The gut-infecting bacterium Clostridium difficile is evolving into two separate species, with one group highly adapted to spread in hospitals, according to new research. …read more Source:: Science
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Fires fueled spread of grasslands on ancient Earth
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•Ancient wildfires played a crucial role in the formation and spread of grasslands like those that now cover large parts of the Earth. …read more Source:: Science
Same mutations underpin spread of cancer in individuals
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•Scientists have arrived at a key understanding about how cancers in individual patients spread, or metastasize. …read more Source:: Science
Why life on Earth first got big
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•Some of the earliest complex organisms on Earth — possibly some of the earliest animals to exist — got big not to compete for food, but to spread their offspring …read more Source:: Science
Laser technology takes Maya archeologists where they’ve never gone before
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•With the help of airborne laser mapping technology, a team of archeologists is exploring on a larger scale than ever before the history and spread of settlement at the ancient …read more Source:: Science
Specific set of nerve cells controls epileptic seizures’ spread through brain
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•Experimental activation of a small set of nerve cells in the brain prevents convulsive seizures in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy, the most common form of epilepsy among …read more Source:: Science
Bitcoin study shows value of exclusive access for early adopters
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•Delaying access for the tech-savvy can stifle spread of new products, experiment with students shows. …read more Source:: Science
Hormone replacement therapies help breast cancer grow, spread
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•Women who take hormone replacement therapies have a higher incidence of breast cancer, research shows. Now, researchers have linked natural and synthetic progestins to the body’s production of specialized cancer …read more Source:: Science
In fathering, peace-loving bonobos don’t spread the love
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•Bonobos have a reputation for being the peaceful, free-loving hippies of the primate world. But, researchers have discovered that despite friendly relations between the sexes, particular males have a surprisingly …read more Source:: Science
Thousands of genes influence most diseases, researchers report
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•In a provocative new perspective piece, researchers say that disease genes are spread uniformly across the genome, not clustered in specific molecular pathways, as has been thought. …read more Source:: Science