For their research, published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, researchers led by Alexis Edwards of Virginia Commonwealth University studied more than 7, 000 fraternal and identical twins.

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In an effort to answer this question, a cluster of Aga Khan Foundation-supported child-to-child experimental projects in India where studied by three Indian research institutes.

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Iowa State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Ames Laboratory, in partnership with a network of universities and industrial partners, will be initiating a series of workshops called "Mapping the Materials Genome" focused on identifying the critical research challenges and establishing the experimental and computational techniques by which the "Materials Genome" can in fact be realized.

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The so-called zombie worms break down bone by excreting acid, according to research just presented at the Society for Experimental Biology's meeting in Salzburg, Austria.

MSN: Zombie worm has no mouth �� but it feasts on whale bones