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Drug repurposing
Drug repurposing gets a boost as academic researchers join the search for novel uses of existing drugs. Prashant Nair writes about the recent initiatives of pharmaceutical companies to find new uses...
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The other microbiome–exploring the human virome
Researchers have found that many of the viruses in the human gut are bacteriophages—like the six-legged structure shown here attached to a rod-shaped bacterium—and likely impact health indirectly...
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Foraging flights
Black-browed albatross (Diomedea melanophris) flying near Saunders Island, Falkland Islands What’s the best way for an animal to search for small and irregularly distributed pockets of food when it has...
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Agents of influence: how complex models are starting to influence economic...
“Agent-based models provide a new opportunity to model an economy in a realistic way,” says J. Doyne Farmer, codirector of the complexity economics program at the Institute for New Economic Thinking...
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Fishy numbers for white marlin stocks
White marlin. Image courtesy of Guy Harvey. In 1840, the English chaplain and amateur naturalist Richard Thomas Lowe published a four-line description of a proposed new species of fish. It was a...
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Extrasolar systems shed light on our own
Artist’s conception of the star Beta Pictoris. In the inset panels, composition of two possible mature terrestrial planets orbiting Beta Pictoris. A water-rich planet similar to the Earth (Top); a...
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Solving tough problems with games
Players of Phylo compare the genome sequences of many animals to find genetic segments that are similar. Copyright © 2012 McGill University. All rights reserved. The Foldit Void Crushers Group sounds...
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Although researchers and epidemiologists had long suspected that diet and cancer were linked, efforts to explain why being fat makes cancer more deadly have only begun to deliver results in the past...
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