Genetics News
The Sound of Sterility
Mon 30 Jan 12 from IEEE Spectrum
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Questions hang over red-wine chemical
How resveratrol benefits health a matter of debate.
Thu 2 Feb 12 from Nature News
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Alzheimer's Spreads Like a Virus From Neuron to Neuron, Studies Show
Fri 3 Feb 12 from Discover Magazine
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Sex-specific behaviors traced to hormone-controlled genes in the brain
Men and women may be equals, but they often behave differently when it comes to sex and parenting. Now a study of the differences between the brains of male and female mice in the February 3rd ...
Thu 2 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Castaway lizards provide insight into elusive evolutionary process
A University of Rhode Island biologist who released lizards on tiny uninhabited islands in the Bahamas has shed light on the interaction between evolutionary processes that are seldom observed.
Thu 2 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Fossil DNA has clues to surviving rapid climate change
In the last ice age, organisms adapted fast or died. The stunning find of epigenetic changes to DNA frozen in permafrost may help explain their trick
Tue 31 Jan 12 from Newscientist
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The nature of humanity: What's a man?
THE problem with understanding human uniqueness is precisely that it is unique. Though the proper study of mankind may be man, that study will yield little if there is no reference point to ...
Thu 2 Feb 12 from The Economist
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Discovery of extremely long-lived proteins may provide insight into cell aging
One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Scientists coax shy microorganisms to stand out in a crowd
The communities of marine microorganisms that make up half the biomass in the oceans and are responsible for half the photosynthesis the world over, mostly remain enigmatic. A few abundant groups ...
Thu 2 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Chemotherapy in Parents May Make Offspring's DNA Unstable & Riddled With Mutations
Wed 1 Feb 12 from Discover Magazine
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