News tagged with emergence of life
We owe it all to comets
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Comets have always fascinated us. A mysterious appearance could symbolize God's displeasure or mean a sure failure in battle, at least for one side. Now Tel Aviv University justifies our fascination -- comets ...
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Is there anybody out there?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 16, 2008 |
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Is there anybody out there? Probably not, according to a scientist from the University of East Anglia.
Scientists reveal connection between cancer and human evolution
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have discovered that gene mutations that once helped humans survive may increase the possibility for diseases, including cancer.
Gorillas are new source of HIV, scientists reveal
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered that gorillas are a source of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), having diagnosed a Cameroonian woman living in Paris with a strain that is different to those previously ...
Scientists demonstrate feasibility of preventing malaria parasite from becoming sexually mature
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Jun 02, 2008 |
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Researchers have demonstrated the possibility of preventing the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, which is responsible for more than a million malaria deaths a year, from becoming sexually mature.
Seeking Life's Shadow
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 01, 2009 |
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They haven't yet figured out how to draw blood from stones, but a group of French researchers is offering new insight that could change how scientists search for signs of life in Martian rocks.
Primate culture is just a stone's throw away from human evolution, study finds
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 12, 2009 |
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For 30 years, scientists have been studying stone-handling behavior in several troops of Japanese macaques to catch a unique glimpse of primate culture. By watching these monkeys acquire and maintain behavioral traditions ...
Scientists propose the kind of chemistry that led to life
Jun 08, 2007 |
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Before life emerged on earth, either a primitive kind of metabolism or an RNA-like duplicating machinery must have set the stage – so experts believe. But what preceded these pre-life steps?
Life secret exposed: Scientists unlock mystery of molecular machine
Feb 19, 2009 |
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A major mystery about the origins of life has been resolved. According to a study published in the journal Nature, two Université de Montréal scientists have proposed a new theory for how a universal molecu ...
Boosting 'mussel' power: New technique for making key marine mussel protein
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May 05, 2008 |
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Researchers in Korea report development of a way to double production of a sticky protein from marine mussels destined for use as an antibacterial coating to prevent life-threatening infections in medical ...
Genetic based human diseases are an ancient evolutionary legacy
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Oct 16, 2008 |
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Tomislav Domazet-Lošo and Diethard Tautz from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany, have systematically analysed the time of emergence for a large number of genes - genes which ...
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