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ZDNet Exclusive: Gene Simmons rocks Social Media with Ortsbo
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Scientist creates trout with 'six pack abs': potential boon for aquafarming
A decade-long effort by a University of Rhode Island scientist to develop transgenic rainbow trout with enhanced muscle growth has resulted in fish with what have been described as six-pack abs...
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Should your genes be open source?
The arguments should be familiar to everyone involved in controversies involving software patents and open source. Are patent rights on genes necessary to innovation, or are they in fact a hindrance?
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Hypertense? Your number is STK39
It's called STK39, and it is located on chromosome number two. Its job is to produce a protein which helps regulate how the kidneys process salt.
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George Clooney delivered our biggest controversy in 2008
What if you knew you were carrying a future commitment-phobe? Would you terminate the pregnancy? Tickled with the mashup, I hit the publish button. I regret that now.
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Do you have to be fat?
The biggest danger to our health is not in our genes but in the comforts that came with 20th century life. Many of the genes in our bodies evolved to deal with hardship. Without hardship those...
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Drink beer to avoid cancer...
The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) synthetic biology competition will be held on November 8-9 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 85 teams will be part of this contest, using 'a...
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Would you abort George Clooney
When the subject at hand is controversial, or unpopular, as gays remain in some circles, it's very easy to conceive of a plan to eliminate that trait from the gene pool. But what about when it's...
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We can change your cells and cure your diabetes
Transforming cells through the injection of genes is a very big deal. While it will take some time to prove, and even more time to reach the market, it's a true medical revolution.
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Recreating 3.5 billion year-old genes
A U.S. team of scientists wanted to determine what was the Earth's temperature several billions years ago. But because most of the team was composed of biologists, the researchers took an unusual...
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Will diatoms lead to faster computer chips?
Diatoms are unicellular algae and one of the most common types of phytoplankton. One of their main characteristics is they encase themselves in shells made of silica. According to a team of U.S....
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At last, a tech company that can help you sniff out a life partner
Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk takes a look at ScientificMatch, a site that claims it will find you that special someone with the help of a test tube. I have friends who tried match.com. They met...
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Life in extreme environments
U.S. biologists have developed a model mapping the control circuit governing a bacteria named Halobacterium salinarum, which can live in extremely salty environments, and that can survive to...
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A cancer-resistant mouse?
University of Kentucky researchers have created a cancer-resistant mouse by introducing a tumor-suppressor gene called 'Par-4' into an egg. The 'Par-4' gene, discovered in 1993, kills cancer...
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A supercomputer to design better plants?
Is it possible to create more productive crops than nature does without growing hybrids or genetically modified plants? According to researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
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One Silicon Valley firm will cash in on MRSA scare
But you wannabe day-traders are too late. The stock of Sunnyvale-based Cepheid has already more than doubled in the past six months. Cepheid makes gene-based testing systems for whatever nasty...
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The biggest sex event on Earth
Every year, and shortly after a full moon, billions of corals across a third of a million square kilometers of Australia's Great Barrier Reef enter in a frenzy of reproduction. Now, an...
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GMOs down to the chromosome level
If you don't like the concept of 'Frankenfoods,' I have bad news for you. U.S. researchers have developed an artificial chromosome for corn plants. The Chicago Tribune reports that researchers can...
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The importance of gene targeting and persistence
This year's Nobel Prize in Medicine went to the discovery of "gene targeting," which is now a vital technique not just in isolating diseases to specific genomes but in producing study subjects.
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Gene identification quickens
The idea, which is being published in Nature Genetics, involves first finding genes whose variations affect their own output, then narrowing in on those relating to a specific disease or trait....
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