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November 27th, 2008 - 3:52 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, November 27 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have gained significant insights into the process whereby the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum develops drug resistance.
Michael Ferdig, a biologist ...
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November 27th, 2008 - 2:33 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 27 (ANI): Researchers from Harvard Medical School claim to have identified what can be called as potentially universal mechanism of aging.
They found that DNA damage decreases a cell''s ability ...
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November 25th, 2008 - 5:09 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 25 (ANI): Female flies have a unique ability to turn back the biological clock and extend lifespan at the same time, according to a new study.
It has long been ...
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November 24th, 2008 - 5:44 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 24 (ANI): Scientists have identified three genes linked to the body''s processing of fats that may increase the risk of kidney cancer.
During the study, the researchers found that ...
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November 23rd, 2008 - 4:41 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Nov 23 (ANI): Genes play a key role in shaping your dietary preferences, claim Danish scientists.
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen Hospital, Denmark, studied 600 sets of twins to try ...
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November 22nd, 2008 - 12:18 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Nov 22 (ANI): Genes play a key role in shaping your dietary preferences, claim Danish scientists.
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen Hospital, Denmark, studied 600 sets of twins to try ...
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November 21st, 2008 - 3:10 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 21 (ANI): Researchers have found a way to double the output of rice crops in drought-stricken areas of countries like India and Thailand.
A team of researchers, led by Jerome ...
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November 21st, 2008 - 1:01 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 21 (ANI): In a new study on plants, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh have provided evidence of the first stages of the evolution of separate sexes - a ...
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November 20th, 2008 - 5:04 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): In a first of its kind study, scientists at the Buck Institute for Age Research have uncovered biomarkers of aging, which can predict both chronological and physiological ...
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November 16th, 2008 - 11:54 am ICT by ANI
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London, November 16 (ANI): Experiments on pigs have given rise to a simple technique to make transplanted organs invisible to the immune system, so that they would not be rejected by ...
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November 14th, 2008 - 1:32 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Nov 14 (ANI): In a breakthrough study, Spanish scientists have created a genetically modified supermice that can resist cancer and which age almost half as fast as other mice.
The research ...
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November 12th, 2008 - 3:05 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 12 (ANI): In a study on the sex life of pond snail, a researcher has found that just like humans, the snails have been genetically programmed to use the ...
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November 9th, 2008 - 6:42 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 9 (ANI): Children born to mothers with pregnancy-related diabetes are twice as likely to have language development problems, says a new study.
The research team from Universite ...
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November 7th, 2008 - 4:26 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 7 (ANI): Children born to mothers with pregnancy-related diabetes are twice as likely to have language development problems, says a new study.
The research team from Universite Laval''s School of ...
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November 6th, 2008 - 3:49 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): A team of researchers have carried out the largest study of differences between human and chimpanzee genomes, identifying regions that have been duplicated or lost during evolution ...
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November 6th, 2008 - 12:38 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery have identified a new therapeutic target that can be used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
The research team found that manipulating ...
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November 5th, 2008 - 5:01 pm ICT by ANI
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London, November 5 (ANI): A new study suggests that super-productive modern chickens have, on average, lost over half the genes present in ancestral populations.
Bill Muir of Purdue University in West Lafayette, ...
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November 4th, 2008 - 4:37 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): Parents don''t take up children''s duties on their own, it''s the genes that guide them to take up different roles in kids'' upbringing, finds a new study, ...
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November 3rd, 2008 - 2:56 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Nov 3 (ANI): The most acute form of post-natal depression might be linked to genes, says researchers.
The study led by Cardiff University, Birmingham University and Trinity College, Dublin suggests that ...
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October 31st, 2008 - 12:03 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 31 (ANI): Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine say that scientists looking for genetic variants responsible for triggering early-onset diabetes, also known as type-1 diabetes, may be ...
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October 30th, 2008 - 2:29 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Oct 30 (ANI): Attractive couples hand their good looks down to their daughters, but have little impact on whether their sons are handsome, according to a new study.
University of St ...
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October 26th, 2008 - 12:07 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 26 (ANI): A new research has confirmed for the first time that normal skin can become drier from creams.
The findings are based on Izabela Buraczewskas study, in which ...
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October 23rd, 2008 - 2:56 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 23 (ANI): In a study conducted on worms, British researchers have found that mutation in a gene that corresponds to a gene in humans, plays a crucial role in ...
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October 22nd, 2008 - 12:42 pm ICT by ANI
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London, October 22 (ANI): Moles can no longer open their eyelids after adapting to an underground lifestyle, but they have still managed to retain the basics of vision, according to a ...
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October 20th, 2008 - 5:11 pm ICT by ANI
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London, October 20 (ANI): A team of American scientists has undertaken a new research project to find out how people will react upon being told that they are genetically susceptible to ...
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October 17th, 2008 - 2:07 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 17 (ANI): A new study in mice has suggested that several genes that play a role in how human body''s cells normally auto-destruct may play a role in age-related ...
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October 13th, 2008 - 12:55 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Oct 13 (ANI): An international team of researchers has found that two genetic variants that may put men at a sevenfold increased risk of male pattern baldness.
Male pattern baldness is ...
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October 11th, 2008 - 1:54 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 11 (ANI): German researchers say that dyslexia, a learning disability whose sufferers struggle with reading and writing, can occur due to genetic causes.
We are trying to find out ...
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October 10th, 2008 - 6:22 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 10 (ANI): After studying a bacterium called Photorhabdus asymbiotica, scientists at Universities of Bath and Exeter have developed a new method, called Rapid Virulence Annotation (RVA), for checking toxic ...
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October 10th, 2008 - 1:16 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 10 (ANI): A new study in mice has shown that retinylamine a trial drug that has been tested in a medical school lab markedly slows the progression of age-related ...
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