News: [Entry posted at 29th June 2009 09:35 PM GMT] A scattered array of DNA acquired via horizontal transfer can co-evolve into a well-tuned, efficient genetic network to maximize an organism's fitness, a new study finds. Reporting... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 29th June 2009 03:52 PM GMT] A fusion protein that ferries a healthy version of a bone-related enzyme gone awry has shown early clinical success in treating a rare bone disorder with no known therapy, researchers reported earlier this month at the Endocrine Society's... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 23rd June 2009 09:26 PM GMT] The French immunologist Jean Dausset, who won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of human leukocyte antigens (HLAs), key components of the human immune system, died on June 6 in Mallorca, Spain, where he had lived for the past two years. He was... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 23rd June 2009 03:55 PM GMT] Only a couple of the former University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) faculty members who challenged their terminations made in the aftermath of last year's Hurricane Ike have won their appeals in what some are calling "show trials," although some... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 22nd June 2009 05:06 PM GMT] Researchers claim to have the first direct evidence of a century-old idea that using tools changes the way the human brain perceives the size and configuration of our body parts, according to a... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 18th June 2009 07:03 PM GMT] Science is a story -- a story about ideas, but also a story about the remarkable people who devote their lives to unraveling the wonders of nature. Scientists themselves, however, rarely have a vessel to impart their personal wisdoms since the main... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 18th June 2009 02:20 PM GMT] Everybody, yeah.Rock your body, yeah.Everybody, yeah.Rock your body right.Snowball's back, alright.
Snowball, the dancing cockatoo of YouTube fame, made an encore performance last Saturday (June... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 17th June 2009 10:44 PM GMT] New York has become the first and only state to opt to pay women for eggs donated for human embryonic stem cell research. The Empire State Stem Cell Board (ESSCB), which oversees New York's $600 million stem cell... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 17th June 2009 04:04 PM GMT] A single base pair change that turned a colorful bird entirely black probably guided the formation of a new species, researchers report in the August issue of The... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 16th June 2009 03:26 PM GMT] The excitement surrounding cellular reprogramming and the possibility of federal funding for human embryonic stem cell (ESC) research in the US could be overshadowing another promising therapeutic source of stem cells: those derived via... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 12th June 2009 04:47 PM GMT] As young assistant professors in the Harvard biology department of the 1950s and 60s, the eminent biologists James Watson and ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 9th June 2009 04:02 PM GMT] Many of the unsequenced gaps in the human genome arise because their DNA sequences cannot be read by the bacteria used in traditional sequencing methods, according to a paper published last week in... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 4th June 2009 05:08 PM GMT] New findings add a surprising twist to the already complex mechanism that determines whether reptile embryos develop to be males or females. An egg-laying lizard found in the hills of southeastern Australia controls the sex of its young through the... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 1st June 2009 08:10 PM GMT] A leading American faculty organization is formally investigating the mass termination of tenured and tenure-track professors on grounds of financial exigency made by the University of Texas System and its Medical Branch in Galveston in the wake of... Click to continue
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