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Scientists discover possible building blocks of ancient genetic systems in...
Scientists believe that prior to the advent of DNA as Earth's primary genetic material, early forms of life used RNA to encode genetic instructions. What sort of genetic molecules did life rely on...
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Chinese Medicine Yields Secrets to Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute
“Our new results solved a mystery that has puzzled people about the mechanism of action of a medicine that has been used to treat fever from a malaria infection going back probably 2,000 years or...
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Strange behavior: new study exposes living cells to synthetic protein
One approach to understanding components in living organisms is to attempt to create them artificially, using principles of chemistry, engineering and genetics. A suite of powerful...
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Life’s tiniest architects pinpointed by Yale researchers
If a genome is the blueprint for life, then the chief architects are tiny slices of genetic material that orchestrate how we are assembled and function, Yale School of Medicine researchers report Feb....
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Explainer: what is a gene?
When people use the word “gene” it’s also important to know what they intend it to mean. The meaning may depend on whether one is talking about carrying a gene, expressing a gene, transferring a gene...
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Origins of Life ?
A structural biologist at the Florida State University College of Medicine has made discoveries that could lead scientists a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth billions of...
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The ENCODE project: Missteps overshadowing a success
ENCODE’s feature maps illustrate the human genome. They are unquestionably useful, despite the incomplete and ill defined nature of having to operationalize something as complex as biological function....
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Scientists Create Novel Approach to Find RNAs Involved in Long-term Memory...
Despite decades of research, relatively little is known about the identity of RNA molecules that are transported as part of the molecular process underpinning learning and memory.
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RNA was capable of catalyzing electron transfer on early earth with iron’s...
The study shows that RNA is capable of catalyzing electron transfer under conditions similar to those of the early Earth.
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UH Astrobiologists Find Martian Clay Contains Chemical Implicated in the...
Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa NASA Astrobiology Institute (UHNAI) have discovered high concentrations of boron in a Martian meteorite. When present in its oxidized form (borate),...
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New findings from UNC School of Medicine challenge assumptions about origins...
UNC biochemists resurrect “molecular fossils” to conduct experiments that undercut the predominant scientific theory of how life began on Earth.
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Yale team identifies molecular ‘finger’ that pushes the domino of life
The basics of conception are familiar to any high school freshman biology student, yet scientists have yet to find the initial molecular mechanisms that set off the cascade of events that form a...
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Gene regulation differences between humans and chimpanzees more complex than...
Changes in gene regulation have been used to study the evolutionary chasm that exists between humans and chimpanzees despite their largely identical DNA.
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Meaningful briefing
Abstracts of thirty significant scientifc articles published online during November 2013
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Unusual suspects
New collaborative work from computational biologists at MIT and experimental biologists at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), however, is easing that distinction by combining...
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Lush Life, Deep Down
The deep biosphere—a realm of sediments buried far below the seafloor—harbors diverse, thriving communities of life, according a new study by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)...
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Scientists Design Targeted New Drug Candidates Based on Detailed Picture of...
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have revealed an atomic-level view of a genetic defect that causes a form of muscular dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy type 2, and have...
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Molecular Basis of Memory
Watching Molecules Morph into Memories Breakthrough Allows Einstein Scientists to Probe How Memories Form in Nerve Cells "This observation that neurons selectively activate protein synthesis and then...
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Mitochondrial ribosome revealed
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich have deciphered the structure of part of the ribosome found in mitochondria, the power plants of the cell. The scientists were...
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First monkeys with customized mutations born
Milestone for targeted gene-editing technology promises better models for human diseases NATURE | NEWS 30 January 2014 Helen Shen NATURE
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