Items tagged with genetic

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Father's Sperm Is Much More Complex Monday, June 15th, 2009 - 15:55:06 - Ehud Rattner It was long believed that conception does not involve a meeting of equals. The egg is a relatively large, impressive biological factory compared with... read more

Genetic Risk Factor for Testicular Cancer Thursday, June 4th, 2009 - 12:34:06 - Anuradha Menon Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have uncovered variation around two genes that are associated with an increased risk... read more

Genetic Risk Factor for Testicular Cancer? Monday, June 1st, 2009 - 14:01:45 - Ehud Rattner Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have uncovered variation around two genes that are associated with an increased risk... read more

Corals' 'Internal Communication' Process Friday, May 29th, 2009 - 10:42:07 - Anuradha Menon Corals, it appears, have a genetic complexity that rivals that of humans, have sophisticated systems of biological communication that are being... read more

What is the Point in Patenting Genes? Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 - 09:19:08 - Anuradha Menon Earlier this month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit that challenges the right of Myriad Genetics to patent a genetic test... read more

Ocean Microbes Yield Informative RNAs Friday, May 15th, 2009 - 16:17:00 - Anuradha Menon An ingenious new method of obtaining marine microbe samples while preserving the microbes' natural gene expression has yielded an unexpected boon:... read more

Molecule of Life Emerges from Slime Thursday, May 14th, 2009 - 14:17:32 - Anuradha Menon Creating life in the primordial soup may have been easier than we thought. Two essential elements of RNA have finally been made from scratch, under... read more

10-Year Study of African Genetic Data Friday, May 1st, 2009 - 18:14:06 - Anuradha Menon African, American, and European researchers working in a 10-year collaboration have released the largest-ever study of African genetic data — more... read more

Genetic Switch Key to New Antibiotics Class Saturday, April 18th, 2009 - 14:03:59 - Anuradha Menon Researchers have determined the structure of a key genetic mechanism at work in bacteria, including some that are deadly to humans, in an important... read more

New Way to See Single RNA Molecules in Cells Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 - 16:36:09 - Anuradha Menon Biomedical engineers have developed a new type of probe that allows them to visualize single ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules within live cells more... read more

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