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Detection of genes helps rice plants withstand flooding
Scientists say the gene has been identified to help rice survive in flooding for up to 2 weeks. Most rice varieties die within a week of being submerged under water, but…
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Plants are also very cherished
Plants have a harsh life because they must always cope with constraints in the environment such as light, lack of water, salinity of the soil, temperature or resistance…
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Detecting new toxins of bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract
Scientists have discovered a new toxin called 'colibactine' produced by Escherichia coli (E. coli), which breaks the DNA chain and disrupts the cycle of antibacterial ce…
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Improved mature cells mature
Creating embryonic-like stem cells from adult cells will allow avoiding moral problems. A Japanese researcher at Kyoto University claimed to have found a relatively simp…
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Decoding the whole gene, will people be immortal?
On May 17, 2006, the Nature journal (a No. 1 scientific journal in the world) published an important article: After 10 years of work, an international scientific group c…
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New role of tiny RNA in plant growth
Biological researchers at Rice Institute, MIT found microRNA plays an essential role in gene expression. Discovered for the first time from previous years, scientists ar…
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Why do humans have so few genes?
When leading biologists around the world are trying to explain the human genome in the late 1990s, they try to estimate the number of genes contained in the 3 billion ba…
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Where is the genetic variation and personal health related?
The scientists detected and found that succinylcholine metabolism was too slow to be involved in specific genetic variations. An estimated 1,3500 individuals carry two v…
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Breeding cats do not cause allergies
The world's first hypoallergenic cats were born with the techniques of American scientists, expanding the door and the arms of millions of animal lovers but still suffer…
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China duplicates resistance to mad cow disease
The 55 kg calf was born in Shandong Province, three years after the disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk (South Korea) cloned cows with a protein structure resistant to mad…
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Synthetic biology: Robbery of creation
A severe fever is spreading in many laboratories around the world, infecting biologists, physicists, chemists and computer experts. Symptoms: want to reproduce life in a…
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Discovered genes resistant to frost in plants
Australian scientists have found a gene that can prevent frost damage to wheat plants. Estimating this gene helps save millions of dollars every year for farmers around…
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China: creating an ivory elephant
Chinese scientists are studying to create an ivory elephant breed to limit hunting. To create the elephant, the researchers found that about 5% of elephants in Asia have…
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Plants glow to report lack of water
Students from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have created a new plant that can
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Preserve the gene pool of wild orchids before it's too late
Demand for trading, playing wild orchids makes this precious flower hunted by humans in the wild. Up to now, the Vietnamese wild orchids are calling for help before the…