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The results of a new genetic analysis show that people living outside of Africa all carry genetic materials from Neanderthals, the species of hominids Homo sapiens had to compete with in order to ensure dominance all over the world. This fight raged between 40,000 and 30,000 years ago, although no one can say for sur... |
18 July 2011
10:59 GMT |
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently announced that it awarded an additional 32 new research grants to plant-genome research, totaling no less than $101.6 million. This year was the 12th of the Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP), and the federal agency awarded research money ranging from $500,000 t... |
21 October 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Viruses have been used to modify the traits of various genes for some time now, mostly because of the fact that they have the capacity to rewrite entire portions of the DNA strand of the host, basically triggering the expression of genes that would otherwise remain dormant. Thus far, a cocktail of four viruses was us... |
16 December 2008
03:02 GMT |
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Heart failure, also known as congenital heart failure, is a medical condition that affects more than 23 million people worldwide today and claims the lives of 600,000 yearly. Finding a cure for this widespread disease has been a top goal for medical researchers since inventions in technology allowed for a better unde... |
1 December 2008
08:49 GMT |
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The results of a four-year-long study show that children of centenarians are far less likely to develop diabetes or heart conditions than their peers. And we use children metaphorically, as the test subjects for the study were, on average, 72-year-old when they signed up. The team behind the new discovery, made up of... |
22 November 2008
05:29 GMT |
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Cancer researches are time-consuming processes that require a lot of patience, even if time is the only thing patients don't have. Identifying cancer-suppressing genes can further studies on all cancer types considerably, but methods and research are often limited to mutating a certain gene in mouse models, and ... |
19 November 2008
06:49 GMT |
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The serious situation of bees in the UK has recently prompted British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) members to demand some $8 million in government funding, to avert the ever-increasing incidence of the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which threatens all bees in the country. Francis Ratnieks, a scientists and the onl... |
10 November 2008
04:16 GMT |
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Biologists conducting studies on the behavior of social animals found that gene expressions change depending on the situation, so as to modify the overall behavior of the animal. This connection was hinted at in previous studies, dating as back as 1992, and genetics say it's no surprise that genes are influenced... |
7 November 2008
05:23 GMT |
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Japanese cloning experts announced on Tuesday that they were successful in cloning a mouse that has been dead for 15 years, and that the new animal turned out fine. It was even able to reproduce with another female rat, which gave researchers a field day, seeing how this step in science could bring forth a cloning "r... |
4 November 2008
09:00 GMT |
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The area of genetics covering the alternate roles that various genes play in different cells and tissues has received too little attention over the years, partially because this phenomenon seemed exotic in nature and was not believed to be a regular occurrence. But now, MIT scientists found that alternative spicing i... |
3 November 2008
08:21 GMT |
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Some of the most complicated diseases in the world today, such as depression and cancer, as well as some mental illnesses, are not the result of a single gene going "yahoo" inside the sufferer's body, but of a complex of genes malfunctioning, stimulating or inhibiting less than they normally have to. New Jersey ... |
29 October 2008
06:01 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that moles live under ground and feed on insects, and, as a result of the adaptation to their environment, their eyes became dispersible, shows a new survey. Some mole species rarely come out and hunt on the surface, so it's obvious that they couldn't use their eyes for any reason... |
21 October 2008
04:21 GMT |
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