| | Keats' telescope: August 2005 |
 | | The most prevalent theory has been that accumulation of a protein fragment called "A-beta," which is toxic to neurons, starts a vicious cycle of neuronal death and inflammation. |
| | A paper to appear in Applied and Environmental Microbiology uses a DNA amplification strategy to identify the metagenomic composition and structure of the microbial community of modern stromatolites. |
| | The biggest suprise from this effort was that cyanobacteria sequences were recovered less than 5% of the time, and instead proteobacteria (formerly, purple bacteria) sequences were about 1/3 of the whole take. |
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