November 23rd, 2008 - 3:15 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 23 (ANI): "Waterproof" versions of popular varieties of rice, which can withstand 2 weeks of complete submergence, have successfully passed tests in farmers'' fields in India and Bangladesh, and ...
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November 22nd, 2008 - 12:45 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 22 (ANI): Waterproof versions of popular varieties of rice, which can withstand 2 weeks of complete submergence, have successfully passed tests in farmers fields in India and Bangladesh, and ...
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October 31st, 2008 - 3:07 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Oct 31 (ANI): A new research has pinpointed some of the genetic changes that allowed vampire bats to evolve to subsist on a diet of pure blood.
According to a report ...
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October 7th, 2008 - 12:15 pm ICT by ANI
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London, October 7 (ANI): A leading British genetics expert says that humans will not evolve anymore.
Professor Steve Jones of University College London argues that, at least in the developed world, ...
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July 20th, 2008 - 3:39 pm ICT by ANI
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London, July 20 (ANI): They say white horses are a mythical image of purity and sanctity. Now, a group of scientists have come up with a scientific answer for the white ...
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June 19th, 2008 - 11:45 am ICT by ANI
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London, June 19 (ANI): Sequencing the genome of a marine invertebrate known as the lancelet, University of California-Berkeley scientists have come up with an explanation as to how a four-fold duplication ...
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June 9th, 2008 - 1:00 pm ICT by ANI
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London, June 9 (ANI): A Nobel Laureate associated with the University of Utah has found that a single organ may comprise of more than one type of adult stem cell.
Geneticist Mario ...
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June 6th, 2008 - 12:07 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, June 6 (ANI): Experts at the Medical College of Georgia Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies have revealed that they are using zebrafish as a live model to study the ...
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June 3rd, 2008 - 1:01 pm ICT by ANI
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London, June 3 (ANI): US geneticists have come up with an idea on how make the common grass bahiagrass (Paspalum notatutri) more suitable for use in gardens, and for planting along ...
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April 17th, 2008 - 2:59 pm ICT by admin
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London, Apr 17 (ANI): The mutation that causes the rare genetic disease pyruvate kinase deficiency protects against malaria, states a new study.
Approximately 1 in 20,000 people have two copies of a ...
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March 18th, 2008 - 5:01 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, March 18 (ANI): Researchers at the Monell Center have found that fruit flies are more like humans in their responses to sweet flavours than almost any other specie.
The diverse range ...
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January 15th, 2008 - 4:53 pm ICT by admin
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Wellington, Jan 15 (ANI): A team of evolutionary geneticists has rebuffed the theory that New Zealand sank underwater 26 million years ago, based on DNA samples taken from the native kauri forests ...
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January 15th, 2008 - 2:19 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, January 15 (ANI): Scientists in the United States have discovered that a chemical signalling system an important anti-oxidant and cancer prevention pathway long recognized in people and other animals also plays ...
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January 15th, 2008 - 1:09 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, January 15 (ANI): Monell Center researchers say that more than 6,000 genes, about 25 per cent of the genome, contribute to obesity and body weight in mice.
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