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Synthetic biology yields clues to evolution and the origin of life
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Feb 15, 2009 |
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Researchers in the field of synthetic biology are still a long way from being able to assemble living cells from scratch in the laboratory. But according to biochemist David Deamer of the University of California, Santa Cruz, ...
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A Cell's Private Life: Researchers Peer Inside a Hidden Protein
Aug 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To understand the molecular machinery of the human body, scientists have to be able to observe the structure of cellular proteins. This has been particularly challenging for those proteins ...
Scientists unlock possible aging secret in genetically altered fruit fly
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Jan 22, 2009 |
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Brown University researchers have identified a cellular mechanism that could someday help fight the aging process.
Darwin's Tree of Life May Be More Like a Thicket
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In On The Origin of Species, Darwin used the image of a tree of life to illustrate how species evolve, one from another. Even today, branches sprouting from lower branches (representing ancest ...
Researchers Track How Biology's Army Is Mobilized
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Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Like a well-trained army, the fundamental biological processes of organisms are coordinated through a hierarchy of finely tuned molecular commands. In a new paper published online Dec. 18 in the journal Genes an ...
Breakthrough uses light to manipulate cell movement
Aug 19, 2009 |
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One of the biggest challenges in scientists' quest to develop new and better treatments for cancer is gaining a better understanding of how and why cancer spreads. Recent breakthroughs have uncovered how ...
Liver transplant recipients with hepatitis B may need lifelong antiviral treatment
Feb 26, 2009 |
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Patients who undergo liver transplantation for hepatitis B-related liver damage should receive lifelong antiviral treatment to keep the disease from coming back. A new study shows that they lack cellular immunity against ...
Researchers Create an Epic Genetic Atlas of Rice
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Jan 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale researchers have published a cellular atlas of genetic activity in rice, documenting with unprecedented detail how and when genes are turned off and on within cells of a living organism.
Researchers show how to divide and conquer 'social network' of cells
Nov 09, 2009 |
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On Noah's Ark animals came in twos: male and female. In human bodies trillions of cells are coupled, too, and so are the molecules from which they are composed. Yet these don't come in twos, they are regrouped ...
Both theories about human cellular aging supported by new research
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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Aging yeast cells accumulate damage over time, but they do so by following a pattern laid down earlier in their life by diet as well as the genes that control metabolism and the dynamics of cell structures such as mitochondria, ...
Ubiquitous health: Enabling telemedicine to cut hospital visits, save money
Dec 09, 2009 |
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A ubiquitous health monitoring system that automatically alerted the patient's family or physician to problematic changes in the person's vital signs could cut hospital visits and save lives, according to Japanese researchers ...
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