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The Nobel Prize for chemistry is shared this year by three
US-based scientists, one of them Japanese and two American, each of whom had a
contributing part in the discovery and application of GFP – green fluorescent
protein – which may be used to better observe and study certain cells.
The protein found in certain jellyfish is bioluminescent, it
glows. But the main difference between GFP and others like luciferase, which is
found in Fireflies, is that unlike the latter, the GFP’s ability to glow is not
dependent on a specific chemical that gets used up in the process.
When a cell...
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With the presidential
campaigns nearing the end and the elections on November 4,
2008 approaching,
both candidates for president of the United States have come to play their last
card: the reformation of the U.S. health care system.
While
Democrat Barack Obama aims at convincing more people to sign up for employer-based
health care, his counter-candidate John McCain has his mind and his plan set on
doing the exact opposite, by trying to make people switch from employer-based
health care to individual health-care plans. His project seeks to replace the
government’s subvention for...
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The U.S. Presidential candidates have not given up on the fight, and neither have their respective chosen Vice Presidents, Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden. Their performances on the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates have been fierce and have shown the American citizens how committed the candidates are on winning the elections and improving the American system. Obama’s campaign has been one of the most powerful and convincing in the U.S. history and it is quite surprising how many white Americans support the African-American candidate. At least it was very surprising to...
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London - Two doctors went on trial in Britain Thursday over failed car bomb attacks on a London nightclub and Glasgow airport last year which the prosecution said were aimed at "committing murder on an indiscriminate and a wholesale scale."
Bilal Abdulla, a 29-year-old Iraqi doctor, and Jordanian neurologist Mohammed Asha, 27, were members of an Islamic terrorist cell who wanted to "kill the innocent and seize public attention around the world," prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw told Woolwich Crown Court in London.
The two men deny plotting a terrorist campaign.
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Washington - China's decision to reduce contacts with the United States over weapons sales to Taiwan is "unfortunate", the US State Department said Tuesday, while pledging to continue working with Beijing.
"It's an unfortunate decision that the Chinese have taken," deputy spokesman Robert Wood said.
China strongly opposed the plans announced last week to sell 6.4 billion dollars in arms to Taiwan, and said US-Chinese military relations would be "poisoned" over the deal.
"The United States ignored the opposition of China to sell military arms...
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On Saturday thousand of activists protested in Kuala
Lumpur demanding electoral reforms. Police...
Hundreds of people work hard to save wildlife and halt the spread of a large oil spill in the San...
On Sunday United Nations human rights envoy, Paulo Sergio
Pinheiro arrived in Myanmar for the...
According to NATO officials six American soldiers and three
Afghan soldiers were killed by Taliban...
On Friday night a clash broke out between the Islamic Army,
a Sunni Arab nationalist group and Al...
On Friday Myanmar’s
pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi met with leaders of her party, for the first...
On Saturday Pakistani government allowed former Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto to leave her home...
The North Korean authorities have provided evidence in order
to show that Pyongyang never intended...
A NATO patrol was ambushed by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan.
The crossfire ended with the...
A freight train hauling coal derailed on Friday in Washington as the bridge
under it collapsed....
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