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Genomes of biofuel yeasts reveal clues that could boost fuel ethanol production worldwide
As global temperatures and energy costs continue to soar, renewable sources of energy will be key to a sustainable future. An attractive replacement for gasoline is biofuel, and...
Crossing the line: how aggressive cells invade the brain
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Scientists reveal how induced pluripotent stem cells differ from embryonic stem cells
The same genes that are chemically altered during normal cell differentiation, as well as when normal cells become cancer cells, are also changed in stem cells that scientists derive from...
Pathogen protection and virulence: Dark side of fungal membrane protein revealed
Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and Montana State University have discovered a fungal protein that plays a key role in causing disease in plants and...
Study reveals how plants and bacteria 'talk' to thwart disease
When it comes to plants' innate immunity, like many of the dances of life, it takes two to tango. A receptor molecule in the plant pairs up with a specific...
Why nice guys usually get the girls
Female water striders often reject their most persistent and
aggressive suitors and prefer the males who aren't so grabby,
according to new research. Water striders are insects commonly seen skittering...
Taking aim at mysterious DNA structures in the battle against cancer
Designers of anti-cancer drugs are aiming their arrows at mysterious chunks of the genetic material DNA that may play a key role in preventing the growth and spread of cancer...
Bacteria expect the unexpected
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Researchers identify drug candidate for treating spinal muscular atrophy
A chemical cousin of the common antibiotic tetracycline might be useful in treating spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a currently incurable disease that is the leading genetic cause of death in...
Horse genome sequence and analysis published in Science
An international team of researchers has decoded the genome of the domestic horse Equus caballus, revealing a genome structure with remarkable similarities to humans and more than one million genetic...
CU-Boulder map of human bacterial diversity shows wide interpersonal differences
A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first
atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide
variations in microbe populations that live in different regions...
Caught in the act: Butterfly mate preference shows how 1 species can become 2
Breaking up may actually not be hard to do, say scientists who've
found a population of tropical butterflies that may be on its way
to a split into two distinct...
Ants are friendly to some trees, but not others
Tree-dwelling ants generally live in harmony with their arboreal hosts. But new research suggests that when they run out of space in their trees of choice, the ants can get...
Stanford study shows neural stem cells in mice affected by gene associated with longevity
A gene associated with longevity in roundworms and humans has been shown to affect the function of stem cells that generate new neurons in the adult brain, according to researchers...
DNA molecules in moss open door to new biotechnology
Plasmids, which are DNA molecules capable of independent replication in cells, have played an important role in gene technology. Researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden have now demonstrated that plasmid-based...
'Genome 10K' proposal aims to sequence 10,000 vertebrates
An international group of scientists is proposing to generate whole genome sequences for 10,000 vertebrate species using technology so new it hasn't yet been invented. But the scientists say new...
Lung tissue generated from human embryonic stem cells
Scientists in Belgium have successfully differentiated human embryonic stem cells (hESC) into major cell types of lung epithelial tissue using a convenient air-liquid interface. The technique, published in BioMed Central's...
Hybrid molecules show promise for exploring, treating Alzheimer's
One of the many mysteries of Alzheimer's disease is how protein-like snippets called amyloid-beta peptides, which clump together to form plaques in the brain, may cause cell death, leading to...
Deciphering the regulatory code
Embryonic development is like a well-organised building project,
with the embryo's DNA serving as the blueprint from which all
construction details are derived. Cells carry out different
functions according to...
Tags reveal white sharks have neighborhoods in the north Pacific, say Stanford researchers
The white shark may be the ultimate loner of the ocean, cruising
thousands of miles in a solitary trek, but a team of researchers
has discovered that the sharks have...
Organic weed control options for highbush blueberry
Research scientists at Nova Scotia Agricultural College have been
working steadily to find effective organic methods to control weeds
in cultivated blueberry crops. One resulting study, published in a recent...
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