News tagged with genomic imprinting
Nurture has greater effect than nature, says study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nurture could have an even greater effect than originally thought, according to a University of Manchester study that is set to shake up the ‘nature versus nurture’ debate.
May 28, 2009 |
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Study reveals dynamic changes in gene regulation in human stem cells
A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of California (UC) San Diego has discovered a new type of dynamic change in human stem cells.
May 03, 2012 |
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'Iceman Oetzi' lived for a while after arrow wound
Oetzi, the 5,300-year-old "Iceman" mummy of the Alps, lived for some time after being shot in the back by an arrow, scientists said on Tuesday after using forensic technology to analyse his preserved blood.
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May 02, 2012 |
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Adam's rib, revisited: Evolutionary divergence of mammalian sex chromosomes
(Phys.org) -- Males and females... Mars and Venus... XY and XX chromosomes -- all are common memes. At the same time, the evolution of therian (placental and marsupial) sex chromosomes is less widely understood. ...
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Maternal gene causes more piglets to be born
A sow gives birth to more piglets if the DIO3 gene from its mother is expressed instead of the same gene inherited from its father. This is shown during research conducted by the Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre in Wageningen ...
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Express yourself: How zygotes sort out imprinted genes
Writing in the February 17, 2012 issue of the journal Cell, researchers at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Toronto Western Research Institute peel a ...
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Without second wave of brown fat, young mice can't live without mama
For all those who have wondered where they'd be without their mothers, a study reported in the February Cell Metabolism puts a whole new spin on the question. Mice whose mothers pass along a mutant copy of a single imprin ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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The genographic project confirms humans migrated out of Africa through Arabia
Evolutionary history shows that human populations likely originated in Africa, and the Genographic Project, the most extensive survey of human population genetic data to date, suggests where they went next. ...
Nov 02, 2011 |
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'Imprinted' developmental genes gain new roles in adult stem cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- The repair of tissues damaged by injury or illness relies on the ability of adult stem cells to grow and self-renew. But this ability needs to be tightly controlled; if regulation is lost, the stem cells ...
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Ultrasensitive particles offer new way to find cancer
About 10 years ago, scientists discovered a new type of genetic material called microRNA, which appears to turn genes on or off inside a cell. More recently, they found that these genetic snippets often go ...
Aug 31, 2011 |
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Boosting research into new drugs: 'Smart materials' make proteins form crystals
Scientists have developed a new method to make proteins form crystals using 'smart materials' that remember the shape and characteristics of the molecule. The technique, reported today in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Jun 20, 2011 |
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