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Grid browser finds the meaning of life

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A web browser that can understand technical terms in life sciences and automatically find additional resources and services has been developed by European researchers. It could lead to a new generation of ...


Tree of Life

Darwin's Tree of Life May Be More Like a Thicket

Biology /

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(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 ...


Study of human tissue reveals potential colon cancer biomarker

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Cincinnati scientists have identified a new biomarker that could help predict a person's risk of developing colon cancer and how aggressive it may become.


Hair of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes of Extinct Species

Hair of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes of Extinct Species

Biology /

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

All the genes that the exotic Tasmanian Tiger inherited only from its mother will be revealed by an international team of scientists in a research paper to be published on 13 January 2009 in the online edition ...


Researchers discover new genes that fuse in cancer

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Using new technologies that make it easier to sequence the human genome, researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a series of genes that become fused when their chromosomes trade ...