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Assisted reproductive techniques alter the expression of genes that are important for metabolism

Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, finds that assisted reproductive ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Cerebral spinal fluid guides stem cell development in the brain

Cerebrospinal fluid -- the clear and watery substance that bathes the brain and spinal cord -- is much more important to brain development than previously realized.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Green tea could modify the effect of cigarette smoking on lung cancer risk

Drinking green tea could modulate the effect of smoking on lung cancer. Results of this hospital-based, randomized study conducted in Taiwan were presented at the AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Muscling in on a mystery protein: Study of brawny pigs reveals key player in the genome

(PhysOrg.com) -- For thousands of years, humans have bred pigs for desirable traits, such as more muscle and less fat in the meat. Domestication makes animals ideal models for studying how genes control physical ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Experiment of nature' examines how mother's diet may impact on child's health

Could our mother's diet at the time we are conceived set the course for our future health? This intriguing question is at the heart of a new study based on an "experiment of nature" being conducted by Wellcome Trust-funded ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

First evidence that prenatal exposure to famine may lead to persistent epigenetic changes

A study initiated by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands suggests that prenatal exposure to famine can lead to epigenetic changes ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Marsupials and humans shared same genetic imprinting 150 million years ago

Research published in Nature Genetics by a team of international scientists including the department of zoology at the University of Melbourne, Australia, has established an identical mechanism of genetic imprinting, a proc ...

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created Jul 15, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Rare Example of Darwinism Seen in Action

A research team of biologists has found experimental evidence that supports a controversial theory of genetic conflict in the reproduction of those animals that support their developing offspring through a ...

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created Jul 30, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 0


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