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Turning genetic trash to treasure

Turning genetic trash to treasure

Medicine & Health / Research

created 11 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- John Rinn, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the Broad Institute, overcame a rocky start in life through a passion for biology and discovered ...


Balancing protein intake, not cutting calories, may be key to long life

Balancing protein intake, not cutting calories, may be key to long life

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 5

Getting the correct balance of proteins in our diet may be more important for healthy ageing than reducing calories, new research funded by the Wellcome Trust and Research into Ageing suggests.


Why females live longer than males: is it due to the father's sperm?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 12

Researchers in Japan have found that female mice produced by using genetic material from two mothers but no father live significantly longer than mice with the normal mix of maternal and paternal genes. Their findings provide ...


Biology of emergent Salmonella exposed

Biology of emergent Salmonella exposed

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers have characterised a new multi drug resistant strain of Salmonella Typhimurium that is causing life-threatening disease in Africa.


Scientists gain new understanding of disease-causing bacteria

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of scientists from The Forsyth Institute, the University of Connecticut Health Center, the CDC and the Wadsworth Center, have used state-of-the-art technology to elucidate the molecular architecture of Treponema pallidum, ...


New tools for prediction of disease progression in acute childhood leukemia

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Uppsala University and University Children’s Hospital in Uppsala have devised powerful new tools for typing cells from children with acute lymphatic leukemia and for prediction of how children ...


First-ever blueprint of a minimal cell is more complex than expected

First-ever blueprint of a minimal cell is more complex than expected

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 4

What are the bare essentials of life, the indispensable ingredients required to produce a cell that can survive on its own? Can we describe the molecular anatomy of a cell, and understand how an entire organism ...


First 'genetic map' of Han Chinese may aid search for disease susceptibility genes

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The first genetic historical map of the Han Chinese, the largest ethnic population in the world, as they migrated from south to north over evolutionary time. was published online today by the American Journal of Human Ge ...


New genetic cause of cardiac failure discovered

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Over the course of a lifetime, the heart pumps some 250 million liters of blood through the body. In the order to do this, the muscle fibers of the heart have to be extremely durable. The research group headed by Dr. Wolfgang ...


New computer cluster gets its grunt from games

New computer cluster gets its grunt from games

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (Graphics Processing Units) computer cluster that will process CSIRO research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently ...



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