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Bobbing birds do it for a reason

...puter-video techniques. The cranes search both for mobile prey (frogs and insects) and for items such as acorns, seeds, and tubers. The research team found that the time devoted to holding the head still decreased with walking speed; at a very slow pace, the head was still most of the time, but when the bir...

Study reveals candidate targets for anti-retroviral therapeutics

...y issue of Genome Research. Many organisms harbor mobile genetic elements that are non-pathogenic molecular...relatives of retroviruses. In budding yeast, these mobile elements (called Ty ?or transposable yeast ?elements) encode proteins that are homologs of retrovira...

Insight into DNA's 'weakest links' may yield clues to cancer biology

...nsposons" called Ty elements. Retrotransposons are mobile gene segments that duplicate themselves and insert the new copies back into other sites in the genome. The most common breakpoint involved two Ty elements in an inverted, head-to-head orientation, they reported. That finding led the researchers to s...

Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola update

...dmission. For affected communities, staff from the mobile teams, fully suited in protective gear, are seen a...itudes are improving, though hostility towards the mobile teams remains of concern in one area known to have recent cases and deaths. Efforts to sensitize aff...

Marburg virus disease in Angola - update

...ional Microbiology Laboratory will be setting up a mobile laboratory in Uige and CDC will be providing laboratory support in Luanda. UNICEF is carrying out social mobilization activities, raising awareness of the disease in the community and also providing additional logistic support and equipment. Two tra...

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