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Chemists see first building blocks to life on Earth

Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed an experiment that sheds new and fascinating light on how life on Earth might have begun.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (25) | comments 13

Are genes our destiny? 'Hidden' code in DNA evolves more rapidly than genetic code, scientists discover

A "hidden" code linked to the DNA of plants allows them to develop and pass down new biological traits far more rapidly than previously thought, according to the findings of a groundbreaking study by researchers ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (27) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Scientists develop universal DNA reader to advance faster, cheaper sequencing efforts

Arizona State University scientists have come up with a new twist in their efforts to develop a faster and cheaper way to read the DNA genetic code. They have developed the first, versatile DNA reader that ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (22) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

A new read on DNA sequencing

A new technique for reading the DNA code relies on a fundamental property of matter known as quantum tunneling, which operates at the subatomic scale. The current paper shows that single bases inside a DNA ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 14, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover new genetic sub-code

In a multidisciplinary approach, Professor Yves Barral, from the Biology Department at ETH Zurich and the computer scientists Dr. Gina Cannarozzi and Professor Gaston Gonnet, from the Computer Science Department of ETH Zurich ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 16, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New Yorkers beware! New cockroach hits the Big Apple

New Yorkers are used to fighting each other for space, but there may be a new contender in town according to a Rockefeller study that appears to have uncovered a new species of cockroach.

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (20) | comments 3

Enzyme corrects more than one million faults in DNA replication

Scientists from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine (IGMM) at the University of Edinburgh have discovered an enzyme that corrects the most common mistake in mammalian DNA.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Graduate student finds a 'start/stop switch' for retroviruses

A University of British Columbia doctoral candidate has discovered a previously unknown mechanism for silencing retroviruses, segments of genetic material that can lead to fatal mutations in a cell's DNA.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

DNA-Based Assembly Line for Nano-Construction of New Biosensors, Solar Cells (w/Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Building on the idea of using DNA to link up nanoparticles — particles measuring mere billionths of a meter — scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 3

Genetic code used to engineer a living protein

Yale University researchers have successfully re-engineered the protein-making machinery in bacteria, a technical tour de force that promises to revolutionize the study and treatment of a variety of diseases.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanotube growth theory experimentally confirmed

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, has experimentally confirmed a theory by Rice University Professor Boris Yakobson that foretold a pair of interesting properties about nanotube ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research team creates simple chemical system that mimics DNA

A team of Scripps Research scientists has created a new analog to DNA that assembles and disassembles itself without the need for enzymes. Because the new system comprises components that might reasonably be expected in a ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 12, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 5

Researchers extend genetic code of an entire animal

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers Sebastian Greiss and Jason Chin of the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, have succeeded in manipulating the DNA of a nematode such that a ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Autopsy study links prostate cancer to single rogue cell

that's all it takes to begin a series of events that lead to metastatic cancer. Now, Johns Hopkins experts have tracked how the cancer process began in 33 men with prostate cancer who died of the disease. Culling information ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Researchers discover evolutionary event underlying the origin of dachshunds, dogs with short legs

A single evolutionary event appears to explain the short, curved legs that characterize all of today's dachshunds, corgis, basset hounds and at least 16 other breeds of dogs, a team led by the National Human ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2