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1918 Spanish Flu Mystery Solved

2017-06-19 11:55:28| A1AWEB Internet Advertising, Website Creation, Marketing, Promotion, SEO

Scientists solve 30-year old mystery on how resistance genes spread

2017-06-16 06:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld

[NEWS] To win the war against antibiotic resistant super bugs, scientists seek to find the origin of resistance genes. Further, they try to identify how the genes are introduced to disease-causing bacteria - so-called pathogens. Identifying where resistance genes come from and how they spread somewhat compares to finding patient zero in an outbreak, which is not an easy task. For more than 30 years, scientists have proposed that resistance genes actually originate from the microo…

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Bacterial discovery solves 20-year-old molecular paleontology mystery

2017-01-19 23:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld

[NEWS] A fatty molecule thought to be unique to flowering plants has turned up in bacteria skimmed from the Adriatic Sea. The surprising finding solves a 20-year-old paleontological mystery and could affect how scientists interpret the presence of this molecule in the ecological record. Where once it suggested the presence of land and flowering plants, it could indicate marine or freshwater-dwelling bacteria instead. The molecule in question, isoarborinol, is a fatty molecule, or lip…

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The Higgs Bison -- mystery species hidden in cave art

2016-10-18 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld

[NEWS] IMAGE:Â This is a reproduction of a putative wisent painted in the Marsoulas cave (Haute-Garonne, France) during the the Magdalenian period. Credit: Picture from Carole Fritz Ancient DNA research has revealed that Ice Age cave artists recorded a pre…

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