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Discover new role of protein
A family of proteins known to be surprisingly resistant to bacteria, while also helping to identify a dog with black, white, or half-white, half-black fur, according to…
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Cure plant rot in potatoes with new methods
Scientists at Cambridge University had a key genetic discovery of the bacteria that caused plant rot, a potato disease that caused economic losses and this discovery cou…
Biology
Animals fast sex ... 40 million years
A group of Earth's tiny inhabitants survived without caring about it
Biology
Detailed publication of the map of human gene variants
October 17, 2008 - A group of international scientists has published a map of the human gene variant that has been evaluated to be the most detailed and complete ever.
Biology
Appearance can identify stem cells
But scientists in the lab of Whitehead Member Rudolf Jaenisch did not need to use genetic markers in their latest experiments, because the results were easy to see.
Biology
New rice variety: Less water, higher yield
An international team of scientists has produced a kind of rice that can grow better and use water more efficiently than other rice varieties. Professor Andy Pereira of…
Biology
Scientists do research with cone gene sequences
American scientists are conducting research on the genetic sequence of pine trees in the first series of projects that are intended to expand the list of six families of…
Biology
New complexity is discovered in the human genome
Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered that in addition to the total number of countable genes there is something else that causes genetic differences…
Biology
Publication of human gene map on the Internet
For the first time, a fully decoded human gene map has been published on the Internet. The owner of the gene map and the decoder is the famous scientist Craig Venter, wh…
Biology
Create mice with mental illness to test drugs
Scientists have created schizophrenic mice to use for testing new drugs and therapies before testing them on humans. This new method will help improve the effectiveness…
Biology
Funny science mysteries (part 3)
Why do boys and girls struggle differently? Science still hasn't fully explained why boys often punch each other while girls snatch hair from each other on school ground…
Biology
Natural selection of butterflies
An international team of researchers has documented an unusual example of the natural selection of tropical butterfly species - speaking in terms of genetics - counter-a…
Biology
The ancestors of bacteria used to live in the deep sea
Some genes that allow the current bacterial species to infect humans may originate from a microbial ancestor that once lived in the deep ocean.
Biology
Extreme evolution to avoid extinction
This story about butterflies in Samoa is an example of the fastest natural selection observed so far, and shows that evolution can accelerate when a major threat arises.
Biology
Mosquitoes will no longer transmit disease in the future
A decade ago scientists announced it was possible to put a foreign gene into a mosquito's genome. A year ago, scientists announced the successful use of an n-capable art…