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Genetic connection to sleep duration

Scientists of the Wisconsin-Madison University have identified a gene that appears to directly affect the daily sleep duration. These experimental studies could be crucial in understanding the processes of sleeping disorders. So far, this effect is found only in the lab investigation of mutant fruit flies, but the counterpart of this gene is also present [...]

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Stem cells are not identical

What is stem cells? This are immature cells capable of regenerating and development in specialized cells of the organism. Biology experiment of German scientists (Neuherberg, 2010) found that stem cells are not identical. Two definite types of regenerating blood cells have been spotted in mice, muddying a simplistic aspect of stem cell categories. Knowing how [...]

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Fight cellulite and wrinkles – one method

Cellulite skin is one of the most usual good looks problems and its treatment is often the clinical trial results not based on a correct rationale nor included in acknowledged protocols. Causes cellulite occur under the influence of a numeral of biochemical and metabolic changes in the interstitial matrix (pH changes, free radicals raise, temperature [...]

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100 days from the beginning of the end. The catastrophe of global scale

Gusher is gushing every second.. every day.. each of the hundred… What will be habitat ecology-morrow? According to unofficial information known at mid-July, the Gulf got from 420 to 840 million gallons of oil. In this BP spray 42 millions of gallons of poisonous Dispersants COREXIT 9500 – in fact nobody knows exactly how many, [...]

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Proton excites quantum physics

When physicists are revising their laws, as a rule, global cataclysm does not occur. But when it comes to fundamental constants, even people far from science to pay attention to it. Recently, the news, that the radius of the proton, inscribed in all the textbooks have been counted correctly, excite the scientific world. New experimental [...]

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