Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Hereditary Factors in Severe Obesity and Eating Behavior

This result was published in Nature Genetics on January 18th 2009 by a research group led by CNRS senior researcher Philippe Froguel and Inserm researcher…

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Mice and Humans Share Similar Olfactory Preferences

Published on January 16, 2009 in the journal Plos One, their work confirms that olfactory preferences are not solely determined by experience or culture, but…

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Key Discovery on Invasive Ants’ Unusual Cooperation Strategy

Researchers discovered how some species that successfully invade large extensions of land have an unusual way of doing so: they cooperate with other colonies…

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New Hope for Rabies Eradication in Africa

In the current issue of Journal of General Virology a team of scientists from Africa, USA and France report that within this common ancestry there are distinct…

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New Genes Linked to Severe Obesity Risk in Kids and Adults

European and Canadian researchers have, for the first time, drawn a map of genetic risk factors that can lead to two forms of severe obesity: early-onset…

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Infidelity Boosts Sperm Speed and Size, Study Reveals

Increased competition leads to both faster and larger sperms, and the research findings now being published in the scientific journal PNAS, Proceedings of the…

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MRSA’s ‘weak point’ visualised by scientists

Now, armed with detailed information about the structure of this enzyme, researchers hope to design new drugs that will seek it out and disable it, providing a…

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Culture-Driven Language Evolution: A Study on Genetics and Speech

By modelling the ways in which genes for language might have evolved alongside language itself, the study showed that genetic adaptation to language would be…

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Study Reveals Risks of Chemicals in Infant Liquid Medicines

Research published today (Jan 20) ahead of print in the Fetal & Neonatal Edition of Archives of Disease in Childhood documents the non-drug ingredients…

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Heart Disease Mutation Affects 60 Million Worldwide

Moreover, the problem is set to rise: it is predicted that by 2010 India’s population will suffer approximately 60% of the world’s heart disease.Today, an…

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Why you can’t hurry love

The study, by researchers at UCL (University College London), University of Warwick and LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science), shows that…

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European evolutionary biologists rally behind Richard Dawkins' Extended Phenotype

The EP states that the genes of an organism can be expressed beyond its immediate biological boundary, extending for example to birds' nests, or the behaviour…

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Unlocking Nature’s Rhythm: How Internal Clocks Shape Life

Many organisms live out their lives on schedules established by internal clock mechanisms, generated by the combined action of multiple regulatory networks…

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New Insights Into Indoleamine Enzymes’ Biological Activity

New pathways for the biological activity of two little-understood enzymes emerge from a theoretical investigationThe enzymes, indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO)…

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Parasites in the genome – A molecular parasite could play an important role in human evolution

The so-called LINE-1 retrotransposon is a mobile genetic element that can multiply and insert itself into chromosomal DNA at many different locations. This…

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Worms in Space: A Unique ISS Mission in Kibo Laboratory

The worms will spend about two weeks in the Japanese Kibo laboratory onboard the International Space Station (ISS) before returning to earth.Dr Nathaniel…

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