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Cells can read damaged DNA without missing a beat
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Scientists have shown that cells' DNA-reading machinery can skim through certain kinds of damaged DNA without skipping any letters in the genetic "text." The studies, performed in bacteria, suggest a new mechanism that can ...
Study carried out into biological risks of eating reptiles
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Reptiles are bred in captivity primarily for their skins, but some restaurants and population groups also want them for their meat. A study shows that eating these animals can have side effects that call into ...
Researchers map all the fragile sites of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae's genome
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The research group of Dr. François Robert, a researcher at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), in collaboration with the team of Dr. Daniel Durocher (Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute and University ...
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Researchers reveal 3-D structure of bullet-shaped virus with potential to fight cancer, HIV
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A study reveals how respiratory tubes and capillaries form
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Engineering bacterial cells
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Method of the future uses single-cell imaging to identify gene interactions
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Study suggests when dealing with fungi, it's best to attack from both sides
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Physicists investigate structural properties of spider webs,
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Exploring the characteristics of viscoelastic fluids,
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Artificial magnetic fields for light could illuminate correlated quantum systems,
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Creating a quantum gas,
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Physicists Investigate Possibility of an 'Unhiggs',
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Scientists measure energy released from a virus during infection
Feb 05, 2010 |
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Within a virus's tiny exterior is a store of energy waiting to be unleashed. When the virus encounters a host cell, this pent-up energy is released, propelling the viral DNA into the cell and turning it into a virus factory. ...
Road mapping could be key to curing TB
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The complex chain of metabolic events in bacteria that lead to fatal diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) may be better understood using mathematical models, according to an article published in the February issue of Microbiology To ...
Bacteria toxic to wound-treating maggots
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Bacteria that infect chronic wounds can be deadly to maggot 'biosurgeons' used to treat the lesions, show researchers writing in the journal Microbiology. The findings could lead to more effective treatment of wounds and th ...
Researchers identify regulator of human sperm cells
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UCSF researchers have identified an elusive molecular regulator that controls the ability of human sperm to reach and fertilize the egg, a finding that has implications on both treating male infertility and preventing pregnancy.
Nuclear pore complexes harbor new class of gene regulators
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Nuclear pore complexes are best known as the communication channels that regulate the passage of all molecules to and from a cell's nucleus. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, however, ...
Breakthrough by Danish scientists in preventing maternal malaria
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have become the first in the world to synthesize the entire protein that is responsible for life-threatening malaria in pregnant women and their unborn children.
A molecule that destroys normal metabolism is found
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Overeating in mice triggers a molecule once considered to be only involved in detecting and fighting viruses to also destroy normal metabolism, leading to insulin resistance and setting the stage for diabetes. ...
Bad news for mosquitoes: Study may lead to better traps, repellents
Feb 03, 2010 |
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Yale University researchers have found more than two dozen scent receptors in malaria-transmitting mosquitoes that detect compounds in human sweat, a finding that may help scientists to develop new ways to combat a disease ...
Biologists determine microRNA activity is suppressed in mouse ovum
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Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania studying oocytes in mice, the immature egg cells necessary for sexual reproduction, have demonstrated an unusual behavior in microRNA, or miRNA, activity that may be the first ...
PNAS paper cites discovery of small RNA 'quality-control' mechanism
Feb 02, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a person is exposed to a cold virus, whether he or she actually becomes ill may come down to how well short snippets of RNA in the person's defense response system interact with the RNA-based ...
Why is it so difficult to eradicate salmonella?
Feb 02, 2010 |
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Feed contaminated by salmonella bacteria is a familiar and costly problem for the animal feed industry all over the world. Some types of salmonella have succeeded in establishing themselves in feed and fish ...
Double agent: Glial cells can protect or kill neurons, vision
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Scientists have identified a double agent in the eye that, once triggered, can morph from neuron protector to neuron killer. The discovery has significant health implications since the neurons killed through ...
Cells send dirty laundry home to mom
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Understanding how aged and damaged mother cells manage to form new and undamaged daughter cells is one of the toughest riddles of ageing, but scientists now know how yeast cells do it. In a groundbreaking ...
Argonautes: A big turn-off for proteins
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Johns Hopkins scientists believe they may have figured out how genetic snippets called microRNAs are able to shut down the production of some proteins.
Tumor suppressor p53 prevents cancer progression in cells with missegregated chromosomes
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Cells missegregate a chromosome approximately once every hundred divisions. But don't be too alarmed: new research in the Journal of Cell Biology shows that the tumor suppressor p53 limits the growth of cel ...
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Capturing Fast Pollen Tube Growth on Camera, Researchers Pin Down Plant Fertilization Process
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Helpful yeast battles food-contaminating aflatoxin
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Mammoth Achievement: Researchers at the forefront of molecular biology
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Green plant transport mystery solved
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Grant to study how cells sense electric fields
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Genetic 'atlas' of cells will pinpoint causes of disease
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Gene family found to play key role in early stages of development
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Gastric ulcer bacteria turn immune defense inwards
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Neuron connections seen in 3-D
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Jan 22, 2010 |
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The 'sultan of slime': Biologist continues to be fascinated by organisms after nearly 70 years of study
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Slime design mimics Tokyo's rail system
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Unwanted guests: How herpes simplex virus gets rid of the cell's security guards
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New concoction reprograms differentiated cells into pluripotent stem cells
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Hungry immune guardians are snappier
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Chaperonins prompt proper protein folding -- but how?
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Energy of attacking virus revealed
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Friendly bacteria love the humble apple
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Membrane-coat proteins: Bacteria have them too
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Researchers discover Ebola's deadly secret
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In sync: Squid, glowing companions march in genetic harmony
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