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Disease-associated genes are ancient evolutionary legacy

October 17th, 2008 - 4:05 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, October 17 (ANI): German researchers have found that a majority of the genes that can cause diseases in humans were already in existence at the origin of the first cells. Tomislav ...

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Scientists crack human metabolic code to track disease better

October 17th, 2008 - 1:24 pm ICT by IANS -
London, Oct 17 (IANS) Normal and diseased tissues behave differently. If scientists knew how the tissues do that, they would be able to battle obesity, hypertension, diabetes and other metabolic disorders more ...

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Novel computational model can revolutionise disease diagnosis

October 17th, 2008 - 12:22 pm ICT by ANI -
London, October 17 (ANI): Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a new computational approach that may one day help gain a clearer picture of the metabolic processes of individual organs, such ...

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Will shifting geomagnetic field be Earth’s nemesis?

September 8th, 2008 - 11:43 am ICT by IANS -
Moscow, Sep 8 (RIA Novosti) The recent trouble with the International Space Station (ISS), caused by simple computer virus capable of stealing logins and passwords for computer games only, was ...

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Martian soil may contain toxic compounds harmful to life: NASA

August 5th, 2008 - 7:38 pm ICT by IANS -
RIA Novosti Moscow, Aug 5 (RIA Novosti) Martian soil could contain a toxic substance that would make it less likely that life formed there, data gathered by NASA's Phoenix lander on the red ...

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Biomass of parasites exceeds that of top predators in Pacific Coast estuaries

July 24th, 2008 - 4:13 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, July 24 (ANI): In a study of parasites living in three estuaries on the Pacific coast of California and Baja California in the US, researchers have determined that biomass of ...

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Indian outlook much too U.S. centric, says marketing guru Seth

July 21st, 2008 - 6:47 pm ICT by ANI -
New Delhi, July 21 (ANI): Forecasting a new geo-economic reality in the world driven by markets of emerging nations, Dr. Jagdish Sheth, world renowned Marketing ''Guru'' today asked India to look ...

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Tripura restricts cellphone towers for fear of radiation

July 8th, 2008 - 2:41 pm ICT by IANS -
Agartala, July 8 (IANS) Fearing radiation harmful to human health, the Tripura government has imposed restrictions against setting up Base Tower Stations (BTS) for mobile phones. The Tripura State Pollution Control Board ...

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Russia to create DNA database to tackle crime

June 27th, 2008 - 9:42 pm ICT by IANS -
RIA Novosti Moscow, June 27 (RIA Novosti) Russia's State Duma, the lower house of parliament, Friday adopted in its first reading a bill on the creation of a national DNA database. The planned ...

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Ultraviolet light may help find life on Mars

June 24th, 2008 - 12:03 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, June 24 (ANI): A team of scientists from the US and the UK has developed a technique using ultraviolet light to identify organic matter in soils that could be used ...

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Greenpeace activists demand ban on genetically modified food

June 19th, 2008 - 10:14 pm ICT by ANI -
New Delhi , June 19 (ANI): Activists of environment pressure group Greenpeace held a demonstration in New Delhi on Thursday protesting the presence of Genetically Modified (GM) ingredients in food products, ...

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New PET scanning probe makes immune system monitoring possible

June 9th, 2008 - 5:00 pm ICT by ANI -
London, June 9 (ANI): By modifying a common chemotherapy drug, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have created a new probe for Positron Emission Tomography (PET), which will not only ...

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Female jumping spiders get turned on by sexy ultraviolet rays (Re-issue)

May 4th, 2008 - 3:10 pm ICT by admin -
Washington, May 4 (ANI): They might be invisible to the human eye, but for the female Chinese jumping spider, ultraviolet B (UVB) rays come handy when it comes to mating, says ...

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Female jumping spiders get turned on by sexy ultraviolet rays

May 2nd, 2008 - 2:01 pm ICT by admin -
Washington, May 2 (ANI): They might be invisible to the human eye, but for the female Chinese jumping spider, ultraviolet B (UVB) rays come handy when it comes to mating, says ...

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Scientists create new instrument to sniff out life on Mars in 2013

May 2nd, 2008 - 12:49 pm ICT by admin -
London, May 2 (ANI): European Space Agencys (ESA) ExoMars mission in 2013 will use the Urey instrument to drill down 2 metres into the Martian soil in search for life. According to ...

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Plants maybe better bio-monitors of environment than technology

April 27th, 2008 - 11:13 am ICT by admin -
Washington, April 27 (ANI): Researchers have explained how living organisms like plants can be used to track the dispersal of atmospheric pollutants, particulates, and trace elements. Borut Smodis of the Jozef Stefan ...

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Frequent blood donation not linked to donors risk of cancers

April 9th, 2008 - 3:48 pm ICT by admin -
Washington, April 9 (ANI): A new study has shown that frequent blood donation does not change a persons risk of developing cancer. Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm found no clear ...

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Nanominerals drive Earths physical, chemical, and biological processes

March 21st, 2008 - 4:44 pm ICT by admin -
Washington , Mar 21 (ANI): A new study states that tiny particles of minerals i.e. mineral nanoparticles, influence earth systems from ocean to atmosphere to biosphere. And this knowledge may soon enable ...

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US chemists create designer enzymes

March 20th, 2008 - 4:36 pm ICT by admin -
London, March 20 (ANI): Chemists at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) have reported the successful development of "designer enzymes," a major breakthrough in computational chemistry and protein engineering. The ...

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ONGC, TERI join hands to clean oil spill in farmers field

March 11th, 2008 - 7:38 pm ICT by admin -
New Delhi, Mar 11 (ANI/Business Wire India): ONGC and TERI have formed a Joint Venture known as ONGC-TERI Biotech Ltd (OBTL) for large scale application of microbial product Oilzapper for clean up ...

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IIT Kanpur, Warwick scientists link iron banded fibrils to Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s

March 6th, 2008 - 4:07 pm ICT by admin -
Washington, March 6 (ANI): Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, and the University of Warwick, UK, have found that the mechanism that transports iron safely through our blood stream ...

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Researcher working towards explaining how enzymes break down cellulose

February 1st, 2008 - 4:10 pm ICT by admin -
Washington, Jan 31 (ANI): An American researcher is trying to shed light on the complicated structure of enzymes, by studying how the protein-based molecules break down cellulose. Iowa State University's Peter Reilly is ...

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Language evolves in ‘punctuational bursts’

February 1st, 2008 - 1:25 pm ICT by admin -
London, Jan (ANI): Languages, just like living organisms, change and evolve in quick bursts, rather than in a steady pattern, according to a new study. The study, by Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist ...

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Study shows just why sleep is so important for the brain

January 21st, 2008 - 2:03 pm ICT by admin -
London, Jan 21 (ANI): Researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health have found that sleep plays a crucial role in brains plasticity which is in turn an ...

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Scientists find traces of life around distant star

January 6th, 2008 - 4:52 pm ICT by admin -
London, Jan 6 (ANI): Scientists have observed signs of the building blocks of life in a disc of red dust surrounding a distant star, HR 4796A, which is about 8 million years ...

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Astronomers find building blocks of life in red dust of disk surrounding star

January 4th, 2008 - 12:27 pm ICT by admin -
Washington, Jan 4 (ANI): Astronomers have found the first indications of highly complex organic molecules in the planet-forming disk of red dust surrounding an eight-million-year-old star. Known as HR 4796A, the star ...

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St. Bernard’s evolution challenges theory of creationism, says study

November 14th, 2007 - 2:48 am ICT by admin -

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