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The Human Genome in 3-D

Saturday, October 10th, 2009 - 14:18:55 - Anuradha Menon

Unfurled, the human genome would contain approximately six feet of DNA. Amazingly, all of that length is packed into a cell nucleus about three...

Indian Ancestry Revealed

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 - 09:13:35 - Anuradha Menon

The population of India was founded on two ancient groups that are as genetically distinct from each other as they are from other Asians, according...

Cells Go Fractal

Monday, September 7th, 2009 - 10:04:43 - Ehud Rattner

The maths behind the rugged beauty of a coastline may help to keep cell biology in order, say researchers in Germany. Fractals — rough shapes that...

The DNA Instruction Manual
Monday, September 7th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
Code for Life: Beginning more than three and a half billion years ago, a tiny, primitive molecule encoded instructions deep...

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Gorilla HIV Makes Leap to Humans

Monday, August 3rd, 2009 - 18:01:13 - Ehud Rattner

A new strain of HIV has jumped from gorillas to humans. So far, only one person, a 62-year-old French woman from Cameroon, has been found to be...

DNA Barcodes for Plants a Step Closer

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 - 14:06:48 - Ehud Rattner

Biologists have taken a major step forward in their plans to 'barcode' every species on the planet. A database of barcode genetic sequences could...

DNA Transcription and Protein Assembly
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
Proteins are organic compounds made of amino acids arranged in a linear chain. The amino acids in a polymer chain are joined...

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Portable DNA Purifier for Poor Countries

Friday, July 10th, 2009 - 16:09:36 - Anuradha Menon

A standard bicycle pump is all that's required to power a DNA purifying kit, designed by Catherine Klapperich and her students at Boston University...

Orangutans May Be The Closest Human Relative

Thursday, June 25th, 2009 - 14:22:23 - Anuradha Menon

Orangutans, not chimpanzees, are the closest living relatives to humans, a controversial new study contends. The authors base their conclusion on a...

Tigers Tracked by Their Scat

Monday, June 22nd, 2009 - 16:11:32 - Ehud Rattner

Hot on the heels of a study that used feces to track penguin populations from space, researchers in India are reporting that DNA from tiger poop can...

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