Genetics & Molecular Biology
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Article - Sean Gibbons - Jul 29 2011 - 9:12am
- Mutation Erases Fingerprints
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Imagine going through customs with everything in order. Passport’s okay, and all seems fine. But when your fingerprints are scanned, the customs agents are looking surprised. Apparently, you have no fingerprints. Sounds weird, right? And yet, it is exactl ...
Article - Gunnar De Winter - Aug 5 2011 - 10:19am
- 15 Years Of FDA Stalling? Anti-Science Beliefs About Genetically Engineered Salmon
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Sometimes the precautionary principle can run amok. Anti-science people who don't accept climate science use it to prevent meaningful policy actions related to the environment while anti-science people who don't accept biology block efforts to ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 24 2012 - 12:11am
- Xenokeime aus Deutschland!
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GM bacteria from Germany? Don’t panic, Captain Mainwaring, we’ve got it all under control! Yes, there is indeed a lot of worry in the air, about the potential for escape of Genetically Modified organisms into the environment. Generally, this involves cro ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Aug 8 2011 - 1:56am
- Ghost In The Machine?
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Ren é Descartes’s theory of mind-body dualism suggests the existence of a material body and an immaterial mind- parallel to one another, but capable of communication via a metaphysical LAN line. Descartes envisioned our bodies as biological locomotives, ...
Article - Sean Gibbons - Aug 7 2011 - 2:19pm
- DNA, Made In Space?
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Components of DNA have been found in several meteorites ever since the 1960’s, but the question that continually lingered was whether these components were actually made in space, or rather the result of terrestrial contamination. Now, NASA-funded researc ...
Article - Gunnar De Winter - Aug 11 2011 - 3:27am
- Supergenes And Butterfly Mimicry
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Mimicry can often be observed in nature, and several types can be discerned. One of these types is known as Müllerian mimicry (named after the German zoologist Johann Friedrich Theodor Müller), or when two or more harmful species copy each other’s warning ...
Article - Gunnar De Winter - Aug 18 2011 - 8:36am
- Why Our Heart Can't Regenerate Itself- Yet
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Why did adult human cardiac myocytes, specialized muscle cells in the heart, lose the ability found in newts and salamanders to proliferate, perhaps explaining why the human heart has little regenerative capacity? A study using cell lines and mice may ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2011 - 4:52pm
- Discovered: Key Regulator Of Heart And Blood Vessel Development (And It Can Be Manipulated)
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Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) already account for one third of all global deaths and raising, with effective heart regeneration therapies yet to be developed despite worldwide research efforts. But a new study by scientists from Oxford University and the U ...
Article - Catarina Amorim - Sep 3 2011 - 5:18pm
- New Antibiotics From Marsupials?
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Increasing resistance of pathogens to antibiotics is an important issue. The hunt for new antibiotics/antimicrobials is on. For example, the 10X’20 Initiative aims to develop 10 new antimicrobial drugs by 2020. But where will these new drugs come from? Th ...
Article - Gunnar De Winter - Aug 31 2011 - 12:41pm
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