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Residues Go Merrily Down the Stream in Portland

If you thought that life is a dream as you row merrily down the Portland streams, think again. Scientists delved into the streams around Portland as part of the national effort to narrow down on the main pollutants and its source in the water systems. This exercise by scientists found resi...

Blunder Leaves Smoking Ban Up in Smoke in Stoke

... Smokers can merrily puff away without fear of prosecution in one English city's pubs because officials failed to introduce powers to impose a national ban, the local coun...

Cancer Cells Trigger Supporting Cells to Turn Cancerous

...n to proliferate rapidly. Eventually these fibroblasts lost the protective action of the tumor suppressor, p53. This meant that the cells continued to merrily divide thereby evolving as cancer cells. "This occurred in 100 percent of the animals studied. It's a strong selective pressure," said Dr. Terry Van D...

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Unique gene regulation gives chilly bugs survival advantage at bottom of the world

...f other proteins, Denlinger said. "The production of stress proteins usually brings development to a halt," he said. "But in this case, the larvae merrily go about their business of feeding and growing while producing their stress proteins." The Antarctic midge is barely bigger than a grain of rice, ...