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In a trial that could set a questionable precedent, an Italian court reduced the sentence it gave to a convicted killer, after taking into account behavioral genetics. That is to say, the judges kept in mind the fact that the individual had a number of genes that have been associated with violent behavior, and decide... |
1 November 2009
07:01 GMT |
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As most of you know, unfurling the genetic material enclosed in each of our cells would result in a six-foot-long strand of DNA. However, inside each cell, all this information remains stored within nuclei that are less than three micrometers in diameter, less than the width of a human hair. Finding out precisely how... |
9 October 2009
01:56 GMT |
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Particular DNA segments can be found in various amounts from one person to another, even if they are in the same line, as in family. These variations play an important part in our evolution. They can hold the key to boosts of the immune system and to developing resistance to certain diseases, but can also make it a l... |
31 August 2009
04:44 GMT |
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Experts from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have recently managed to overcome a major obstacle in human embryonic stem cell (ESC) and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell research, when they devised a new method of introducing or modifying genes inside them. While this has been relatively easy to do i... |
16 August 2009
13:41 GMT |
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The human genome carries within it all the necessary information for everything that goes on in the human body, for generating proteins, neurotransmitters, and all sorts of other chemicals. But it is constantly under attack from outside factors, such as UV radiation from sunlight and harmful additives in our daily fo... |
14 August 2009
18:41 GMT |
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The sea lamprey is one of the weirdest fish in the oceans, and is a direct descendant of animals that lived millions of years ago. This earned it the classification of “living fossil,” because it also looks very strange, as if from a different time. Now, researchers have discovered that there's more ... |
23 June 2009
02:27 GMT |
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Researchers from the United States have managed to surpass one of the most difficult obstacles that has stood in the way of creating the first artificial life form, when they have successfully created a ribosome, a part of the cell that is often referred to as its “factory.” It's the place where the ... |
9 March 2009
17:31 GMT |
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The platypus is by far the strangest mammal, with its bird-like bill and reptile traits. Its genetics seems to be equally strange, as revealed by a new research published in the Nature journal and carried out by Prof Chris Ponting's team at the Medical Research Council Functional Genomics Unit in Oxford, the Eur... |
8 May 2008
04:24 GMT |
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A new research published in Current Biology comes to confirm the role zoos, farms and private collections could have in saving menaced species: it seems that up to 50% of the captive tigers could be "purebred" members of an endangered subspecies. This finding may boost the number of animals to be involved in breeding... |
21 April 2008
03:42 GMT |
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In a world of intense migration and immigration, who can tell where his/her roots are? In fact, countries like US, Canada and Australia are mainly made of more or less recent immigrants. This is more than a question of identity. Various human populations display different genetic predispositions to diseases. Our phys... |
15 April 2008
04:35 GMT |
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The difference between Danny DeVito and Dolph Lundgren is given only by genes. So far, only two of these genes have been known. But three recent researches published in the journal "Nature Genetics" have augmented our knowledge on the issue, discovering dozens of new genes involved in this. Height is a genetic trait,... |
9 April 2008
02:50 GMT |
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The human body functions based on the activity of about 35,000 genes, comprised in 3 billion DNA bases. And even the bacteria needs hundreds of genes to cope with their metabolic functions. But there must be an extreme of functioning genes into an organism at which life is possible. German researchers discovered in 2... |
13 December 2007
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This is one of the greatest discoveries since the emergence of genetics: the first individual human genome ever sequenced, a complete personal DNA blueprint. The famous researcher Craig Venter has found a much higher genetic variation among humans than scientists had previously believed. "The 2.8 billion contiguous ... |
4 September 2007
04:47 GMT |
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Corals may be simple little sea creatures that form magnificent reefs in the tropical waters, but scientists were shocked to discover more genes in them than in humans! ... Moreover, even if they are at the base of animal evolution, corals share with people a lot of the immune system genes, and as corals are much ol... |
2 May 2007
05:56 GMT |
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The scientific world is shocked by the world's only known case of "semi-identical" twins. Signaled by journals Nature and Human Genetics, this American case (whose exact location has not been revealed) is of a twin pair identical on their mother's side, but sharing only half their genes on their father'... |
27 March 2007
07:02 GMT |
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