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Japanese researchers have managed to recently bring new hope to the millions of people worldwide suffering from tooth conditions such as cavities, when they succeeded in artificially conditioning mice into developing new teeth to replace the ones they'd lost. The method does not rely on implanting artificial pro... |
4 August 2009
19:41 GMT |
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Despite the fact that science has proven we descended from the same common ancestor as primates did millions of years ago, it's a known fact that most humans today have a remarkably similar DNA, a fact that until now raised questions as to how we failed to diversify among ourselves more. Some researchers have pr... |
8 July 2009
04:44 GMT |
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In a paper published in Monday's issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Polish researchers formally describe a find that they've made public informally since last November, namely the fact that they were successful in identifying the earthly remains of Nicolaus Copernic... |
8 July 2009
02:31 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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While this is obvious, birds and humans took a very different evolutionary path a few million years ago. But what's weird is that studying bird genetics can even now yield insight into our very own genetic traits. This is exactly what a group of researchers from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, the... |
4 May 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Experts from the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB) and the National Geographic Society have finally succeeded in breaking a 75-year-old enigma, which surrounded folktale artist, writer and footloose explorer Everett Ruess. The explorer, aged at about 20, disappeared in the 1930s, as he roamed the US Southwest o... |
4 May 2009
10:53 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study conducted by investigators at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, people react differently to stress, mostly on account of their genetic differences. Another important factor that generates varying responses to stressors (factors associated with stress) is the gender of a person. T... |
6 April 2009
11:01 GMT |
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The last Ice Age, when glaciers advanced through much of Europe, was not very kind to the Irish wildlife, as much of it was completely annihilated and never recovered. However, it seems that a brave little frog species managed to endure, and toughed out the extremely cold weather. At the same time, members of the sam... |
18 March 2009
04:20 GMT |
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In a bid to preserve well over 100,000 species of plants, researchers are currently mobilizing their efforts and are trying to bring as many types of plants to the Arctic Seed Vault (ASV), a “safe deposit box” of sorts, initiated by the Global Crop Diversity Trust. Reportedly, over the last few months res... |
16 February 2009
09:25 GMT |
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Genetic researchers have managed to come across a significant breakthrough in the field, after they identified a plant, namely the mouse-ear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), which contains in its DNA a sequence that is strikingly similar to that found in the genetic information of people suffering from serious diseases ... |
20 January 2009
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Following a recent British breakthrough screening procedure, resulting in a 29 year-old woman giving birth to a healthy young girl who was completely without the breast cancer-generating gene BRCA 1, dispute over the ethics and the implications of using this selective technique on a large scale has escalated, with pr... |
12 January 2009
02:39 GMT |
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Giant agriculture company Monsanto announced on Wednesday that its “drought-tolerant” corn was in the latest stage of development, and that it could become readily available for the international markets as early as next year. The announcement added that this was part of the corporation's bid to help... |
8 January 2009
03:30 GMT |
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Fusing cells together is crucial in analyzing the way their internal structure and DNA reprogram themselves after merger, and may hold the key to obtaining successful cellular hybrids between adult cells and stem cells. This can provide new stem cell treatments for conditions requiring such intervention. But technica... |
5 January 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Over the past few years, advancements in the field of genetics offered countless scientists, who would have otherwise had no funds for their work, the possibility of experimenting with increasingly cheaper materials, in the comfort of their own home, or garage. Now, the academic community is worried that so much free... |
29 December 2008
03:03 GMT |
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For centuries, researchers have been trying to understand exactly what it is that drives people's facial expressions in specific situations, such as a victory or a defeat in a sports game, or in an award ceremony. Most psychologists thus far believed that this behavior was learned through the power of habit, as ... |
29 December 2008
02:31 GMT |
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New scientific studies revealed the fact that men and women probably were not equal members of the largest African exodus, which is believed to be responsible for the colonization of the entire world. This massive migration accounts for all races that are currently spread outside Africa, and the mass movements began ... |
22 December 2008
03:10 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, the number one spot for this year's Top Scientific achievement is the discovering of cellular reprogramming techniques, which offer experts an invaluable tool in studying, understanding, and, potentially, curing such diseases as Parkinson's and diabetes. Sick cells can now be programmed into vi... |
19 December 2008
06:26 GMT |
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Identifying inherited disease in fetuses has been thus far a procedure that involved significant risk of miscarriage, due to the fact that the medical procedures required were invasive and implied driving a needle in the amniotic sack that surrounds the babies when they are still in the womb. Now, a team of researche... |
25 November 2008
15:01 GMT |
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For the first time in history, a massive study of human behavior in relation to their genetic heritage is underway. This massive survey will encompass about 10,000 American citizens over a period of about 20 years. The companies that joined forces for this giant task are trying to determine if people are willing to c... |
20 October 2008
06:50 GMT |
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Scientists discovered that many of the genetic diseases humans have came from early species in the evolutionary chain, approximately 400 million years ago. Bacteria are most responsible for afflictions such as diabetes and Huntington's disease, with more than 97 percent of our current susceptibilities to infecti... |
20 October 2008
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Andres, the older son of a Spanish family, has a rare hereditary disease called Beta Thalassaemia, which prevents his body from producing the required amount of red cells that carry oxygen. His little brother, who was born only three days ago, has been genetically adapted in order to provide him a cure.The family tha... |
15 October 2008
07:33 GMT |
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Tough one third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), only 5 to 10 percent of them will ever develop the disease in its active state. Why this happens remains a mystery to this day, but researchers think they may have had a b... |
10 October 2008
10:12 GMT |
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Giant tortoises still represent the living symbol of the Galápagos archipelago, even as four of the fifteen species have long since been exterminated by human activity in the region. However, one of them could be brought back to life based on genetic techniques applied to museum-preserved specimens. When... |
24 September 2008
09:19 GMT |
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Genetics and medicine researchers were always surprised to find that our immune system in the gut, while able to fight off bacterial infections, simultaneously remained tolerant towards the friendly resident bacteria. But a recent study reveals that the newly-discovered “pims” gene gets activated by the g... |
20 September 2008
05:29 GMT |
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Scientists from the Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah found a connection between some genes, which may lead to a healthier and longer life. Based on tests developed on some worms that have identical genetic designs as we do, researchers found that a gene associated with aging and another one l... |
19 September 2008
09:47 GMT |
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Scientists were given green light by the Australian government, in order to obtain embryonic stem cells out of cloned human embryos. The license and 7.200 human eggs were granted to Sydney IVF, an in vitro fertilization company. Previously, the practice had been banned, but the ban was lifted in December 2006 by... |
19 September 2008
07:14 GMT |
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Human cloning, although highly unofficial, is possible, and there are thousands of uses for it, from the medical organ donation to science and art. We've all wondered how a classical composer such as Mozart or Bach would fare in the modern world, and many would like to listen to more songs from Freddie Mercury. ... |
17 September 2008
08:30 GMT |
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A new study shows that people with mothers having Alzheimer's may themselves be predisposed to the disease, suggesting that the condition could be related to an unbalance in the way the brain handles sugar, which is most likely genetically inherited. "Overall, these findings show that their brains are not workin... |
31 July 2008
04:26 GMT |
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A new link between genetics and autism was established in the outcome of a study showing that the parents of autistic children are likely to behave similarly to their young ones when it comes to evaluating people's facial expressions, although they do not have the disorder themselves.By conducting psychological ... |
18 July 2008
04:17 GMT |
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The long debate over a complexly colored fossilized feather belonging to a species of bird that flew in the Earth's skies some 100 million years ago has been settled recently by scientists after they revealed that the coloring patterns were of biological origin, and might contain clues to some of the hues displa... |
9 July 2008
04:38 GMT |
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The photograph featured here presents a one-year old deer born in captivity at the research center park in the Tuscan town of Prato, near Florence, Italy, which has a single horn placed towards the center of its head, similar to the unicorns fabled in popular myths. The photograph was released yesterday by Gilberto T... |
12 June 2008
04:26 GMT |
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