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Research provides new kidney cancer clues

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Grand Rapids, Mich. (January 19, 2011) — In a collaborative project involving scientists from three continents, researchers have identified a gene that is mutated in one in three patients with the most common form of renal cancer. The gene — cal…

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New method will triple amount of genetic information from newborn blood spot screenings

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Grand Rapids, Mich. (January 12, 2011) — Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have developed a method that can yield more information from archived newborn blood that has implications for a vast array of research, including population…

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Spray could help raise drought resistant crops

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Plant scientists move closer to making any crop drought-tolerant

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Drought-tolerant crops have moved closer to becoming reality.
A collaborative team of scientists has made a significant advance on the discovery last year by the University of California, Riverside’s Sean Cutler of pyrabactin…

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Growing drought-tolerant crops inching forward

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A collaborative team of scientists led by researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, has used the tools of structural biology to understand how a synthetic chemical mimics abscisic acid (ABA), a key stress hormone that helps plan…

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