News tagged with genetic records

Research reveals aquatic bacteria more recent move to land

Research by University of Tennessee, Knoxville, faculty has discovered that bacteria's move from sea to land may have occurred much later than thought. It also has revealed that the bacteria may be especially useful in bioenergy ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Research team finds new explanation for Cambrian explosion

(PhysOrg.com) -- For hundreds of years, researchers from many branches of science have sought to explain the veritable explosion in diversity in animal organisms that started approximately 541 million years ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Google strikes deal to preserve DNA data online

Concerned that the federal government might not keep funding the world's largest free database of genetic data, Google Inc. has forged a deal with a Mountain View, Calif., startup to keep the information online - and free ...

Technology / Internet

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Targeted testing offers treatment hope for ovarian cancer patients

Women with ovarian cancer could be helped by a new test that identifies the specific type of tumour they have, a conference will hear this week.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Genes, not race, determine donor kidney survival

A new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center sheds light on what causes certain kidneys to do better than others after being transplanted, providing doctors with an easy way to screen for donor kidneys ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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Electronic medical records speed genetic health studies

Recruiting thousands of patients to collect health data for genetic clues to disease is expensive and time consuming. But that arduous process of collecting data for genetic studies could be faster and cheaper by instead ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Mini or massive? For turtles and tortoises, it all depends on where you live

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists from the UCLA Division of Life Sciences have reported the first quantitative evidence for an evolutionary link between habitat and body size in turtles and tortoises.

Biology / Evolution

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Genetic archaeology finds parts of our genome more closely related to orangutans than chimps

In a study published online today in Genome Research, in coordination with the publication of the orangutan genome sequence, scientists have presented the surprising finding that although orangutans and humans are more d ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Paleovirology expanded: Non-retroviral virus fragments found in animal genomes

Understanding the evolution of life-threatening viruses like influenza, Ebola and dengue fever, could help us to minimize their impact. New research points the way to a fossil record of viruses that have insinuated themselves ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Gene screening may refine prediction of heart attack risk, researchers say

Testing for 11 specific genetic variations in hundreds of people with no history of heart disease provided information that led to revision of their estimated heart attack risk, say Mayo Clinic researchers.

Medicine & Health / Research

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Studies validate use of family health history as gold standard in disease risk assessment

Thousands of the world's top scientists and clinicians in the human genetics field will convene to present their latest research findings at the American Society of Human Genetics 60th Annual Meeting, which will be held November ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Use of informatics, EMRs enable genetic study of vascular disease

Scientific research published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) reports on a study of genetic variants that influence human susceptibility to peripheral arterial dise ...

Medicine & Health / Research

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Tracking viruses back in time

How long have viruses been around? No one knows. Scientists at Portland State University have begun taking the first steps toward answering this question.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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People want to be asked before sharing genetic data

People want to be informed and asked for consent before deciding whether to let researchers share their genetic information in a federal database. This is according to a team of investigators at Group Health Research Institute ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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True causes for extinction of cave bear revealed

The cave bear started to become extinct in Europe 24,000 years ago, but until now the cause was unknown. An international team of scientists has analysed mitochondrial DNA sequences from 17 new fossil samples, ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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