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When the "cat" is away Free
This article, by George Foulsham in Futurity.com, could be read in connection with Communities & ecosystems for Food chains & webs as well as with Populations for factors that influence population growth;...
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Asthma Factor Free
How air pollution is involved in the immune response in the lungs is the focus in this study in California. "While air pollution is known to be a source of immediate inflammation, a new study provides...
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Human Height Genes Free
An international group of hundreds of researchers who had previously been competing in genetic research have combined their efforts to look at how human height is controlled by "hundreds" of genes. In...
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IVF Nobel Prize 2010 Free
Robert G Edwards has received the Nobel Prize for Medicine this year. His work began in the 1950's and the climax came in July 1978 with the first test tube baby, Louise Brown. She has since had a child...
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Ocean Trophic Levels Free
Given the choice of blubber or muscle, what do you think they would choose? The article "Jaws Exposed" in the Daily Mail Online about great white sharks feeding on a whale carcass provides many links...
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Oktoberfest bacteria Free
I live just outside of Munich and this is the season of Oktoberfest, the world renowned festival, even though most of the festival is in September! Germans call it the largest Folk Festival in the...
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Membrane Proteins Free
Yesterday, as I was discussing the significance of polar and nonpolar amino acids in Proteins, I drew the classic diagram of a channel protein in a membrane on the whiteboard. When I asked the students...
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Photophosphorylation Free
Yesterday I tried a little theatre in my HL class. Students chose roles of the different "characters" of the chemiosmosis process. I pushed the tables away and put the chairs in a oval shape. Students...
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Conservation of endangered species Free
Paul Harris has written a fantastic article ‘The Frozen Zoo aiming to bring endangered species back from the brink’ in this week’s Observer Harris,Paul. " The Frozen Zoo aiming to bring endangered species...
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Ecosystems at Risk Free
Matthew Knight's article in CNNKnight, Matthew. "U.N. report: Eco-systems at 'tipping point' - CNN.com." CNN.com International - Breaking, World, Business, Sports, Entertainment and Video News. N.p.,...