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Saved by junk DNA
May 28, 2009 |
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VIB researchers linked to K.U.Leuven and Harvard University show that stretches of DNA previously believed to be useless 'junk' DNA play a vital role in the evolution of our genome. They found that unstable pieces of junk ...
Large DNA stretches, not single genes, shut off as cells mature
Jan 18, 2009 |
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Experiments at Johns Hopkins have found that the gradual maturing of embryonic cells into cells as varied as brain, liver and immune system cells is apparently due to the shut off of several genes at once rather than in individual ...
Scientists find a fingerprint of evolution across the human genome
Biology /
Apr 08, 2008 |
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The Human Genome Project revealed that only a small fraction of the 3 billion “letter” DNA code actually instructs cells to manufacture proteins, the workhorses of most life processes. This has raised the question of what ...
Scientists build a better DNA molecule
Biology /
May 27, 2008 |
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Building faultless objects from faulty components may seem like alchemy. Yet scientists from the Weizmann Institute’s Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, and Biological Chemistry Departments have achieved just that, ...
Nanoparticles Detect Telomerase Activity
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 24, 2008 |
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Telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from shortening when they divide, is widely suspected of playing a key role in making cancer cells immortal. Though researchers have developed a variety of methods for measuring ...
New driver of brand extension success found by UM professor
May 15, 2008 |
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Brand extensions, like Jeep’s strollers, Maxim’s hair color, or Apple’s iTunes are lucrative ways that a brand can increase its revenue and customer base-or confuse and alienate them. In an increasingly borderless world in ...
Season's first tropical depression forms in Atlantic
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 28, 2009 |
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The first tropical depression of the north Atlantic's hurricane season formed Thursday and forecasters said it would likely reach tropical storm strength before petering out over open seas.
Native Americans descended from a single ancestral group, DNA study confirms
Apr 29, 2009 |
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For two decades, researchers have been using a growing volume of genetic data to debate whether ancestors of Native Americans emigrated to the New World in one wave or successive waves, or from one ancestral ...
Traditional stretching doesn't help, studies find
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Arvelle White lifts weights three or four times a week. Before he even looks at a dumbbell, though, he hops on a treadmill and runs for 20 minutes.
The Sun Shows Signs of Life
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2008 |
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After two-plus years of few sunspots, even fewer solar flares, and a generally eerie calm, the sun is finally showing signs of life. "I think solar minimum is behind us," says sunspot forecaster David Hathaway ...
Study offers clues to beating hearing loss
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Leeds have made a significant step forward in understanding the causes of some forms of deafness.
The Ultimate Home Cinematic 21:9 Viewing Experience
Jan 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine yourself, watching true Cinema 21:9 LCD TV in the privacy of your own home! Philips is the first to come out with Cinema 21:9, as other manufactures are sure to follow in their footsteps. ...
Cataloguing invisible life: Microbe genome emerges from lake sediment
Biology /
Aug 17, 2008 |
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When entrepreneurial geneticist Craig Venter sailed around the world on his yacht sequencing samples of seawater, it was an ambitious project to use genetics to understand invisible ecological communities. ...
Scientists find more dinosaur bones at Utah quarry
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Scientists at one of Utah's major new dinosaur quarries have found 60 to 70 new bones this spring, including what appears to be a 20-foot-long neck bone discovered this week.
The GOES-12 satellite sees Large Hurricane Ida nearing landfall
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Residents of the U.S. Gulf coast thought they were getting a break this hurricane season until Ida showed up. Today, November 9, Ida is a hurricane and is headed for a landfall in the western Florida Panhandle ...
