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Cockroaches join sugar-free craze

CHANGING TASTES: Sugar-free diets aren't just making headlines in the human world. Cockroaches have joined the anti-sugar trend.

5 hours ago from ABC Science

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News in Brief: Giant genomes felled by DNA sequencing advances

Complete genetic blueprints collected for several conifer species

Wed 22 May 13 from ScienceNews

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'Most exciting breakthrough in IVF treatment in 30 years' could triple number of births

Thousands of infertile couples could benefit from a new IVF procedure that can dramatically improve the success rate of having a baby through artificial reproduction.    

Fri 17 May 13 from The Independent

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Breeding programs may send disease into wild

SPECIES RECOVERY: Captive breeding programs of endangered animals have the potential to send disease out into vulnerable animal communities, a new study shows.

Thu 23 May 13 from ABC Science

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Single Gene Leads to Longer Lifespan Across Species

Mitochondria are the cell's workhorse, transforming the calories we eat into useable energy. They have also been the subject of lots of scrutiny over longevity, since lifespan is intimately ...

Wed 22 May 13 from Discover Magazine

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Taming suspect gene reverses schizophrenia-like abnormalities in mice

Scientists have reversed behavioral and brain abnormalities in adult mice that resemble some features of schizophrenia by restoring normal expression to a suspect gene that is over-expressed ...

Wed 22 May 13 from Medical Xpress

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ScienceShot: Carnivorous Plant Ejects Junk DNA

Humped bladderwort's genome is only 3% non-gene, the inverse of humans

Sun 12 May 13 from Science Now

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Minus environment, patterns still emerge: Computational study tracks E. coli cells' regulatory mechanisms

Environment is not the only factor in shaping regulatory patterns—and it might not even be the primary factor, according to a new Rice University study that looks at how cells' protein networks ...

Tue 21 May 13 from Phys.org

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Breakthrough on Huntington's disease

Researchers at Lund University have succeeded in preventing very early symptoms of Huntington's disease, depression and anxiety, by deactivating the mutated huntingtin protein in the brains ...

16 hours ago from Medical Xpress

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Body's clock linked to depression

Gene activity in the brain suggests off-kilter circadian rhythms

Tue 14 May 13 from ScienceNews

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