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Scientists Improve Transgenic 'Enviropigs'
March 7, 2013 A new line of transgenic pigs can digest phosphorus more efficiently. Researchers say the new line is healthy and can pass the transgenic trait to new ... > full story -
Key Developmental Mechanism in Plants Explained for First Time
March 7, 2013 In simple animals like the fruit fly and more recently in plants and mammals, scientists have been able to identify some of the principal players in the developmental symphony. Scientists have now ... > full story -
Genomic Screening for Improved Public Health
March 7, 2013 In 10 years' time, routine preventive health care for adults may include genetic testing. As genomic testing prepares to enter the realm of general medical care, an interdisciplinary team of ... > full story -
Researchers Find Molecular Switch Turning on Self-Renewal of Liver Damage
March 7, 2013 The liver is one of the few organs in our body that can regenerate itself, but how it occurs is a biological mystery. New research from Denmark has identified a protein complex that act to switch on ... > full story -
Cancer-Promoting Protein Is Found to Also Suppress Cell Growth
March 7, 2013 The cancer-causing oncogene SRSF1, first discovered through its role in splicing, is now shown also to activate cell-growth arrest, or senescence. In states of ribosomal stress or overexpression of ... > full story -
Dual Systems Key to Keeping Chromosomes Intact
March 7, 2013 Scientists have discovered how two different structural apparatuses collaborate to protect repetitive DNA when it is at its most vulnerable -- while it is being unzipped for ... > full story -
Persistence Pays Off in Solving Hemophilia Mystery, Showing Curiosity Drives Discovery
March 7, 2013 A medical researcher has found the third and final piece in the genetic puzzle of hemophilia B Leyden, more than 20 years after he discovered the first two pieces. The results explain how more than ... > full story -
Generations of Cloned Mice With Normal Lifespans Created: 25th Generation and Counting
March 7, 2013 Using the technique that created Dolly the sheep, researchers have identified a way to produce healthy mouse clones that live a normal lifespan and can be sequentially cloned indefinitely. ... > full story -
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Molecular Key to Exhaustion Following Sleep Deprivation
March 7, 2013 Scientists have identified one of the molecular players in this process has been identified – at least in nematode round worms. Scientists report that even in Caenorhabditis elegans, a tiny ... > full story -
Light Shed on Ancient Origin of Life
March 7, 2013 Researchers discovered important genetic clues about the history of microorganisms called archaea and the origins of life itself in the first ever study of its kind. Results of their study shed light ... > full story
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