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[Entry posted at 31st May 2009 06:18 PM GMT]
For the first time, researchers have combined gene therapy and cellular reprogramming technologies in human cells to correct a genetic defect. After taking skin and hair cells from patients with a rare genetic disorder and fixing the aberrant ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 29th May 2009 01:59 PM GMT]
Geckos get around. They're among the most diverse and widely distributed lizards, populating every continent except Antarctica and inhabiting everything from tropical beaches and humid rainforests to chilly mountain ranges and arid deserts. This ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 28th May 2009 09:47 PM GMT]
Biomedical researchers don't typically rub elbows with rock-'n-roll royalty in the pages of glossy magazines. In fact, they never do. Until now.
Seal, Eric Topol, and David AgusImage: Geoffrey Beene / GQIn the June issue of ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 28th May 2009 07:02 PM GMT]
The economy is depressed, money is tight, and universities are feeling the pinch. One radical proposal for trimming budgets is to eliminate tenure-track positions, shifting faculty to part-time and full-time non-tenure-track positions. The move away ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 28th May 2009 07:00 PM GMT]
Researchers have identified a protein that plays a central and hitherto-undescribed role in glucose trafficking in humans but isn't even expressed in mice, they report in this week's Science.
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[Entry posted at 28th May 2009 05:02 PM GMT]
For the first time, human skin cells have been reprogrammed without using DNA, according to a study published online today (May 28) in Cell Stem Cell. Although further ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 27th May 2009 10:00 PM GMT]
A new theoretical model of parasite virulence published in this week's Nature puts a chink in the armor of group selection theory, the idea that organisms act ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 27th May 2009 06:01 PM GMT]
Japanese researchers have successfully generated the world's first transgenic primates capable of passing on a foreign gene to their offspring. The feat, reported in ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 27th May 2009 06:00 PM GMT]
The adaptive immune system, which can recognize, attack, and remember potentially harmful microbes, may have appeared on the evolutionary scene millions of years earlier than scientists thought. The immune system of the sea lamprey, a primitive, ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 27th May 2009 01:05 AM GMT]
Researchers have overturned the long-standing notion that lymph nodes are always necessary for launching the mammalian immune response.
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[Entry posted at 26th May 2009 02:46 PM GMT]
Francis Collins, the geneticist who led the Human Genome Project, is close to taking over the top spot at the National Institutes of Health, according to a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 24th May 2009 07:04 PM GMT]
In the distant past giant cod (1.5 meters long) ruled the North Sea. Southern oceans boiled with massive pods of right whales. Gangs of 4-meter-long porpoises cavorted off the British Isles.
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[Entry posted at 24th May 2009 07:01 PM GMT]
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in Africa are not as straightforward as such research among populations of people of European or Asian ancestry, because African populations are much more genetically diverse. But researchers studying malaria ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 21st May 2009 07:00 PM GMT]
New evidence provides clues about the role of a key sleep-related brain activity pattern in the brain: this waveform may help keep the mind asleep through nonthreatening disturbances, rather than wake it up as previous studies have suggested, a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 21st May 2009 05:13 PM GMT]
On Tuesday, the world met "Ida" -- a 47-million-year-old primate fossil touted as a "REVOLUTIONARY SCIENTIFIC FIND THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING," according to a press release. The media went berserk. ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 21st May 2009 03:48 PM GMT]
The National Institutes of Health has thrown its hat into the drug development ring with the announcement of a new program that will seek to bring drugs that treat rare and neglected diseases onto the market.
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[Entry posted at 20th May 2009 12:39 AM GMT]
Researchers have discovered the basis for the magnetic personalities of migratory ants. These social insects integrate magnetic soil nanoparticles into their antennae to help them navigate the forests of South America, according to a study published ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 15th May 2009 06:49 PM GMT]
President Barack Obama today (May 15) named New York City health chief Thomas Frieden to the top spot at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Obama praised Frieden, who spearheaded anti-smoking and cancer screening campaigns in his seven ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 15th May 2009 02:57 PM GMT]
A fungal epidemic blamed for the extinction of dozens of amphibian species has drawn the attention of researchers and conservationist alike. Microbial ecologist Reid Harris and his ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 14th May 2009 05:21 PM GMT]
The retroactive nature of the NIH's proposed guidelines on human stem cell research will exclude funding for many existing stem cell lines that were ethically created yet don't meet the stringent criteria of the proposal's technical requirements, ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 14th May 2009 05:00 PM GMT]
Conical cells on the petals of most flowering plants appear to play a much more grounding role for pollinating bees than scientists have previously assumed.
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[Entry posted at 13th May 2009 06:03 PM GMT]
The open ocean is teeming with microbial small RNAs that regulate a multitude of environmental processes ranging from carbon metabolism to nutrient acquisition, according to a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 13th May 2009 06:00 PM GMT]
The physical forces exerted by a heart beat and the blood flow it produces trigger the formation of new blood cells, according to two studies published today (May 13) in Nature and Cell.
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[Entry posted at 12th May 2009 03:46 PM GMT]
Federal investigators have confirmed reports of primate mistreatment at the largest primate research facility in the US.
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[Entry posted at 12th May 2009 02:55 PM GMT]
Strong sales to academic researchers are helping companies that provide mice, rats, and other model organisms for research weather the global economic crisis, despite a downturn in demand from pharma and biotech.
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[Entry posted at 11th May 2009 10:38 PM GMT]
Many top tier science journals are going into overdrive to publish data about the emerging swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus epidemic, compressing what is often a multi-month process into just a few days or weeks.
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[Entry posted at 11th May 2009 03:52 PM GMT]
After several months of intense scrutiny, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is considering stricter rules on managing financial conflicts among its grantees.
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[Entry posted at 11th May 2009 11:25 AM GMT]
Researchers have discovered a new category of cancer caused by chromatin recognition gone awry. An aberrant protein that binds to activated DNA-winding proteins drives up gene expression leading to unchecked cell growth, according to a ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 7th May 2009 10:29 PM GMT]
Overall, federal science fares well in President Barack Obama's recently announced FY2010 budget, but the National Institutes of Health would net a pretty paltry increase under the president's ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 7th May 2009 07:00 PM GMT]
New labeling proteins that fluoresce in the infrared spectrum allow scientists to see deep inside the body of living mammals without lifting a scalpel, according to a study published in Science tomorrow (May 8).
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[Entry posted at 7th May 2009 05:19 PM GMT]
New findings overturn a major model of where immune memory is stored. Rather than circulating throughout the body, as researchers had thought, memory T-cells actually reside in a comfortable niche in the bone marrow waiting for the next chance to ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 7th May 2009 04:27 PM GMT]
Scientific publishing giant Elsevier put out a total of six publications between 2000 and 2005 that were sponsored by unnamed pharmaceutical companies and looked like peer reviewed medical journals, but did not disclose sponsorship, the company has ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 6th May 2009 06:00 PM GMT]
Ever since 2003, when researchers found the skeletal remains of a diminutive, human-like creature--dubbed the Hobbit--on an island in Indonesia, a debate has raged over whether the find represents a new species or a just deformed population of an ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 5th May 2009 04:50 PM GMT]
Research involving non-human primates was given the go-ahead today (May 5) in an initial vote by the European Parliament, although legislators called for most basic testing on great apes to be outlawed.
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