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Scientists demonstrate role of protein in distinguishing chromosome ends from DNA breaks
Sep 17, 2009 |
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The Stowers Institute's Baumann Lab has demonstrated how human cells protect chromosome ends from misguided repairs that can lead to cancer. The work, published in The EMBO Journal, a publication of the European Molecular Biolog ...
Photosynthesizing bacteria with a day-night cycle contain rare chromosome
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Sep 15, 2008 |
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Researchers sequencing the DNA of blue-green algae found a linear chromosome harboring genes important for producing biofuels. Simultaneously analyzing the complement of proteins revealed more genes on the linear and the ...
Benchmark cyanobacterium sequenced could be cheap renewable energy source
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Sep 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers headed by biologists at Washington University in St. Louis has sequenced the genome of a unique bacterium that manages two disparate operations — photosynthesis and nitrogen ...
Scientist finds alternate explanation for dune formation on Titan
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Aug 25, 2009 |
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A new and likely controversial paper has just been published online in Nature Geoscience by LSU Department of Geography and Anthropology Chair Patrick Hesp and United States Geological Survey scientist David ...
CERN boss wants to bid for linear collider
Sep 16, 2009 |
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CERN’s director general Rolf-Dieter Heuer will push for the linear collider, the next big experiment in particle physics after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be built at the Geneva lab. Heuer made his call to situate ...
Direct evidence that bioclocks control chromosome coiling
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Nov 21, 2007 |
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There is a new twist on the question of how biological clocks work. In recent years, scientists have discovered that biological clocks help organize a dizzying array of biochemical processes in the body. Despite ...
Handle with care: Telomeres resemble DNA fragile sites
Jul 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Telomeres, the repetitive sequences of DNA at the ends of linear chromosomes, have an important function: They protect vulnerable chromosome ends from molecular attack. Researchers at Rockefeller ...
Silicon Detector Validated, Moves Forward
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two of the three detector design concepts for the proposed next linear collider have been validated by the International Detector Advisory Group, and their conclusions endorsed by the International ...
Two proteins found on telomeres control DNA damage response pathways
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Aug 10, 2007 |
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No sooner had cells evolved linear chromosomes than they had a life-threatening problem to solve. To the machinery that repairs broken DNA, chromosome ends look a lot like breaks in need of mending, so they ...
Putting the squeeze on data
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Data compression is one of the fundamental research areas in computer science, letting information systems do more with less. It’s the reason the iPod nano can hold thousands of songs instead ...
Harvesting Energy from Natural Motion: Magnets, Cantilever Capture Wide Range of Frequencies
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By taking advantage of the vagaries of the natural world, Duke University engineers have developed a novel approach that they believe can more efficiently harvest electricity from the motions ...
Hair today, gone tomorrow: tracking hair loss and growth
Oct 31, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO has developed maths-based imaging technology to measure hair on different parts of the human body.
Solving big problems with new quantum algorithm
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recently published paper, Aram Harrow at the University of Bristol and colleagues from MIT in the United States have discovered a quantum algorithm that solves large problems much faster ...
How worms protect their chromosomes: Thereby hangs a surprising tail
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Mar 06, 2008 |
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A team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has discovered that the roundworm C. elegans constructs the protective tips of its chromosomes — known as telomeres — with a little more panache ...
Human eye inspires advance in computer vision (w/Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Inspired by the behavior of the human eye, Boston College computer scientists have developed a technique that lets computers see objects as fleeting as a butterfly or tropical fish with nearly double the accuracy and 10 times ...
