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Scientists have finally managed to decipher the genome of maize, one of the most important plants in the world in terms of production and importance. Details of the high-quality sequence appear as a cover story in the November 20 issue of the top journal Science. The analysis also reveals the order in which the genes... |
20 November 2009
01:02 GMT |
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For the first time ever, this spring saw the presentation of a scientific achievement that had the power to change the way we looked at diseases and attempted to find cures for them, for ever. Japanese researchers at the Central Institute for Experimental Animals, in Kawasaki, managed to obtain marmosets (a species o... |
21 October 2009
03:07 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have recently managed another breakthrough that could lead to major changes in the fields of biology and medicine. They have succeeded in imaging one of the most important protein complexes in the human body, a struct... |
14 October 2009
06:40 GMT |
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Ever since induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) were demonstrated in 2006, it has been a goal of the scientific community to find a method of producing them that is also simple, effective and cheap. Now, investigators believe they may have made considerable headway in this direction. In five studies published in the ... |
10 August 2009
08:51 GMT |
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Scientists at the prestigious Swedish medical university the Karolinska Institutet have recently made an astounding find related the phenomenon of premature aging, which has thus far eluded plausible explanations. The experts managed to trace the origins of this condition to proteins that malfunction when they are sy... |
6 August 2009
10:30 GMT |
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Spanish experts from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), working together with colleagues from the University of Cambridge (UC), have managed to discover the genetic circuit that in essence controls the behavior of stem cells and determines traits such as differentiation and pluripotency. UPC School of I... |
20 July 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Despite the fact that it holds the greatest promises for serious advancements, the field of regenerative medicine is currently one of the areas of science where little public support is recorded. Religious factions and ultraconservative groups with decisional power unjustly oppose this line of research, which could p... |
18 June 2009
08:42 GMT |
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In its nearly 200 years of existence, Charles Darwin's theory on genetics, which states that parents pass on to their offspring the genes that best equip future generations for survival, has never been scientifically proven until now. Experts at the University of Leeds have recently been able to confirm one of t... |
15 June 2009
10:58 GMT |
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A new scientific study of the circadian rhythm, the pace inside the human brain that governs our daily sleep-wake routine, seems to indicate that we are hardwired to follow an eight-hour working schedule. A number of genes in our bodies is controlled by this rhythm, and some of them are only activated once a day, at ... |
28 April 2009
06:30 GMT |
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At the 237th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) yesterday, scientists have unveiled a new DNA model, one that breaks from the average Darwinian approach. While the regular human DNA molecule has four chemical letters, which combine in pairs of two, the new synthetic molecule has 12, which means t... |
24 March 2009
06:25 GMT |
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Fancy making a dinosaur from a chicken! IT may sound far-fetched, but it's actually not, as evidenced by the fact that leading paleontologists around the globe are currently teaming up to create a creature literally unlike anything the world has ever seen. They are going to come up with a chicken-dinosaur hybrid... |
6 March 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Two teams of researchers from the UK and Canada have discovered a new way of obtaining stem cells from nothing more than regular skin cells, and a few genes, which they manipulate so as to trigger the desired change in the cells. After the process, the obtained structural units behave exactly like embryonic stem ones... |
2 March 2009
14:01 GMT |
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As opposed to sharks, for example, mammals usually grow their teeth in single rows, one in the upper part of the mouth, and the other directly beneath. This allows them to bite and rip apart meat or other harder foods. But geneticists and other researchers have wondered for a long time about what tells the human body... |
27 February 2009
06:23 GMT |
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Researchers in the UK have managed to discover that the condition know as synaesthesia, which makes sufferers experience a cross-over of perceptions in the presence of a single stimulus, is triggered by genetic factors. Furthermore, they have been able to also identify the general portion of DNA that is responsible f... |
6 February 2009
09:46 GMT |
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Scientists from the Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere at the Kyoto University in Japan have managed to identify the main gene responsible for carrying nicotine produced in the roots of the tobacco plants to its leaves. The team says that a new variety of the plant could be synthesized, one that would no... |
22 January 2009
12:11 GMT |
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A British 27-year old woman gave birth to a perfectly-health baby girl, her doctors announced on Friday. The new mother, who wishes to remain anonymous, decided to have the screening because many of her husband's female relatives had developed breast cancer at some point in their lives, and she deemed the risk o... |
9 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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In a premiere report, scientists at Penn State University (PSU), in the United States, announced that they were successful in deciphering the full genome sequence of a woolly mammoth, which was buried in the permafrost some 20,000 years ago. The experts used DNA samples harvested from strands of hair, as they are mor... |
20 November 2008
05:54 GMT |
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Scientists discovered that several protein chains inside the human body have the ability to condition their own evolution, which seems to hold the key to understanding how living organisms adapt to natural selection. This find could explain how people evolved to the point where they took over the planet and became th... |
12 November 2008
06:59 GMT |
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Genetics managed a breakthrough in tissue engineering, when a German team of scientists, led by Ralf Sodian, MD, cardiac surgeon at University Hospital of Munich, announced that stem cells from the blood flowing through the umbilical cord could be used to create artificial heart valves for infants born with malfuncti... |
11 November 2008
10:06 GMT |
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Another genetics theory, the one that states the fact that genes can only be passed down from generation to generation (vertically) and not from individuals to unrelated individuals (horizontally), is about to become obsolete, as new research, covering the genome of some 26 different species, shows that some portions... |
21 October 2008
09:42 GMT |
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