Items tagged with biology

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First 24 Hours of an Embryo's Cells Friday, October 10th, 2008 - 18:10:56 - Anuradha Menon Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] have generated a digital zebrafish embryo - the first complete developmental... read more

Faster Diagnostic Test for Rare Leukemia Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 - 10:01:28 - Anuradha Menon A new twist on a well-known cell sorting technique may allow physicians to diagnose rare leukemias in hours instead of weeks, according to a study by... read more

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 Announced Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 - 07:00:44 - Iddo Genuth The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008 jointly to Osamu Shimomura, Marine Biological... read more

Bacterial Crisis Command Centre Revealed Sunday, October 5th, 2008 - 12:19:08 - Anuradha Menon A bacteria cell's 'crisis command centre' has been observed for the first time swinging into action to protect the cell from external stress and... read more

Scientists Find Gene for Improved Rice Yield Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 - 19:35:49 - Iddo Genuth A team of scientists, including Hong Ma, Penn State professor of biology, has identified a gene in rice that controls the size and weight of rice... read more

MIT Engineers Mass-Produce Smell Receptors Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 - 09:08:47 - Iddo Genuth MIT biological engineers have found a way to mass-produce smell receptors in the laboratory, an advance that paves the way for "artificial... read more

Pigs Bred With Cystic Fibrosis Sunday, September 28th, 2008 - 13:53:41 - Ehud Rattner Cystic Fibrosis (CF) continues to be a lethal disease for humans despite the identification of the problematic gene two decades ago. Many humans born... read more

Amazon Ants are of the Oldest Lineage Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 - 12:07:54 - Anuradha Menon A new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest by University of Texas at Austin evolutionary biologist... read more

'Rosetta Stone' For Understanding Evolution Saturday, September 6th, 2008 - 15:18:08 - Anuradha Menon Yale molecular and evolutionary biologists in collaboration with Department of Energy scientists produced the full genome sequence of Trichoplax, one... read more

Algorithm to Investigate Origins of Life Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 - 14:02:48 - Anuradha Menon Scientists at Penn State have developed a new computational method that they say will help them to understand how life began on Earth. The team’s... read more

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