Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
A "living fossil" tree species is helping a researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the future.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
In the largest ever genetic study of male to female transsexuals, Australian researchers have found a significant genetic link between gender identity and a gene involved in testosterone action.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Scientists led by Chris Tyler-Smith of the Genographic Research Project found differences on the Y chromosomes of more than six percent of the men living in areas around the Mediterranean once inhabited by Phoenicians. “The results are important because they show that the Phoenician settlement sites are marked by a ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Researchers have developed a simple method for making a certain class of adult stem cells more therapeutically effective. By attaching a molecule called SLeX to the surface of human cells extracted from bone marrow, researchers have altered how the cells travel through vessels. This might enable the cells to more ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Medical researchers have unlocked part of the mystery underlying a childhood eye disease. New research shows how children with some types of glaucoma end up with missing or extra pieces of DNA.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Two proteins interact in a previously unknown molecular mechanism that may have broad implications in future studies looking for the causes of defective organs in fetuses, metastatic cancers and other diseases, according to new researcher, Reporting their work in Genes & Development, the researchers said the mechanism coordinates cell identity ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
(Harvard Medical School) Researchers have developed a simple method for making a certain class of adult stem cells more therapeutically effective. By attaching a molecule called SLeX to the surface of human cells extracted from bone marrow, researchers have altered how the cells travel through vessels. This might enable the ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
(University of Delaware) University of Delaware scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Arizona and South Dakota State University, have identified unusual differences in the natural mechanisms that turn off, or "silence," genes in corn. The discovery, which was made by comparing the impact of inactivating a gene ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
(Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung in Braunschweig, Germany. have achieved an important advance in better understanding metabolic pathways in bacteria. Using computer models, the "System and Synthetic Biology" working group, headed up by Vítor Martins dos Santos, calculated the genetic changes that are ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have unlocked part of the mystery underlying a childhood eye disease. New research shows how children with some types of glaucoma end up with missing or extra pieces of DNA.
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