News: [Entry posted at 23rd April 2009 08:53 PM GMT] After weeks of eating nothing, a patient being treated at the National Institutes of Health was recently able to suck on a lifesaver for about 20 minutes. He has a rare condition that prevents him from eating for long stretches, but when art ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 23rd April 2009 07:07 PM GMT] Scientists have used traces of retrovirus DNA to map ancient sheep migration across Asia, Europe, and Africa, a paper in this week's Science reports. The results may help settle a debate about where humans first bred sheep for their white, fleecy ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 20th April 2009 04:06 PM GMT] Researchers have designed a way to streamline the construction of synthetic gene networks, a paper published online this week in Nature Biotechnology reports. The technique could speed up the process of building such networks, the authors say.
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News: [Entry posted at 16th April 2009 07:00 PM GMT] Members of a microbial community from a pool of water deep under the Arctic ice power their metabolism by "breathing" iron, a study in this week's Science reports. The previously unknown mechanism may explain how microbes survived during a period ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 12th April 2009 05:44 PM GMT] Are female mammals born with all the eggs they'll ever have, or can they produce new eggs into adulthood? The question has been vociferously debated, but now, a study published online in Nature Cell Biology today (April 12) reports that at least in ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 9th April 2009 03:27 PM GMT] Genentech withdrew its psoriasis drug Raptiva from the market yesterday, citing the risk of developing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a rare, often fatal brain infection. The drug will be phased out by June 8 of this year, ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 2nd April 2009 05:00 PM GMT] Prions may not just be culprits in disease -- they may also do some good, new research shows. Proteins prone to morph into prions are widespread in yeast, and may benefit the organism by helping it adapt to a changing environment, scientists report ... Click to continue
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