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Researchers from Brown University and their collaborators have developed a new way to measure the properties of cells—an ...
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Scientists at EPFL have developed CenSpark, a fluorescent probe that makes centrioles and cilia visible inside living cells, ...
You might know the short-tailed shearwater and sable shearwater by the common name "muttonbirds." These two species of ...
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Scientists have mapped in unprecedented detail the structure of Vibrio bacteria, which can cause life-threatening infections ...
The GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and the international accelerator facility FAIR have made an important ...
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