Sue Wu submitted, created time 8 months 4 weeks (www.sciam.com)

New research indicates that an alginate-based biomaterial injected into heart attack victims may stave off further damage.

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jane2007 submitted, created time 1 year 2 weeks (www.nature.com)

As the year of Carl Linnaeus's 300th birthday draws to a close, researchers in Northern Ireland have for the first time sequenced the DNA of a specimen gathered by the "father of taxonomy" himself — and used it to solve an algal enigma. Sequencing one of Carl Linnaeus's seaweeds shows modern samples aren't what we thought.

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