News tagged with sequences
When using gestures, rules of grammar remain the same
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 30, 2008 |
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The mind apparently has a consistent way of ordering an event that defies the order in which subjects, verbs, and objects typically appear in languages, according to research at the University of Chicago.
Trichoplax genome sequenced -- 'rosetta stone' for understanding evolution
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Sep 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale molecular and evolutionary biologists in collaboration with Department of Energy scientists produced the full genome sequence of Trichoplax, one of nature's most primitive multicellular organi ...
Researchers Find 'Junk DNA' May Have Triggered Key Evolutionary Changes in Human Thumb and Foot
Sep 04, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Out of the 3 billion genetic letters that spell out the human genome, Yale scientists have found a handful that may have contributed to the evolutionary changes in human limbs that enabled ...
Can genetic information be controlled by light?
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Researchers at Kiel University have succeeded in showing that DNA strands differ in their light sensitivity depending on their base sequences. Their results are reported by Nina Schwalb and colleagues in the current issue ...
Newly explored bacteria reveal some huge RNA surprises
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers have found very large RNA structures within previously unstudied bacteria that appear crucial to basic biological functions such as helping viruses infect cells ...
Sea lampreys jettison one-fifth of their genome
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered that the sea lamprey, which emerged from jawless fish first appearing 500 million years ago, dramatically remodels its genome. Shortly after a fertilized lamprey ...
Scientists show how DNA repairs may reshape the genome
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Aug 13, 2008 |
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Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) have shown how broken sections of chromosomes can recombine to change genomes and spawn new species.
Study finds unexpected bacterial diversity on human skin
May 28, 2009 |
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The health of our skin -- one of the body's first lines of defense against illness and injury — depends upon the delicate balance between our own cells and the millions of bacteria and other one-celled microbes ...
New piece found in the puzzle of epigenetics
Jun 16, 2009 |
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For many years scientists have known that the numerous biological functions of an organism are not regulated solely by the DNA sequence of its genes: Superordinate regulatory mechanisms exist that contribute to determining ...
Researchers discover evolutionary event underlying the origin of dachshunds, dogs with short legs
Jul 16, 2009 |
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A single evolutionary event appears to explain the short, curved legs that characterize all of today's dachshunds, corgis, basset hounds and at least 16 other breeds of dogs, a team led by the National Human ...
Sequences capture the code of the common cold
Biology /
Feb 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to confront our most familiar malady, scientists have deciphered the instruction manual for the common cold.
Covering the bases: Quantum effect may hold promise for low-cost DNA sequencing, sensor applications
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 22, 2009 |
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A ghostly property of matter, called quantum tunneling, may aid the quest for accurate, low-cost genomic sequencing, according to a new paper in Nature Nanotechnology Letters by Stuart Lindsay and his collab ...
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 ...
Humans are reason for why domestic animals have strange and varied coat colors
Biology /
Jan 16, 2009 |
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(Physorg.com) -- Humans have actively changed the coats of domestic animals by cherry-picking rare genetic mutations, causing variations such as different colours, bands and spots, according to a new study. ...
Study casts new light on research of controversial scientist Paul Kammerer
Sep 03, 2009 |
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A new study into the research of the renowned Lamarckian experimentalist Paul Kammerer may help to end the controversy which has engulfed his research for almost a century. The study, published in The Journal of Experimental Zo ...
