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Human, mouse shared common ancestor 75 million years ago Aircraft maintenance: anticipate and manage Claudia V. Koreas Hughes, a Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) Research leader at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright Patterson, Ohio, U.S. who was here at the NDE-2002 conference took the ... Super computing and drug discovery ONGOING PHASE III trials conducted by Bio Numerik, Texas (a pharmaceutical firm involved in rigorous cancer research) is experimenting with administration of higher dosage of chemotherapy without the side effects. Another research project at ... TIP-5, PART-A Earthquake resistant design, construction EARTHQUAKE CAUSES shaking of the ground. So a building resting on it will experience motion at its base. From Newton's First Law of Motion, even though the base of the building moves with the ground, the roof has a tendency to stay in its ... Photosynthesis analysis PHOTOSYNTHESIS IS a chemical process that transforms sunlight into chemical energy. Biochemists now understand that this critical biological process depends on elaborate and rapid chemistry involving a series of large and complex molecules. ... Testing chlamydomonas' response to environmental stresses Complete genome of the plant's chloroplast has been sequenced and this has made it possible to test response of Chlamydomonas to environmental stresses. Jumping genes and species evolution LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS led by Johns Hopkins scientists have revealed that so-called `jumping genes' create dramatic rearrangement in the human genome when they move from chromosome to chromosome. If the finding holds true in living organisms, it ...
Animal experimentation — what is the bottom line?IN KEEPING with the spirit of informed debate, The Hindu has done well in making these columns available for readers to express their views on the use of laboratory animals in biological research (see my article of 21-11-02 and those by Ms ...
Nature's gift to produce good humusSCIENTISTS AT the International Crops Research for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) have conducted a series of field trials with vermi composting and have found that it was an efficient, eco-friendly and economic means to restore the soil health ...
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