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• Protected areas provide African birds with stepping stones to survival
• Evolution of an outbreak: Complications from contaminated steroid injections
• Unexpected behavior of well-known catalysts
• Less is more: Novel cellulose structure requires fewer enzymes to process biomass to fuel
• UTSA student wins American Heart Association fellowship for nanosystems engineering research
• Researchers explain how neural stem cells create new and varied neurons
• Biological fitness trumps other traits in mating game
• New microfluidic chip can help identify unwanted particles in water and food
• Forest Service study finds urban trees removing fine particulate air pollution, saving lives
• A new model -- and possible treatment -- for staph bone infections
• PETA International Science Consortium disappointed in denial of Dow appeal
• Study shows probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri NCIMB 30242 significantly increased vitamin D levels
• UMass Amherst researchers develop powerful new technique to study protein function
• 'Waterlust' whets appetite of Florida outdoor writers
• Scientists awarded $1.4 million to develop new therapeutic approaches to chronic leukemia
• Genetics of cervical cancer raise concern about antiviral therapy in some cases
• Scientists date prehistoric bacterial invasion still present in today's cells
• Expressly unfit for the laboratory
• NCAR joins massive field campaign to examine summertime air in Southeast
• Sequentially expressed genes in neural progenitors create neural diversity, NYU biologists find
• Brain re-training may improve memory, focus in schizophrenia
• HIV-derived antibacterial shows promise against drug-resistant bacteria
• Scientists use DNA from a museum specimen to study rarely observed type of killer whale
• Renewed hope in a once-abandoned cancer drug class
• Are we pushing animals over the edge?

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