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Across the Curious Parallel of Language and Species Evolution
Evolutionary biologists are applying their tools to language—and trying to work out why the dynamics of language and biological evolution look so similar.
WikiPathways: Pathway Editing for the People
WikiPathways provides a collaborative platform for creating, updating, and sharing pathway diagrams and serves as an example of content curation by the biology community.
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Using reduced-impact timber-harvesting practices in legally logged tropical forests would reduce global carbon emissions by 0.16 Gt/year at a modest cost and with little risk of "leakage" (increased carbon emissions elsewhere).
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In leaves, cells get larger as cell division decreases or the ploidy increases. This might seem a logical response, but the controls are more complicated.
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The development of a short-time scale colloidal system introduces flow cytometry as a tool to investigate both physicochemical and molecular aspects of bacterial adhesion to solid surfaces.
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Controversy surrounds the glycolipid iGb3, but new evidence shows that humans do not express this lipid, which has important implications for human immune system function in relation to natural killer T cell development, self-recognition, and transplantation.
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