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DNA find reveals new insights into the history of cattle in Europe

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Metacarpus of a small and compact adult bovid found in Twann after sampling for genetic analysis. Credit: Illustration: University of Basel, Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological...
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Isotopes in prehistoric cattle teeth suggest herding strategies used during the Neolithic

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Cattle mobility patterns at the Neolithic wetland site of Arbon Bleiche 3. Settlement plan with reconstructed houses and distribution of cattle mobility patterns (MP)...
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Biologists delay the aging process by ‘remote control’

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Activating a gene called AMPK in the nervous system induces the anti-aging cellular recycling process of autophagy in both the brain and intestine. Activating...
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Cancer drug makes fruit flies live longer

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100 day old female fruit fly. Credit: Dr Nazif Alic, UCL Adult fruit flies given a cancer drug live 12% longer than average, according to a...
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Understanding aging: Stem cell dysfunction links cancer and aging

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Wholemount immunostaining for a Keratin-15-GFP transgenic reporter (green) on mouse tail epidermis labels a population of stem cells that undergoes age-associated changes. Co-stained with...
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Key events early in process of cellular aging defined

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Yeast cells, outlined in blue, each contain one vacuole, outlined in red. The acidity of the vacuole is indicated by the green dye: lower...
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Research explains action of drug that may slow aging, related disease

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This study suggests that a combination of rapamycin and another drug to offset that increase in insulin resistance might provide the benefits of this...
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Replication of colored 3-D models simplified

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Color details and structures of the replica match precisely the template. Credit: Christian Schüller / Copyright ETH Zurich The new method is a clever combination of...
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Digital photography: The future of small-scale manufacturing?

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Pictures, similar to this, were taken of the object from all angles to encompass the entire object and create an accurate model. Many aspects...
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New 3-D technique uses water and robotics to reconstruct complex objects

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3-D scanning using a dip scanner: The object is dipped in a bath of water (left) by a robot arm. The quality of the...
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Strange electrons break the crystal symmetry of high-temperature superconductors

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Brookhaven Lab scientists (from left) Ivan Bozovic, Xi He, Jie Wu, and Anthony Bollinger with the atomic layer-by-layer molecular beam epitaxy system used to...