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At the Duke University Center scientist watched as a juvenile songbird’s brain,under a laser powered microscope, started to learn a song right after he heard an adult tutors’ song for the first time. Scientist ultimately wanted to see what would happen between the connections from the nerve cells to when the motor in the brain commands it to sing the [...]

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As we all know mosquitoes are one of  the insects that cause Malaria. However they have the ability to not be affected by Malaria. Scientist have been studying how they are able to do this. They have recently made a breakthrough in this study. They have done this by studying and analyzing the genes in [...]

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An inexpensive, fast, DNA test that shows if a person is at risk of developing a certain diseases is soon becoming a reality,  thanks to technology developed at the University of Edinburgh. Scientists have found a way to pinpoint a persons genetic code on certain places on the DNA change.  A way they could do this is to collect [...]

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Monkey populations are far more sensitive to damage in there habitat than thought before. The health of monkeys is closely related to the types of habitat found between forest fragments. The impact of external factors such as human activity can affect forest as big as 40 square kilometers. The decline in population can be stopped by taking [...]

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