News tagged with genetic building blocks
When cells reach out and touch
May 01, 2009 |
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MicroRNAs are single-stranded snippets that, not long ago, were given short shrift as genetic junk. Now that studies have shown they regulate genes involved in normal functioning as well as diseases such as cancer, everyone ...
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Biologists discover bacterial defense mechanism against aggressive oxygen
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Bacteria possess an ingenious mechanism for preventing oxygen from harming the building blocks of the cell. This is the new finding of a team of biologists that includes Joris Messens of VIB, a life sciences research institute ...
Renegade RNA -- Clues to cancer and normal growth
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that a tiny piece of genetic code apparently goes where no bit of it has gone before, and it gets there under its own internal code.
Finding that 1-in-a-billion that could lead to disease
Aug 19, 2007 |
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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 ...
Building disease-beating wheat
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Dec 12, 2007 |
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Pioneered by CSIRO researchers, in collaboration with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Sydney University, the research illustrates the major genetic improvements possible without ...
Genetic code cracked of organisms behind fungal disease
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Scientists have unlocked the code for the building blocks of fungal organisms which are responsible for mild as well as potentially deadly infections in people.
Are you the next Usain Bolt? The answer could be in your saliva
Aug 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Newcastle University are launching a ground-breaking study to find out why some of us can run faster than others - despite doing the same amount of training.
Researchers identify new genetic marker for breast cancer
Mar 03, 2008 |
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An international group of investigators led by scientists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and the National Cancer Institute has identified a new genetic marker of risk for breast cancer. Women with this ...
Silenced genes as a warning sign of blood cancer
Aug 04, 2009 |
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In many types of cancer, parts of the genetic material of tumor cells are switched off by chemical labels called methyl groups. This kind of methyl labeling ranges among the epigenetic changes that do not change the sequence ...
A New Way to Think About Earth's First Cells
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Jun 05, 2008 |
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A team of researchers at Harvard University have modeled in the laboratory a primitive cell, or protocell, that is capable of building, copying and containing DNA.
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 ...
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