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...r for the diagnosis ofcancer." The researchers now plan to carefully study tumors one by one to developdatabases and try todetermine each cancer's unique pteridine signatures. Ma cautions that thecurrent paper is apreliminary study, adding that while "more data are needed to reach a more solidconclusion ...Jumpin' Jordan! Athletic Gene Yields Biological Clues
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.... The rules, part of a sweeping management plan for Atlantic and GulfCoast fisheries signed into l... WCS also determined that the federal management plan enacted in 1996failed to adequately protect sharks. Last June, after approaching NMFS with t...Sandia, University Of Montana Researchers Try Training Bees To Find Buried Landmines
...g Bromenshenk and a team of colleagues andstudents plan to come to work at Sandia. New colonies ofhoneybees will be introduced at the test minefield. The Montana team will use highly instrumented "honeybeecondos," which automatically count the number of times beesfly in and out of the hive, to track the b...K-State Researchers Study Pest Resistance Management
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