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MIT nanotubes sniff out cancer agents in living cells

MIT nanotubes sniff out cancer agents in living cells

   MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells.

Posted : Sun, Dec 14, 2008

Category : Science / General-Sciences News

Scientists Confirm Second-Ever Case of Virgin Birth by Shark

Scientists Confirm Second-Ever Case of Virgin Birth by Shark

   Scientists have confirmed the second-ever case of a 'virgin birth' in a shark, indicating once again that female sharks can reproduce without mating and raising the possibility that many female sharks have this incredible capacity.

Posted : Sat, Oct 11, 2008

Category : Science / General-Sciences News

U-M scientists selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators

U-M scientists selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators

   Two researchers at the University of Michigan have been appointed as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.

Posted : Fri, May 30, 2008

Category : Science / General-Sciences News

Gene Linked to Preterm Birth Among Hispanic Women

Gene Linked to Preterm Birth Among Hispanic Women

   Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that the gene ENPP1 is linked to preterm birth and low birth weight among Hispanic women.

Posted : Wed, Feb 06, 2008

Category : Science / General-Sciences News

Budweiser Traces Your Family Tree To Roots In Africa

Budweiser Traces Your Family Tree To Roots In Africa

   This February - Black History Month - Anheuser-Busch and its flagship brand Budweiser will help one person win the chance of a lifetime: discovering their family's origins and the opportunity to travel to that destination to retrace their family's history.

Posted : Mon, Feb 04, 2008

Category : Science / General-Sciences News

MIT reports new twist in microRNA biology

MIT reports new twist in microRNA biology

   MIT scientists have found a new way that DNA can carry out its work that is about as surprising as discovering that a mold used to cast a metal tool can also serve as a tool itself, with two complementary shapes each showing distinct functional roles.

Posted : Fri, Jan 11, 2008

Category : Science / General-Sciences News

Team probes history of genes with new tool

Team probes history of genes with new tool

   The wheels of evolution turn on genetic innovation -- new genes with new functions appear, allowing organisms to grow and adapt in new ways. But deciphering the history of how and when various genes appeared, for any organism, has been a difficult and largely intractable task.

Posted : Thu, Sep 13, 2007

Category : Science / General-Sciences News

MIT research details parasitic battles

MIT research details parasitic battles

   Scientists at MIT and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology have for the first time recorded the entire genomic expression of both a host bacterium and an infecting virus over the eight-hour course of infection.

Posted : Thu, Sep 06, 2007

Category : Science / General-Sciences News

First genome map of a horse

First genome map of a horse

   Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) announced Wednesday that the first genome map of a horse is complete.

Posted : Sun, Feb 11, 2007

Category : Science / General-Sciences News
 
 
 
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