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Scientists find way to catalog all that goes wrong in a cancer cell

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Princeton University scientists has produced a systematic listing of the ways a particular cancerous cell has "gone wrong," giving researchers a powerful tool that eventually could make possible ...


Genetic ancestry highly correlated with ethnic and linguistic groups in Asia

Biology / Other

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Several genome-wide studies of human genetic diversity have been conducted on European populations. Now, for the first time, these studies have been extended to 73 Southeast Asian (SEA) and East Asian (EA) populations.


Personalities judged by physical appearance alone

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Observers were able to accurately judge some aspects of a stranger's personality from looking at photographs, according to a study in the current issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSBP), the official monthl ...


Extended youthfulness as a prevention for Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Research

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Therapies that can keep us younger longer might also push back the clock on Alzheimer's disease, suggests a new study of mice in the December 11th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.


Researchers discover a way to strengthen proteins

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Proteins, which perform such vital roles in our bodies as building and maintaining tissues and regulating cellular processes, are a finicky lot. In order to work properly, they must be folded just so, yet many proteins readily ...


Introns: A mystery renewed

Introns: A mystery renewed

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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The sequences of nonsense DNA that interrupt genes could be far more important to the evolution of genomes than previously thought, according to a recent Science report by Indiana University Bloomington and ...


Only a small number of so-called giant viruses have been discovered, the first in 1993 by accident

New giant virus discovered

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 8

Scientists in France have isolated a new giant virus that lurks inside amoeba and whose gene pool includes genetic material from other species.


Geneticist reveals molecular view of key epigenetic regulator

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a paper published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Michael Kobor reported the structure and function of a key player in regulating chromatin in yeast and humans.


Possible ovarian cancer treatment target identified

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A multi-institutional study has identified a potential personalized treatment target for the most common form of ovarian cancer. In the December 8 issue of Cancer Cell, the research team describes finding that a gene called ...


H1N1 influenza adopted novel strategy to move from birds to humans

H1N1 influenza adopted novel strategy to move from birds to humans

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2009 H1N1 influenza virus used a new strategy to cross from birds into humans, a warning that it has more than one trick up its sleeve to jump the species barrier and become virulent.



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