11.30.10
University of California scientists are using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) to analyse retail pomegranate juice and determine just how much of the fruit is actually contained in each carton.
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11.22.10
In order to divide asymmetrically, the vegetal blastomeres at the 8-cell stage must position their mitotic spindles near their vegetal ends, so that the division results in a macromere and a micromere. The image shows the microtubules of the mitotic spindle at the 4th cleavage, shows how asymmetric this division is.
Credit: George von Dassow, Center for Cell Dynamics, University of Washington.
Source: The Hardin Lab, University of Wisconsin
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11.12.10
just found Jeffrey Sachs will be giving a speech tomorrow morning at Carleton..
11.12.10
Flying cars! Jet packs! Lasers that zap malaria-carrying mosquitoes! Here are the year’s biggest (and coolest) breakthroughs in science, technology and the arts
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