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Scientists Shed Light on Evolution of Gene Regulation

Scientists Shed Light on Evolution of Gene Regulation

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created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at Penn State have shed light on some of the processes that regulate genes -- such as the processes that ensure that proteins are produced at the correct time, place, and amount in an organism -- ...


Researchers Shed Light on Evolution of Gene Regulation

Researchers Shed Light on Evolution of Gene Regulation

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created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Penn State have shed light on some of the processes that regulate genes -- such as the processes that ensure that proteins are produced at the correct time, place, and amount ...





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Analysis of Copernicus putative remains support identity

Analysis of Copernicus putative remains support identity

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Swedish and polish researchers now publish results from the analysis of the putative remains of Copernicus. A DNA-analysis of shed of hairs found in a book from Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala University, was ...


Light shed on the secret behind probiotic bacteria promoting health

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Functional food is the food industry's fastest-growing product group, its leading products including dairy products which contain probiotics, that is, bacteria promoting health. Valio's Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG®) is the ...


Researchers Shed Light on Esophageal Disease

Researchers Shed Light on Esophageal Disease

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Canadian Light Source (CLS) staff scientist Luca Quaroni and Dr. Alan Casson from the University of Saskatchewan used the synchrotron's infrared microscope to identify tissue afflicted with ...


7 new luminescent mushroom species discovered

Seven new luminescent mushroom species discovered

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Seven new glow-in-the-dark mushroom species have been discovered, increasing the number of known luminescent fungi species from 64 to 71. Reported today in the journal Mycologia, the new finds include two ne ...


Birth of a star predicted

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The astrophysicist João Alves, director of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almeria, and his colleague Andreas Bürkert, from the German observatory in the University of Munich, believe that "the inevitable future of the starless ...


Chemists explain the switchboards in our cells

Chemists explain the switchboards in our cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Our cells are controlled by billions of molecular "switches" and chemists at UC Santa Barbara have developed a theory that explains how these molecules work. Their findings may significantly help efforts to ...


Ancient fossils shed light on anatomical changes accompanying evolution of first land vertebrates

Ancient fossils shed light on anatomical changes accompanying evolution of first land vertebrates

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Cartoon depictions of the first animals to emerge from the ocean and walk on land often show a simple fish with feet, venturing from water to land. But according to Jennifer Clack, a paleontologist at the ...


Cosmic archaeology: Astrophysicists use new spectrographs to look far back into the history of the universe

Cosmic archaeology: Astrophysicists use new spectrographs to look far back into the history of the universe

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The distant past of the universe is moving closer. Astronomers are using special spectrographs to investigate galaxies in the depths of the universe as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ...


Warped debris disks around stars are blowin' in the wind

Warped debris disks around stars are blowin' in the wind (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The dust-filled disks where new planets may be forming around other stars occasionally take on some difficult-to-understand shapes. Now, a team led by John Debes at NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...


Astronomers explore 'last blank space' on map of the Universe

Astronomers explore 'last blank space' on map of the Universe

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (30) | comments 71

(PhysOrg.com) -- The most distant object ever discovered is described in this week's edition of the science journal Nature. Two international teams of astronomers report their observations of a gamma-ray burst ...



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