News tagged with molecular biologist
Scientists reveal connection between cancer and human evolution
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have discovered that gene mutations that once helped humans survive may increase the possibility for diseases, including cancer.
First sea trials for deep-ocean robotic DNA lab
May 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In late April 2009, a team of MBARI researchers tested the world's only deep-sea robotic DNA lab beneath the waters of Monterey Bay.
Plant life not a villain in methane emissions debate
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Jan 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A comprehensive investigation of plant emissions led by University of South Australia molecular biologist Dr Ellen Nisbet has put pay to the assertion that plants are producing and releasing ...
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Tuatara, the fastest evolving animal
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Mar 20, 2008 |
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In a study of New Zealand’s “living dinosaur” the tuatara, evolutionary biologist, and ancient DNA expert, Professor David Lambert and his team from the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution recovered DNA ...
Tuatara evolving faster than any other species
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Feb 29, 2008 |
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New DNA research has questioned previous notions about the evolution of the tuatara.
Method for computing evolutionary trees could revolutionize evolutionary biology
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Detailed, accurate evolutionary trees that reveal the relatedness of living things can now be determined much faster and for thousands of species with a computing method developed by computer scientists and a biologist at ...
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes similar at molecular level
Apr 30, 2007 |
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Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type 2 diabetes, the human version of mad cow disease, and other degenerative diseases are more closely related at the molecular level than scientists realized, a ...
Probing question: What is a molecular clock?
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Nov 20, 2008 |
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It doesn't tick, it doesn't have hands, and it doesn't tell you what time of day it is. But a molecular clock does tell time -- on an epoch scale. The molecular clock, explained S. Blair Hedges, is a tool ...
There is 'design' in nature, Brown biologist argues at AAAS
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Feb 17, 2008 |
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Brown University biologist Kenneth Miller has to hand one victory to the “intelligent design” crowd. They know how to frame an issue.
Researchers discover switch that causes the body to produce cancerous cells
Sep 04, 2009 |
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A team of Syracuse University researchers discovered a second molecular switch within the Mixed Lineage Leukemia protein complex that they believe could be exploited to prevent the overproduction of abnormal cells that are ...
Newly discovered mechanism in cell division has implications for chromosome's role in cancer
Aug 17, 2009 |
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"A biologist, a physicist, and a nanotechnologist walk into a..." sounds like the start of a joke. Instead, it was the start of a collaboration that has helped to decipher a critical, but so far largely unstudied, ...
Cellular decision on the computer
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Jul 14, 2008 |
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Scientists of the Division of Theoretical Bioinformatics at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) in Heidelberg have simulated on the computer how cells decide whether or not to migrate. ...
Food peptides activate bitter taste receptors
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Jan 22, 2008 |
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Researchers from the Monell Center and Tokyo University of Agriculture have used a novel molecular method to identify chemical compounds from common foods that activate human bitter taste receptors.
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