News: [Entry posted at 30th April 2009 07:06 PM GMT] When two plants are grafted together, they share much more than water and minerals: They also swap genetic material, according to a study published in tomorrow's (May 1) issue of ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 29th April 2009 05:40 PM GMT] After a three-year moratorium on human stem cell research, South Korean officials gave the go-ahead to a new research project involving human eggs today (Apr. 29) provided that the research meets certain provisos.
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News: [Entry posted at 29th April 2009 12:01 AM GMT] Arachnophobes beware: Researchers have discovered a male spider in the Judean foothills of Israel with a sadistic sexual perversion. Males of the aptly named Harpactea sadistica spider jab their spiked copulatory organs into the body walls of ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 27th April 2009 05:24 AM GMT] The giant meteor that crashed off the coast of Mexico around 65 million years ago hit the Earth too early to explain the dinosaurs' demise and was too tame to even hurt a protist, according to a new study published today (Apr. 27) in the ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 23rd April 2009 07:23 PM GMT] Following a final report from a prominent South Korean university, Science formally retracted a paper today (Apr. 23) from Korean researcher Kim Tae-kook purportedly reporting a new technology to identify drug targets called magnetism-based ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 23rd April 2009 05:00 PM GMT] Researchers have attained the holy grail of cellular reprogramming: inducing pluripotency without using any DNA-based materials. Using only a cocktail of purified proteins and a chemical additive, investigators have generated induced pluripotent ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 22nd April 2009 05:04 PM GMT] The British government is investing £750 million ($1.1 billion) to bolster the ailing biotech industry and other commercial science and technology sectors.
Image: flickr/MjuboyThe new Strategic Investment Fund "will encourage exports, support ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 16th April 2009 05:01 PM GMT] Researchers have discovered a cellular mechanism that helps nocturnal mammals see in the dark. Mice, cats, deer, lemurs, and other mammals that are active at night remodel the DNA within their eyes to turn photoreceptor cells into light-collecting ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 9th April 2009 04:32 PM GMT] Five leading British research universities were ordered yesterday (Apr. 8) by the government to reveal information about experiments involving primates after a three-year battle with an animal rights organization.
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News: [Entry posted at 9th April 2009 04:26 PM GMT] A former assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston falsified and fabricated data in a study of sleep apnea, the Office of Research Integrity ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 8th April 2009 04:10 PM GMT] A senior-level tenured neuroscientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., is teetering on the edge of closing his lab after Salk administrators pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding that was tied to a ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 6th April 2009 10:32 PM GMT] Autism and schizophrenia may be two sides of the same genomic coin. Copy number variations in the exact same genes determine whether patients suffer from one condition or the other, according to data presented on Friday (Apr. 3) at the ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 3rd April 2009 09:00 PM GMT] Researchers have for the first time identified a gene that boosts fertility in humans. A single amino acid substitution in a gene linked with cystic fibrosis may be responsible for the differential reproductive success of some men living in a ... Click to continue
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