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A group of American investigators announces the discovery of the first batch of solid evidences indicating that the process of methylation – and the adjacent gene sequences – have co-evolved in humans and chimpanzees. The species separated from a common ancestor some 6 million years ago.
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19 September 2011
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Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh made a major breakthrough, that could prevent future bird flu epidemics – they created genetically modified chickens that if infected with the avian influenza virus, do not transmit it to other chickens with which they are in contact.This genetic modi... |
14 January 2011
05:12 GMT |
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British and American researchers found a new clue that explains the way that cancers appear sometimes, without any warning.Most cancers evolve by following certain steps – cells become premalignant, then abnormally large before turning into cancerous cells, and if early detected, treatments can prove effective,... |
7 January 2011
04:20 GMT |
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We've all been taught in school that genes alone are responsible for our traits, but a new study carried out by Yale University researchers concluded that there is another mechanism that controls traits variations even in genetically identical individuals.Ten years ago, scientists discovered that a striking perc... |
28 December 2010
08:26 GMT |
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An international group of researchers has sequenced and decoded the genome of the woodland strawberry, opening the way to new breeding possibilities within the berries family.The woodland strawberry, also known as Fragaria vesca, looks like the cultivated strawberry, but from a genetic point of view is much simpler, ... |
27 December 2010
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Genetic analysis was used for the first time to prove that the African savannah elephant and the smaller African forest elephant belong to two different species, and have been separated for several million years.The research involved scientists from Harvard Medical School, the University of Illinois, and the Universi... |
22 December 2010
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An international team of researchers identified the genetic switch that sets up a baby's gender, and that is also linked to so-called 'intersex' families.Harry Ostrer, MD, director of the Human Genetics Program at NYU Langone Medical Center, led the team that found this gene, which is actually very imp... |
3 December 2010
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Besides what everybody knows that obesity is related to bad food habits and sedentary lifestyle, it appears that the common childhood obesity is linked to several genetic variations, a new research suggests.Dr. Struan Grant from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and his colleagues carried out a genetic ana... |
15 October 2010
06:47 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the Indiana University has just been awarded a five-year grant to study how environmental factors cause changes in our genetic material, via mutations and natural selection.The grant was awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and will amount to $2.27 m... |
6 October 2010
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A new study concluded that ADHD is a genetic disorder after scientists discovered that children who suffer from it, have more small segments of their DNA duplicated or missing, compared with other children.The study carried by scientists at Cardiff University, also found that between these segments there was a seriou... |
30 September 2010
09:28 GMT |
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Virus fragments from the family of the modern Hepatitis B virus, locked inside the genomes of songbirds such as the modern-day zebra finch, were discovered by biologists from The University of Texas at Arlington.This is actually the first time that endogenous hepadnaviruses have been found in any organism whatsoever.... |
29 September 2010
08:46 GMT |
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An international team led by Claire Lanaud of CIRAD, France, and Mark Guiltinan of Penn State, sequenced and analyzed the genome for the Criollo variety of the cacao tree, considered to be the source of the finest chocolate in the world.The team which also included scientists from 18 other institutions, not only sect... |
17 September 2010
10:59 GMT |
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Scientists managed to trick honey bees into thinking they had traveled long distances to find food, and found out that this altered gene expression in their brains.The study used optical illusion to alter bees' perception of the flown distance, through same-length tunnels, as they discovered that vertical stripe... |
20 August 2010
10:19 GMT |
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Mitochondrial Eve (mtEve), the mother of all humans, lived about 200,000 years ago according to Rice statisticians' new found method, that could actually be the most complete statistical study of our species' genetic link with our maternal ancestor that was ever made.The research was based on a comparison b... |
18 August 2010
04:15 GMT |
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In a new series of experiments, researchers determined that if life were structured like a computer, then it would have an incredibly high chance of spontaneously dying. The experts demonstrated that the operating systems (OS) driving modern-day computers are a lot less qualified at ensuring their survival than the g... |
11 May 2010
04:45 GMT |
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An international collaboration of researchers has recently managed to make substantial headway in their study of the human genome. The investigators were able to gain new, thorough insight into the functional organization and arrangement of the human genetic material, and the data they collected is presented in a pap... |
26 March 2010
05:32 GMT |
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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
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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
06:00 GMT |
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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
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