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Platypus genome reveals evolutionary path that gave mammals reproductive edge
(09 May 2008)
The odd-looking platypus is often cited as proof that God has a sense of humor. Now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have turned to the strange animal to understand the genesis of an evolutionary tour de force that led ......
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An award for young scientists in a young discipline
(08 May 2008)
Systems Biology is a young field. It has the potential to fundamentally change the life sciences and generate radically new insights for biomedical research as well as for industry and agriculture. Its overall aim is to better understand life ......
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Cornell researchers study bacterium big enough to see
(08 May 2008)
The secret to an unusual bacterium's massive size - it's the size of a grain of salt, or a million times bigger than E. coli bacteria, and big enough to see with the naked eye - may be found in its ability to copy its genome tens of thousands ......
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"Silent" fungus metabolism awakened for new natural products
(06 May 2008)
Fungi wake up to new natural products
US scientists have re-awakened 'silent' metabolic pathways in fungi to reveal a new range of natural products. The research could provide not only a source of new drugs, but a way to "listen to what fungi are saying" to organisms around them. ......
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Reconstructing Oetzi's, the Neolithic Man family tree with 454 Sequencing
(06 May 2008)
Since Oetzi's sensational discovery, in 1991 and his extraction from the glacier in Alto Adige in Italy, Europe's most famous mummy has been the subject of intensive scientific study. The initial research focused on dating the mummy, and with ......
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Alnylam and Collaborators at MIT Publish Research on the Discovery of 'Lipidoids'
(02 May 2008)
Novel Class of Lipid-Based Molecules for the Delivery of RNAi Therapeutics
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced the publication of a new study in Nature Biotechnology by Alnylam scientists and collaborators from the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ......
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A new iconic drug information system inspired by road signs
(30 Apr 2008)
Although drug prescriptions are notoriously difficult to read, prescribing errors due to a lack of knowledge of drug properties are a worse problem. Now, a new information icon system has been developed by researchers in France. The researchers ......
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A step forward in virology: Trojan horse of viruses revealed
(28 Apr 2008)
Viruses use various tricks and disguises to invade cells. ETH Zurich researchers have now discovered yet another strategy used by viruses: the vaccinia virus disguises itself as cell waste, triggers the formation of evaginations in cells and is ......
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Intercell and its partner institutions are awarded an EU grant for targeting research and novel treatments of fungal infections
(24 Apr 2008)
Intercell further strengthens its fungal franchise by supporting the new Christian Doppler Laboratory
Intercell AG announced that the joint project to develop protective treatments against fungal infections was awarded an EUgrant. Intercell is coordinating a European consortium of three academic and commercial partners within the "CanVac" ......
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How a Cornell team's study of horses is providing insights into a predicted human flu pandemic
(24 Apr 2008)
Stored safely in a freezer at Cornell's James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health are samples of the virus thought to be most like the one public health experts expect someday to afflict record numbers of the world's population. The virus was ......
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