheeseburgers pack on the pounds, but in mice a high-fat diet also packs on new nerve cells in the...
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Early Exposure to Germs Has Lasting Benefits
Findings help to explain how microbes programme a developing immune system.
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Could Human and Computer Viruses Merge, Threatening Both Realms?
Information security experts believe the blurring of the boundaries between computer and biological viruses is not too far-fetched—and could...