Biology & Life Sciences

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Smithsonian March 2007	Wild Things: Life as We Know It Slow Food... Orphan Flower Finds Family... Gators in the Gym... Holding Ground... etc.
Science News February 24, 2007 Janet Raloff	Of Bamboo and French Fries A bamboo extract can limit the formation of a carcinogen in baked and fried foods.
Scientific American March 2007 Steve Mirsky	Tough to Swallow Although the medical literature has, until now, featured only scattered case reports of sword swallowing-related injury, sword swallowers in fact played an important role in medical history.
Scientific American March 2007 Alison Snyder	Sight for Sore Eyes Having generated a cell source and overcome the safety concerns associated with transplanting stem cells, researchers still face possibly their biggest challenge: showing that the transplanted photoreceptors wire up to other neurons that eventually connect to the optic nerves.
Chemistry World February 19, 2007 Henry Nicholls	Researchers Sink Their Teeth in Scientists in Japan claim to be the first to have grown teeth in the lab that can then be successfully grafted into adult animals. But publication of their research in Nature Methods this week has drawn some scathing criticism.
Science News February 17, 2007 Janet Raloff	Don't Push Babies' Growth Overfeeding low-birthweight infants risks programming them for high blood pressure later in life.
Chemistry World February 14, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Slim-Line Silicon Speeds up Protein Separation Tough, ultra-slim silicon membranes could drastically improve the performance of lab-on-a-chip micro-analytical systems, kidney dialysis machines and, in the future, even produce an artificial kidney, claim researchers.
Smithsonian February 2007 Whitney Dangerfield	Family Ties African Americans use scientific advances to trace their roots.
Chemistry World February 9, 2007 Victoria Gill	Africa's First Large-Scale HIV Vaccine Trial The first large-scale clinical trial of an HIV vaccine will involve around 3000 participants in five selected sites in South Africa. It will compare the effectiveness of the vaccine at reducing HIV infection compared to a placebo.
Chemistry World February 8, 2007 Victoria Gill	Simple Hormone Treatment Cures Lethal Heart Condition Researchers have discovered that a drug commonly prescribed to new mothers to halt lactation also cures a rare type of heart failure known as postpartum cardiomyopathy.
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