Researchers identify a process that enables access to genes

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Underneath ubiquitylation. The nucleus (blue) of a mutant yeast cell appears to be deformed due to the loss of a process, ubiquitylation, that underlies the unpackaging of DNA.

It turns out there’s more than one way to skin a gene. New research from Rockefeller University suggests that two closely related DNA unpackaging mechanisms may not work the way scientists thought.

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AIDS-hit Swaziland population drops

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The population of the AIDS-riven kingdom of Swaziland, already one of the smallest countries in Africa, has fallen by around a fifth in the last decade, figures showed Friday.

California bans restaurants from using trans fats

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(AP) -- California on Friday became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food, following several cities and major fast-food chains in erasing the notorious artery-clogger from menus.

FDA: Avoid jalapenos from Mexico, not US

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(AP) -- Only jalapeno peppers grown in Mexico are implicated in the nationwide salmonella outbreak, the government announced Friday in clearing the U.S. crop.

Tracing tomatoes from field to fork -- a new system

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(AP) -- When there's an urgent need to trace fruits and vegetables in a crisis like the salmonella outbreak, a lot of the pieces for a rapid-response system already exist. But nobody has quite figured out ...

Briton fuming over fine for smoking in own van

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A painter and decorator has been fined for breaching Britain's smoking ban -- by puffing on a cigarette in his own van, he said Friday.

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