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Twirling ribbons, billowing bubbles: computer visualization brings complex aspects of life into view - Cover Story
Researchers are increasingly using computational and visualization techniques to generate computer images of molecules, cells, organs and organisms...
Science News, 11/19/94 by Elizabeth Pennsi · More from publication -
Did insects skim before they flew? - insect evolution
Evolutionary biologist James Marden and student Melissa G. Kramer have proposed that insects first skimmed atop water before they evolved the...
Science News, 10/29/94 by Elizabeth Pennsis · More from publication -
Number 12 steps up to bat; will this immune system messenger hit a grand slam? - immune system messenger interleukin 12; includes related article on increasing interleukin 12 to fight HIV - Cover Story
Research indicates that an immune system messenger called interleukin 12 (IL12) may effectively fight AIDS, cancer and many parasitic infections....
Science News, 08/20/94 by Elizabeth Pennsi · More from publication -
Blackened mangrove, smothered reef; years later, oil still sickens tropical coastal ecosystems - Bahia Las Minas, Panama
Mangrove fields that soaked up a portion of a 1987 oil spill release the oil every rainy season. The findings of a five-year study of the...
Science News, 04/09/94 by Elizabeth Pennsi · More from publication -
Two teams find second colon cancer gene - gene on chromosome 3 accounts for about 25% of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer cases - Brief Article
Two reports show how the quest for the gene for an inherited disorder can lead to a multilab genehunt yielding several defective pieces of DNA....
Science News, 03/19/94 by Elizabeth Pennsi · More from publication -
Static evolution: is pond scum the same now as billions of years ago? - cyanbacteria - Cover Story
Lack of change among blue-green bacteria, or cyanobacteria, prompted paleobiologist J. William Schop to propose new ideas about how evolution...
Science News, 03/12/94 by Elizabeth Pennsi · More from publication -
Molecules that guide or nourish nerves - nerve cell connections - Brief Article
In every developing organism, nerve cells must thread their way through a jumble of other cells to particular targets, be they muscles, sense...
Science News, 03/12/94 by Elizabeth Pennsi · More from publication -
Food cravings tied to brain chemicals
Research indicates that cravings for fat and sugar may be linked to changes in the amounts of neuropeptide Y and galanin in the brain. However, at...
Science News, 11/13/93 by Elizabeth Pennsi · More from publication -
Now in vivid color, details of DNA
Scientists Bradford Windle and Irma Parra have developed a technique that allows the direct measurement of the spacing between specific DNA...
Science News, 09/11/93 by Elizabeth Pennsi · More from publication -
Gene therapy seeks to mend cystic fibrosis
British molecular biologists have boosted the promise of gene therapy as a treatment for cystic fibrosis by correcting a similar genetic defect in...
Science News, 03/20/93 by Elizabeth Pennsi · More from publication
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