Did a relatively small number of people from Siberia who trekked across a Bering Strait land bridge some 12,000 years ago give rise to the native peoples of…
Developmental regulator genes are responsible for the activation of many ESC differentiation-pathways and, as such, they are a fundamental key to understand…
It was drawn up by the Biosecurity Workgroup, which was inaugurated for this purpose by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The code was…
An international collaboration led by researchers in the US and South Africa today announced the first genome sequence of an extensively drug resistant (XDR)…
The distance? A minuscule 1.803 Ångstroms, which is on the order of a billionth of the thickness of a human hair.The chemists weren't driven by the Guinness…
When you meet your boss's husband, Harvey, at the office holiday party, then bump into him an hour later over the onion dip, will you remember his name? Yes,…
Dr Tara Sutherland and her group from CSIRO Entomology are looking at silks produced by other insects and the results of their recent work have been published…
Based on the literature on some twenty known trinucleotide repeat diseases and their knowledge of the mechanisms governing somatic mutation, the team has…
Writing in the Inderscience publication International Journal of Environment and Waste Management, the team explains how bacteria that grow on particles in a…
Testing to detect any possible risk of cardiac toxicity induced by pharmaceuticals is crucial during the preclinical R&D stage. PhysioStim has solid and…
Newly launched nerve cells in a growing embryo must chart their course to distant destinations, and many of the means they use to navigate have yet to surface….
The genomic sequencing and analysis of the termite gut microbes by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), the California Institute of…
Photosynthesis in plants relies upon the efficient collection of sunlight. This process can work even at low levels of sunlight, when plants are in the shade…
Buck and colleagues Michael Petrascheck and Xiaolan Ye report in the November 22, 2007, issue of the journal Nature, that the antidepressant drug mianserin can…
In recent years, scientists have discovered that biological clocks help organize a dizzying array of biochemical processes in the body. Despite a number of…
A team from the Trinity College Dublin and the Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK), led by Dr Arpad Palfi and Dr Jane Farrar of the Smurfit Institute of Genetics,…
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