Genetics
Why skin cells are skin cells and not neurons
A good helping of Carl Sagan and David Attenborough got me interested in science and the natural world as a child.
Oct 29, 2014
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Genetics
Unsuspected gene found frequently mutated in colorectal, endometrial cancers
Scientists say they have identified in about 20 percent of colorectal and endometrial cancers a genetic mutation that had been overlooked in recent large, comprehensive gene searches. With this discovery, the altered gene, ...
Oct 26, 2014
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Diabetes
Study of identical twins reveals type 2 diabetes clues
By studying identical twins, researchers from Lund University in Sweden have identified mechanisms that could be behind the development of type 2 diabetes. This may explain cases where one identical twin develops type 2 diabetes ...
Oct 6, 2014
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Genetics
DNA 'bias' may keep some diseases in circulation, biologists show
It's an early lesson in genetics: we get half our DNA from Mom, half from Dad.
Oct 2, 2014
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Genetics
Big data and full-genome analysis not all they're cracked up to be
Walter Gilbert won the Nobel Prize in 1980 in Chemistry for his contribution to sequence DNA, or "determination of base sequences in a nucleic acid". Mohit Kumar Jolly, researcher at Rice University and contributor to The ...
Sep 23, 2014
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Other
What's in your porcini packet? You may find a new species ... or three
Mycologists – scientists who study fungi – estimate there are up to five million species of fungi on Earth. Of these, only about 2%, or 100,000 species, have been formally described. So where are the other 98% of fungi ...
Sep 17, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers develop improved means of detecting mismatched DNA
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have identified a highly sensitive means of analyzing very tiny amounts of DNA. The discovery, they say, could increase the ability of forensic scientists to match genetic material in some criminal ...
Sep 15, 2014
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Genetics
Throwing a loop to silence gene expression
All human cells contain essentially the same DNA sequence – their genetic information. How is it possible that shapes and functions of cells in the different parts of the body are so different? While every cell's DNA contains ...
Sep 2, 2014
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Genetics
Researchers use new technique to shed light on inherited diseases
In 1957, Conrad Waddington published a landmark essay collection that explained a concept he called "the epigenetic landscape."
Sep 2, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
Finding keys to glioblastoma therapeutic resistance
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found one of the keys to why certain glioblastomas – the primary form of a deadly brain cancer – are resistant to drug therapy. The answer ...
Aug 26, 2014
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