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Cold seeps are hot spots for life

Thousands of white crabs grazing on an extensive mussel bed: Up to now such high biomasses in the deep sea were only known from hot vents. Now scientists from…

A Novel Finding In How Chikungunya Virus Has Spread To New Vectors And Locations

The study, published December 7 in PLoS Pathogens, explains how the virus has increased its ability to infect and be transmitted by the Asian tiger mosquito,…

Intracellular transport New portals of entry into cells for pathogenic agents and for medicinal products

Surprisingly, the membrane invaginates through a spontaneous and autonomous movement and swallows pathogens. This mechanism has been demonstrated in cells, and…

The sea louse, a common parasite of wild fish

The parasite is found in large numbers in the lumpfish, which is now considered to be one of the primary hosts of the parasite. The lumpfish in turn infects…

New research discredits a US$100 billion 'fix' to global warming

Research performed at Stanford and Oregon State Universities, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, suggests that ocean fertilization may not be an…

DFG To Establish Ten New Collaborative Research Centres

On 1 January 2008 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) will establish ten new Collaborative Research Centres, which will…

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