(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 can apply this ...
Biotechnology
Jan 19, 2012
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Of course, pet owners may base their choice of animal companions on personality but – as with humans – appearance may play a large part in the selection of partner. For reasons on which the reader is free to speculate, ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 30, 2012
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In a study with implications for efforts to halt the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, researchers at Princeton have identified a new, troubling path that some bacteria take toward resistance.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 26, 2019
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A University of Utah study produced new mathematical support for a theory that explains why men in some cultures often feed and care for their sisters' children: where extramarital sex is common and accepted, a man's genes ...
Other
Nov 27, 2012
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(AP) -- The U.S. government's biosecurity advisers said Friday they support publishing research studies showing how scientists made new easy-to-spread forms of bird flu because the studies, now revised, don't reveal details ...
Other
Mar 30, 2012
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Natural evolution is a slow process that relies on the gradual accumulation of genetic mutations. In recent years, scientists have found ways to speed up the process on a small scale, allowing them to rapidly create new proteins ...
Biotechnology
Dec 30, 2021
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A team of researchers compared the genomes of woolly mammoths with modern day elephants to find out what made woolly mammoths unique, both as individuals and as a species. The investigators report April 7 in the journal Current ...
Evolution
Apr 7, 2023
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(Phys.org)—A tiny capsule invented at a UCLA lab could go a long way toward improving cancer treatment.
Bio & Medicine
Feb 6, 2013
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers have found revolutionary evidence that an evolutionary phenomenon at work in complex organisms is at play in their single-celled counterparts, too.
Evolution
Dec 3, 2018
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The persistence of heritable disease raises an evolutionary paradox. When DNA goes awry, and a harmful mutation sprouts up that affects survival, why aren't these simply purged from a population over generations?
Evolution
Jun 28, 2016
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