News tagged with natural mutation
Rare white horse prancing around in his own special genes
There was no hanky-panky involved when a fairy-tale white foal was born to two brown Standardbreds at the Four Winds Farm in New Jersey. DNA tests confirm that the snowy foal, born May 6, is a mutant, but that's nothing to ...
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Manufacturing genes to attack flu virus
An international research team has manufactured a new protein that can combat deadly flu epidemics.
May 27, 2012 |
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Chaos in the cell's command center
A defective operating system is never a good thing. Like computers, our cells depend on operating systems to drive normal functions. Gene expression programs comprise the software code our cells rely on, with each cell type ...
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Method identifies mutations that drive genetic diseases
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a new computational method allows researchers to identify which specific molecular mechanisms are altered by genetic mutations in proteins that lead to disease. And they ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Worms can evolve to survive intersex populations
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sexually reproducing species need at least two sexes in order to produce offspring, but there are many ways that nature produces different sexes. Many animals (including humans and other mammals) ...
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Stronger corn? Take it off steroids, make it all female
A Purdue University researcher has taken corn off steroids and found that the results might lead to improvements in that and other crops.
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Mutants with heterozygote disadvantage can prevent spread of transgenic animals
Genetically modified animals are designed to contain the spread of pathogens. One prerequisite for the release of such organisms into the environment is that the new gene variant does not spread uncontrollably, ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Researchers use yeast to help piece together human genome sequence jigsaw
Using yeast as a model, a team of Spanish researchers has made predictions about how individuals differ from one another by analysing genome sequences.
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Modified genetic alphabet: Chemical evolution generates bacterial strain with artificial nucleotide in its genome
(PhysOrg.com) -- Evolution is based on heredity, changes to the genetic material (mutation), and the natural selection of those organisms that are best suited to the given environmental conditions. An international ...
Jul 19, 2011 |
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How cells' sensing hairs are made
(PhysOrg.com) -- Body cells detect signals that control their behavior through tiny hairs on the cell surface called cilia. Serious diseases and disorders can result when these cilia do not work properly. New research from ...
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Rare disease reveals new path for creating stem cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- As debilitating as disease can be, sometimes it acts as a teacher. Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine have found that by mimicking a rare genetic ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 21, 2010 |
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Largest human exomes data reveals an excess of low frequency non-synonymous coding variants
In a paper appearing in Nature Genetics today, an international research group reported the resequencing and analysis of 200 human exomes, established the largest data set for human exomes published so far and reveal an exc ...
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Researchers discover genetic variants modifying breast cancer risk
Individuals with disrupting mutations in the BRCA1 gene are known to be at substantially increased risk of breast cancer throughout their lives. Now, discoveries from an international research team led by Mayo Clinic researchers ...
Sep 19, 2010 |
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Disease genes that followed the Silk Road identified
Scientists have identified key genes responsible for a severe inflammatory disease that has spread along the old silk trading routes from the Far East to the edge of Europe.
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Tibetan adaptation to high altitude occurred in less than 3,000 years
(PhysOrg.com) -- A comparison of the genomes of 50 Tibetans and 40 Han Chinese shows that ethnic Tibetans split off from the Han less than 3,000 years ago and since then rapidly evolved a unique ability to thrive at high ...
Jul 01, 2010 |
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