Advocates of proactive policing model argue that stopping and searching law abiding citizens is a minor inconvenience. However, researchers from Florida State University have found it might actually be getting under the skin ...
Social Sciences
Dec 18, 2018
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Researchers at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, have discovered a key to embryonic stem (ES) cell rejuvenation in a gene -- Zscan4 -- as reported in the March 24, 2010, online ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 24, 2010
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Blackbirds live longer in cities than in forests. But their telomeres, repetitive stretches of DNA at the ends of the chromosomes, show that these city birds have a much poorer health status than their rural cousins. These ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 21, 2018
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When a human cell divides, its daughter cells should each receive an identical copy of the mother cell's genome. Occasionally mistakes occur during this process, generating mutations that can give rise to cancer. To avoid ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 20, 2015
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Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have further uncovered the secrets of telomeres, the caps that protect the ends of our chromosomes. They discovered that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 30, 2017
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In the dominoes that make up human cells, researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have traced another step of the process that stops cells from becoming cancerous.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 17, 2010
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The natural ends of chromosomes appear alarmingly like broken DNA, much as a snapped spaghetti strand is difficult to distinguish from its intact counterparts. Yet every cell in our bodies must have a way of differentiating ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 15, 2024
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A new study led by Claus M. Azzalin, group leader at Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes- iMM and published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows, for the first time, that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 19, 2022
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Chromosomes - long, linear DNA molecules – are capped at their ends with special DNA structures called telomeres and an assortment of proteins, which together act as a protective sheath. Telomeres are maintained through ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 21, 2012
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The historic NASA Twins Study investigated identical twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly and provided new information on the health effects of spending time in space.
Space Exploration
Nov 25, 2020
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