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Hearts of male and female rainbow trout are different

... Uniform ventricle strips or transverse rings were cut from 10-12 month old, hatchery raised, sexually-immature male and female rainbow trout. Each strip was prepared in one of two ways: (1) incubated without stimulation (i.e., ventricle strips were incubated in a respiration cell containing an oxygenate...

Experts predict Tamiflu could halve the pandemic influenza death toll versus no intervention

...cient to cover 65% of a country’s population could cut deaths by approximately half. This study was announced at the leading influenza conference, Options for the Control of Influenza VI, in Toronto.1 The reality is that country stockpiles of Tamiflu are limited and are targeted at treatment only rathe...

CT scan reveals ancient long-necked gliding reptile

... scanned. Because the researchers did not want to cut up the sheet of rock in which the fossilized glider was embedded, they gave up total resolution of all of the bones. Because this fossil has been identified and named from CT scan, one benefit is that the bones themselves have not been destroyed o...

Now, self-healing materials can mimic human skin, healing again and again

...l circulatory systems. “In the same manner that a cut in the skin triggers blood flow to promote healing, a crack in these new materials will trigger the flow of healing agent to repair the damage,” said Nancy Sottos, a Willett Professor of materials science and engineering, and the corresponding author...

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