News: [Entry posted at 28th January 2009 05:00 PM GMT] New findings suggest a hypothesis for a much-debated question in neuroscience : what exactly is the role of new neurons born in the adult human brain? These brain cells may help link memories of events that occurred within a week or two of each ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 22nd January 2009 07:00 PM GMT] An unlikely source has provided the answer to a long-standing question over how the geographically isolated Pacific Islands became populated: bacteria.
By analyzing both genetic variations in human gut bacteria and linguistic evidence, scientists ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 19th January 2009 10:00 PM GMT] There's a new technique for targeting gene therapy to specific tissues: sound waves that turn on gene expression, according to an article published online in PNAS. The technique could eventually also help orchestrate stem cell differentiation, the ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 19th January 2009 03:58 PM GMT] It's not just genes that are inherited. Chemical tags that affect gene expression levels may be inherited too, a new study published online this week in Nature Genetics reports.
Molecular biologist Arturas Petronis and his colleagues at the Center ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 12th January 2009 10:00 PM GMT] An improvement in magnetic resonance imaging has allowed scientists to view a virus that measures just 18 nanometers across, a study in the early version of PNAS reports.
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