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The worrying conclusions of a new research indicate HIV medication to be responsible for the onset of premature aging. The connection has been observed primarily in Africa, but also in low-income countries on other continents.In a paper appearing in the pages of the top scientific journal Nature Genetics, experts ind... |
27 June 2011
10:03 GMT |
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A group of scientists announce the development of a new method of forcing cancer cells to destroy themselves. This advancement could be used to develop new types of therapies against various forms of cancer. The method relies on affecting the mitochondria of tumor cells.Mitochondria, colloquially referred to as the p... |
20 April 2011
03:25 GMT |
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Dogs, wolves and coyotes can suffer from a contagious form of cancer, that seems to repair its own genetic mutations by adopting genes from the host, revealed a new study carried out by scientists at Imperial College London.Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor or CTVT is a very special form of cancer that is usually t... |
21 January 2011
06:43 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in Davis (UCD) demonstrate in a new study that children with autism are also highly likely to suffer from defects in their mitochondria, which are structures generally refer to as the “power plants” of the cell. An important conclusion of the research is that the... |
8 December 2010
10:54 GMT |
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A new research at St George's, University of London has shed some light on a new cause of the rare mitochondrial disease called spastic ataxia – a gene mutation mechanism.They believe that the same gene mutation could also trigger other neurological disorders that lead to growth, coordination, speech, visu... |
22 October 2010
10:58 GMT |
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An international collaboration of researchers has recently conducted a new study on how cells die, which may further studies being conducted in this important field of research considerably.Programmed cellular death is one of the most important processes in the human body, because it allows us to get rid of old, decr... |
27 September 2010
10:28 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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Organelles called mitochondria are oftentimes referred to as the “power plants of the cell.” They are responsible for converting nutrients into ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the basic energy currency in all complex organisms. The mitochondrial genome is therefore extremely important, as is its replication... |
10 August 2010
03:07 GMT |
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A team of investigators recently conducted a new study into a key class of enzymes that they say is absolutely critical for all types of cells during energy conversion. Through the work was conducted on bacteria, the researchers say that the findings also hold relevance for the way human cells convert energy as well,... |
4 August 2010
16:01 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) recently managed a significant breakthrough in their studies of the dangerous bacteria Vibrio cholerae. The bacterium is the agent that causes the terrible infectious disease known as cholera, but the team believes that this disease may soon becom... |
29 July 2010
04:00 GMT |
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In our quest for preventing aging, we may find help in the most unlikely of places. This is the conclusion of a new study conducted in the United Kingdom, which determined that stress proteins may be playing a role in preventing aging from setting in. The research was conducted on the Heat Shock Protein (HSP10), whic... |
24 May 2010
10:37 GMT |
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According to existing classifications, killer whales, or orcas, are all lumped together in a single species, but a new genetic research would seem to indicate the existence of at least four species. Researchers say that marked differences exist between the ways these groups of animals live, hunt, and speak, as well a... |
26 April 2010
10:26 GMT |
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A fresh scientific investigation sheds light on the mechanisms employed by a genetic mutation in causing severe brain conditions, a research team announces. The finding is very important for developing new tools for detection, analysis and treatment of a common inherited neurodegenerative disease, the group writing a... |
24 March 2010
06:02 GMT |
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In the case of severe trauma patients, there are more things threatening their lives other than the severity of their wounds, or possible bacterial infections. Researchers have finally cracked an old medical mystery, which has been enduring for the past 15 years. They learned that substances released from the power p... |
4 March 2010
07:02 GMT |
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In the mid-1990s, police investigators and forensics experts added a new tool to their inventory of methods for analyzing biological samples. They began running mitochondrial DNA comparison tests, under the assumption that each type of cell in the same individual would have the same type of genetic material in these ... |
4 March 2010
02:46 GMT |
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Genetic analysis of the DNA in a polar bear jawbone has finally yielded the first genome of the polar animal. The fossil, which was recovered in 2004 from Svalbard, Norway, belongs to a specimen that lived between 110,000 and 130,000 years ago, and researchers say that it provided them with definite proof that this s... |
2 March 2010
03:44 GMT |
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Evolutionary biologists looking into the evolutionary rates and patterns of Adelie penguins have recently determined that the animals appear to be evolving at a much faster pace than previously calculated. In the research, scientists looked at mitochondrial DNA samples collected from penguins currently living in rook... |
18 November 2009
05:52 GMT |
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Intelligent Design proponents will need a lot of tinkering with logic and reason to get past the new finds made by an international team of researchers, including scientists from the Monash University. The new paper makes a hole right in the middle of ID arguments, which hold that molecular machines inside living cel... |
15 September 2009
17:01 GMT |
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The human body is, indeed, one of the most mysterious and best put together constructs in the world, but its amazing complexity and functions must not lead people to believe that it is the work of a higher power. For example, Intelligent Design (ID) proponents have said for a long time that one of their main argument... |
28 August 2009
05:55 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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Cyclorana alboguttata (the burrowing frog) is one of the least known animals in the world. And certainly the fact that it's a frog doesn't help it all that much either. However, most of you would be surprised to learn that the vertebrate can do only what bacteria have been known to be capable of, which ... |
29 June 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Sexual reproduction may be a lot of fun, but it's far from being perfect when it comes to combining the genetic material of the parents, sometimes leading to incurable genetic diseases. However, genetically engineered children could literally be born perfect in a couple of years in the UK, by replacing defective... |
5 June 2008
06:35 GMT |
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Of course, it was not Gitche Manitou their creator. All the Red Skins, from those of North America to those of South America, came from Asia. A new DNA study published in the journal "PLoS One" shows that 6 women founded about 95% of the populations of the modern Native Americans, 20,000 years ago."The finding does n... |
14 March 2008
03:48 GMT |
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Common knowledge says that a child has two parents. But what about three biological parents? A team at the Newcastle University has created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man, a technology that one day could be a therapy for couples, for getting kids free of genetic diseases. Still, these embryos a... |
6 February 2008
02:47 GMT |
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Mitochondria are the little fabrics of energy for the cell, where sugars and fats are burned, resulting energy, water and carbon dioxide. They have their own DNA, distinct from the nuclear one and mutations in the mitochondrial DNA have resulted to be one of the main causes of low sperm count and mobility in humans.B... |
20 September 2007
14:31 GMT |
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