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Superweeds? Suicides? Stealthy genes? The true, the false and the still unknown about transgenic crops. Delete the scoop?
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Together with James Watson, Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA, one of the most important scientific advances of the 20th century. Delete the scoop?
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Flowers are electric billboards! Bumblebees can sense the electric fields of flowers, and detect recently visited ones. … Delete the scoop?
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(Phys.org)—Worldwide, many strains of the bacterium Staphyloccocus aureus, commonly known as staph infections, are already resistant to all antibiotics except vancomycin. But as bacteria are becoming resistant to this once powerful antidote, S. Via Dr. Mary T. Johnson Delete the scoop?
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Researchers have traced the bacterial microbiota map in breast milk and identified the species of microbes taken from breast milk by infants. The study has revealed a larger microbial diversity than originally thought: more than 700 species. Delete the scoop?
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Anaerobic bacteria lived 2.4 billion years ago in oxygen-free environments and still continue to thrive today. The Winogradsky Column activity will teach you how to build a column and culture anaerobes. Delete the scoop?
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A new study reveals a large mix of microbes in most human belly buttons. Delete the scoop?
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Researchers have described the first documented case of a child being cured of HIV. The case involves a two-year-old child in Mississippi diagnosed with HIV at birth and immediately put on antiretroviral therapy. Delete the scoop?
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Using a single web of spider silk to halt an oncoming subway train? No problem, say physicists, assuming you've got the right spider. -> Delete the scoop?
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Indian Botanists: Blue Fluorescent Emissions from Carnivorous Plant Attracts Prey: Indian Scientists
So far, the best-known attractants in carnivorous prey traps are nectar, colour and olfactory cues. Reporting a new prey capture mechanism in some species of carnivorous plants. They found the existence of distinct blue fluorescence emissions at the 'capture spots' of Nepenthes, Sarracenia, Drosera, Pinguicula, Dionaea muscipula and Utricularia stellaris at UV 366 nm. When the capture spot was masked by coating a non-fluorescent extract, the pray capture was drastically reduced. The study has been published as a short research paper in the current issue of 'Plant Biology'
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1438-8677.2012.00709.x/abstract Via Annals of Botany: Plant Science Research 
Annals of Botany: Plant Science Research's curator insight,
February 20, 3:27 AM
Carnivorous plants generally don't have traps that resemble flowers, presumably so they don't capture pollinators. I wonder if any insects captured here are pollinators? UV spots are part of many flowers, so do the spots on carnivorous plant parts differ from those on flowers? 
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February 21, 2:22 PM
Thanks for the scoop. Further study may reveal whether this is universal to all flowers or specific to carnivorous plants only.
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In the 1970s, an obscure scientist named Carl Woese (pronounced “woes”) was working on something apparently rather mundane: finding a way to classify bacteria.
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A macrophage interacts with Borrelia cells, wow! Delete the scoop?
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Over the past decade, you may have noticed more and more articles referring to "hominins" rather than "hominids." Just why are Homo sapiens and her ancestors now called hominins? Delete the scoop?
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