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Small DNA circles found outside the chromosomes in mammalian cells and tissues, including human cells

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped identify a new DNA entity in mammalian cells and provided evidence that their generation leaves behind deletions in different l ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

New type of extra-chromosomal DNA discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the University of Virginia and University of North Carolina in the US have discovered a previously unidentified type of small circular DNA molecule occurring outside ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

New imaging techniques reveal the workings of supramolecular nanomachines

Supramolecules comprising many kinds of proteins and nucleic acids are present in all living organisms. Often with precise structures and a variety of parts, these supramolecules exhibit complex movements ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Investigations show that telomerase inhibitor PinX1 is a key tumor suppressor

It's been nearly 10 years since Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) scientists Kun Ping Lu, MD, PhD and Xiao Zhen Zhou, MD, discovered PinX1, the first potent endogenous protein shown to inhibit telomerase in mammals.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research provides new kidney cancer clues

Researchers have identified a gene that is mutated in one in three patients with the most common form of renal cancer. The identification of a frequently mutated gene will provide new insights into the biology of the disease. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists reveal how biological activity is regulated in fruit fly and roundworm genomes

Scientists today published catalogs of the fruit fly and roundworm's functional genomic elements: DNA sequences in the genome that carry the instructions and determine which genes are turned on and off at various times in ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

DNA reveals Neolithic farmers' near Eastern affinities

During an international research project, scientists from the Institute of Anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the University of Adelaide worked with a number of additional partners to research the ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Biologists find genetic explanation for evolutionary change: Location

A gene's location on a chromosome plays a significant role in shaping how an organism's traits vary and evolve, according to findings by genome biologists at New York University's Center for Genomic and Systems Biology and ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ticking of cellular clock promotes seismic changes in the chromatin landscape associated with aging

Like cats, human cells have a finite number of lives-once they divide a certain number of times (thankfully, more than nine) they change shape, slow their pace, and eventually stop dividing, a phenomenon called ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 03, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Why chromosomes never tie their shoelaces

In the latest issue of the journal Nature, Miguel Godinho Ferreira, Principal Investigator at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC) in Portugal, lead a team of researchers to shed light on a paradox that has puzzled biolog ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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