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A new look at how genes unfold to enable their expression
(07/15/2008)
Cornell researchers have uncovered surprising new information about the process by which genes are unwrapped and exposed so that they can be expressed.There are 3 billion base pairs of DNA in the human genome, stored in compacted structures in order ...
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Forest songsters evolved in an early burst of innovation
(07/14/2008)
Evolution seems to have happened in fits and starts -- at least that's what the fossil record shows. From trilobites to pterodactyls, ammonites to Archaeopteryx, scientists find the same pattern: brief bursts of innovation in which a single species ...
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Cornell's Project Budbreak encourages citizens to study local effects of climate change
(07/08/2008)
For most people, climate change seems an intractable problem, involving such distant issues as melting Arctic ice and threatened polar bears. But now, concerned citizens can get involved by studying the effects of global warming on plants in their ...
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Milk goes green
(07/04/2008)
Cows fed biotech product reduce agriculture's environmental impact
Producing milk uses large quantities of land, energy and feed. But cows that receive a biotech product called rbST give more milk, easing natural resource pressure and reducing environmental impact, according to a Cornell study.The carbon hoofprint ...
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Quagga mussels threaten western U.S. water and electric plants, Cornell expert tells legislators
(07/03/2008)
Pipe-clogging invasive mussels caused up to $1.5 billion in damage across 23 states between 1989 and 2007. Now, fingernail-sized quagga mussels, a close relative of zebra mussels, have spread to the West and threaten to do even more damage.The ...
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The time is ripe for an apple that tastes like berries and one that doesn't brown
(06/09/2008)
Mention an apple and most people will immediately associate the word with a crisp, juicy, sweet-tart red fruit. But ask Cornell fruit geneticist Susan Brown about apples, and she'll share visions of deep red flesh or skin patterned like feathers on ...
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Gene therapy trial offers new hope for Batten disease, a fatal neurological disease in children
(06/03/2008)
Gene therapy that helps defective brain cells get rid of "garbage" appears both safe and effective at slowing down Batten disease, according to promising findings from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Batten disease (late ...
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Cornell researchers study bacterium big enough to see
(05/08/2008)
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 of ...
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How a Cornell team's study of horses is providing insights into a predicted human flu pandemic
(04/24/2008)
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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Vet College scientists aid investigation of why bats in Northeast are mysteriously dying
(02/22/2008)
First it was bees that were mysteriously dying. Now it's bats.
Following a summer when honeybees across America began to die in great numbers, researchers are now finding thousands of sick bats in caves in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. The deaths of the two species appear to be unrelated.Bat specialists ...
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