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Mosses can make healing proteins
ETH Zurich researchers show that mosses and humans have unexpected general characteristics. These evolutionary relics can be useful in making therapeutic proteins.
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Gene changes increase the risk of cancer
The changes of the ATR gene in tumors have increased the risk of recurrence and the death rate of women with cancer of the uterus.
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New insights into the evolution of the first angiosperms
About 130 years ago, Charles Darwin described the origin of flowering plants (otherwise known as angiosperms) as a very mysterious thing, which until today the scientifi…
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The first glowing monkeys in the world
Two Japanese scientists used gene implantation techniques to create monkeys with green hair, luminescent skin and blood vessels under special light.
Biology
The process of yeast reproduction does not have mating genes
A type of sexual cycle pathogenic yeast is able to turn into sexual intercourse in spite of a lack of reproductive genes.
Biology
Mechanism of resistance to many bacterial drugs
In an article published in Science, it first decoded the molecular mechanism by which bacteria resist many antibiotics, or even allow bacteria to adapt to a new environm…
Biology
South Korea cloned pigs for organ transplantation
On April 22, Korean scientists announced that they cloned a pig to get transgenic transplanted organs for humans.
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Dogs glow in the night
Korean scientists have successfully cloned four dogs capable of emitting red light in the dark.
Biology
Controversy over the name
Leading experts claim that the virus is making the whole world panic mainly because pigs bring it.
Biology
Parasites only mate when enough
On the Science page this week, he and his colleagues at the National Institutes of Health reported that they finally found the answer: putting enough Leishmania individu…
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How genes are controlled
An international team of scientists has studied extensively on the human genome, and discovered how genes are controlled in mammals, and the smallest genetic component e…
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Genes decide 'women's life expectancy'
Scientists have found genes that determine when to start and end a woman's reproductive function.
Biology
Find the culprit causing hirsutism
A woman named Julia Pastrana was famous around the world in the mid-18th century thanks to the beard and hair covering her body.