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Scientists identify key factor that controls HIV latency

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) have found another clue that may lead to eradication of HIV from infected patients who have been on antiretroviral therapy. A real cure for HIV has ...


DNA template could explain evolutionary shifts

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Rearrangements of all sizes in genomes, genes and exons can result from a glitch in DNA copying that occurs when the process stalls at a critical point and then shifts to a different genetic template, duplicating and even ...


Covering the bases: Quantum effect may hold promise for low-cost DNA sequencing, sensor applications

Covering the bases: Quantum effect may hold promise for low-cost DNA sequencing, sensor applications

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A ghostly property of matter, called quantum tunneling, may aid the quest for accurate, low-cost genomic sequencing, according to a new paper in Nature Nanotechnology Letters by Stuart Lindsay and his collab ...





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Tiny Bacteria Secret to Cicada's Success

Tiny Bacteria Secret to Cicada's Success

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- John McCutcheon remembers the song of the cicada - the loudest song in the insect world - as the sound track to countless summer hours spent playing outside his childhood home in Rockford, ...


New nucleotide could revolutionize epigenetics

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Anyone who studied a little genetics in high school has heard of adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine - the A,T,G and C that make up the DNA code. But those are not the whole story. The rise of epigenetics in the past decade ...


Team led by Scripps research scientists finds new way that cells fix damage to DNA

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of researchers at The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has discovered a new way by which DNA repairs itself, a process that is critical to the protection of the genome, and integral to prevention of ...


'Pinball protons' created by ultraviolet rays and other causes can lead to DNA damage

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created May 17, 2006 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Researchers have known for years that damaged DNA can lead to human diseases such as cancer, but how damage occurs--and what causes it--has remained less clear.


Finding that 1-in-a-billion that could lead to disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 19, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 0

Errors in the genetic code can give rise to cancer and a host of other diseases, but finding these errors can be more difficult than looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack. Now, scientists at Johns Hopkins have ...


Huntington's disease problem start early

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 09, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The damaging effects of the mutated protein involved in Huntington’s disease take place earlier in cell life than previously believed, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in a report that appears in ...


Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease

Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of ...


Researchers identify how to switch off cancer cell genes

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 12, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (30) | comments 3

A new study led by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) identifies how genes are silenced in cancer cells through distinct changes in the density of nucleosomes within the cells.


In Ocean's Depths, Heat-Loving 'Extremophile' Evolves a Strange Molecular Trick

In Ocean's Depths, Heat-Loving 'Extremophile' Evolves a Strange Molecular Trick

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Making its home near extreme temperatures of thermal vents on the ocean floor, the organism Methanopyrus kandleri harbors a molecular secret that intrigues evolutionary biologists and even ...


DNA editing tool flips its target

Biology /

created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Imagine having to copy an entire book by hand without missing a comma. Our cells face a similar task every time they divide. They must duplicate both their DNA and a subtle pattern of punctuation-like modifications on the ...



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