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Microbiology and Industry in Petroleum Fuels For project 1 you will do your background research. Specifically, you will choose a suitable topic, identify appropriate resources, and generate a brief outline of the article which you will write for Project 2. Your topic must fall under the following subheadings: Microbiology and […]

NASA scientists have brought back from Mars a molecule they think is similar to DNA. Just like DNA, it is transcribed into a mRNA-like molecule. Unlike mRNA on Earth, though, it appears to use only three bases (A, C and T). Assuming that proteins were still made from this mRNA […]

Human populations originally descended from Africa. From there, several expansions into new habitats and environments resulted in cultural and genetic adaptation. One of these adaptations involved the low-oxygen habitats that occur at high altitude. Residents of the Tibetan Plateau live above 4000m with oxygen concentrations that are nearly half of […]

Researchers recently investigated whether or not coffee prevented the development of high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) in laboratory mice. The mice used in this experiment have a mutation that makes them become diabetic. Read about this research study in this article published on the Science Daily web-site New Evidence That Drinking […]