Mar. 29, 2016 — A novel investigation of how enzymatic reactions can direct the motion and organization of microcapsules may point toward a new theory of how protocells -- the earliest biological cells -- could have ...
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Mar. 29, 2016 — Genes are not destiny in determining whether a person will suffer from depression, reports a new study. Nurture can override nature. When rats genetically bred for depression received the equivalent ...
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Mar. 24, 2016 — Extensive testing of malarial DNA found in birds, bats and other small mammals from five East African countries revealed that malaria has its roots in bird hosts. It then spread from birds to bats ...
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Mar. 24, 2016 — Genetic 'signatures' of early stage embryos confirm that our development begins to take shape as early as the second day after conception, when we are a mere four cells in size, according ...
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Mar. 24, 2016 — Humans have put yeast to work for thousands of years to make bread, beer, and wine. Wild strains of yeast are also found in the natural fermentations that are essential for chocolate and coffee ...
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Mar. 24, 2016 — A research group has become the first to demonstrate the functioning of a DNA nanomachine inside a living organism. Last summer, her team reported another achievement: the development of a DNA ...
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Mar. 24, 2016 — All multicellular organisms that reproduce sexually rely on eggs to support early life. Researchers used the tiny roundworm C. elegans as a model to better understand how eggs enable embryonic ...
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Mar. 24, 2016 — Two new gene modification methods have been developed: lsODN (long single-stranded oligodeoxynucleotide) and 2H2OP (two-hit two-oligo with plasmid). These methods use CRISPR (Clustered Regularly ...
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Mar. 23, 2016 — In a proof-of-concept study, researchers show that genetically engineered green bottle fly larvae can produce and secrete a human growth factor -- a molecule that helps promote cell growth and wound ...
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Mar. 23, 2016 — In a landmark feat of chemical synthesis, scientists have developed a 19-step process for making the naturally occurring compound phorbol in the laboratory, in quantities that are useful for ...
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Mar. 23, 2016 — What does Brad Pitt have in common with a fruit fly? His Hollywood hairstyles cover a prominent cowlick -- the swirl of hair that that is caused by a patterning mechanism also active in our ...
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Mar. 23, 2016 — Using component parts, namely fats and proteins, scientists build a minimal model of the cell surface in a test tube. This reconstruction creates a crucial new tool that researchers can use to test ...
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Mar. 23, 2016 — It turns out that the rigid 'line in the sand' over which the human sex chromosomes -- the Y and X -- go to avoid crossing over is a bit blurrier than previously thought. Contrary to the ...
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Mar. 23, 2016 — A method using acoustic waves in a microfluidic device to rotate single particles, cells or organisms will allow researchers to take three dimensional images with only a cell phone, a new report ...
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Mar. 23, 2016 — Researchers have discovered clock genes in plants that regulate the circadian rhythm. The circadian clock is considered to consist of mutual regulation between multiple genes, but this complicated ...
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Mar. 23, 2016 — Scientists have shown that the foam made by Trinidadian frogs represents a new, non-toxic antibiotic delivery system that may help to prevent infections. Researchers have been analysing the frog ...
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Mar. 22, 2016 — Think your DNA is all human? Think again. And a new discovery suggests it's even less human than scientists previously thought. Nineteen new pieces of non-human DNA -- left by viruses that first ...
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Mar. 22, 2016 — A parasitic flatworm that infects hundreds of millions of people in the developing world is able to survive in the bloodstream for decades by constantly renewing its skin - a mechanism that could ...
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Mar. 22, 2016 — An international team of scientists used an amplification technique to sequence the genomes of two divergent Plasmodium malaria species from miniscule volumes of chimpanzee blood to find clues about ...
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Mar. 21, 2016 — Understanding the sequence-structure-function relationship -- the 'protein folding problem' -- is one of the great, unsolved problems in physical chemistry, and is of inestimable scientific ...
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A World Map of Neanderthal and Denisovan Ancestry in Modern Humans
Biological Mechanism Passes on Long-Term Epigenetic 'Memories'
More Ancient Viruses Lurk in Our DNA Than We Thought
New Findings in Humans Provide Encouraging Foundation for Upcoming AIDS Vaccine Clinical Trial
New Catalyst Is Three Times Better at Splitting Water
Ancient Super-Eruptions in Yellowstone Hotspot Track 'Significantly Larger' Than Expected
Researchers Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Sustainable Concrete
Efforts to Curtail World Temps Will Almost Surely Fail
Giant 'Kraken' Lair Discovered: Cunning Sea Monster That Preyed on Ichthyosaurs
How Diet Shaped Human Evolution
Australopithecus Fossils Found East of the Great Rift Valley
Creation of Minimal Cell With Just the Genes Needed for Independent Life
Moving Microswimmers Using Magnetic Vortices
City Birds Are Smarter Than Country Birds
Could Ireland’s Ecosystems Cope If We Introduced St. Patrick’s Scaly Foes?
Unique Beak Evolved With Tool Use in New Caledonian Crow
The Linguistics of Signifying Time: The Human Gesture as Clock
Solving the Mystery of the Tully Monster
