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... working on an interesting gene in worms.” One insight led to another until, “We uncovered the last unknown enzyme in the synthesis ... contribute to vitamin C synthesis. The researchers, led by Brenner and Clarke, reconstituted in test tubes the long mysterious ...
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... and professor of materials science and engineering, who led the study. "Most existing detection methods require expensive complicated ...
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... along with human speech, language and brainpower, have led many people to believe that natural selection has acted in a positive ...
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... have been identified or confirmed by a U.S.-Finnish team led by scientists at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. ...
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- Organic Solar-powered LEDs Mean Customizable Clothes
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... But now an international consortium of researchers, led by the University of Bath, UK, has begun an £850,000 ($1,700,000), ...
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- Minuscule Molecules Pack Powerful Punch
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... their activity in the cell. The research team, led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, targeted a gene called ... Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2006 for RNAi, which led to discovery of mechanism of action of miRNAs. Source: Wellcome Trust ...
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... sex,” said graduate student Travis Lovejoy, who led the study along with Ohio University health psychologist Timothy Heckman. ...
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- Study Reveals What Makes Plants Flower
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... Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, has led to the proposal that this signal is a protein known as Flowering Locus T ...
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... showed that raising either MLDA or beer taxes in isolation led to fewer youth-traffic fatalities. However, the study found "an interaction ...
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- PCB95 Causes Developmental Abnormalities In Rats
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... profoundly affect development," says Tal Kenet, PhD, who led the research while a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of senior author ...
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