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Genetic link to heart failure

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of researchers, at Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, has identified a group of 12 genetic variants in the HSPB7 gene that is associated with heart failure in humans.


New suppressor of common liver cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tumor suppressor genes make proteins that help control cell growth. Mutations in these genes that generate nonfunctional proteins can contribute to tumor development and progression. One of the most well-known tumor suppressor ...


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The mammoths' swan song revised

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 3

This is shown by samples of ancient DNA, analysed by an international team of research scientists under the leadership of Professor Eske Willerslev from Copenhagen University. Analyses of ancient DNA thereby ...


Study shows loss of 15-42 percent of mammals in North America

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (7) | comments 5

If the planet is headed for another mass extinction like the previous five, each of which wiped out more than 75 percent of all species on the planet, then North American mammals are one-fifth to one-half the way there, according ...


UNSW students sequence genome of the Wollemi Pine

UNSW students sequence genome of the Wollemi Pine

Biology / Biotechnology

created 23 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UNSW students have sequenced the chloroplast genome of the ancient Wollemi Pine - a world first that could reveal how a "dinosaur" of the tree kingdom survived 200 million years of shifting ...


TGen analysis identifies biomarkers for diabetic kidney failure

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers using a DNA analysis tool developed by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and UCLA have identified genetic markers that could help treat chronic kidney disease among diabetics.


The global dynamics and spread of Hepatitis C virus 1a and 1b: A phylogeographical analysis

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research published this week in PLoS Medicine finds that the global spread of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) coincided with widespread use of transfused blood and with the expansion of intravenous drug use but slowed before wholes ...


Privacy concerns could limit benefits from real-time data analysis, researcher says

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Society will be unable to take full advantage of real-time data analysis technologies that might improve health, reduce traffic congestion and give scientists new insights into human behavior until it resolves questions about ...


Further spread of Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Uganda likely due to livestock movements

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The northwards spread of human Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Uganda is likely due to the movement of infected livestock, according to new findings from an interdisciplinary research group including members from the Centre ...


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Study: Earth's polar ice sheets vulnerable to even moderate global warming

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (30) | comments 19

A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth's sea level, carried out by scientists at Princeton and Harvard universities and published in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature, employs a novel statistical approa ...



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