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EPFL scientists have carried out a genomic and evolutionary study of a large and enigmatic family of human proteins, to demonstrate that it is responsible for harnessing the millions of transposa...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2017/03/08/the_proteins_that_domesticated_our_genomes.html

For the first time, researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have been able to identify in human cancers two characteristic patterns of DNA damage caused by io...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/09/12/study_reveals_how_ionising_radiation_damages_dna_and_causes_cancer.html

In a first-of-its-kind look at human kidney development, researchers at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles have isolated human nephron progenitor (NP) cells. Their re...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/09/12/human_kidney_progenitors_isolated_offering_new_clues_to_cell_renewal.html

Scientists from the Senckenberg and the Giraffe Conservation Foundation have analysed the genetic relationships of all major populations of giraffe in the wild. The large study on the genetic mak...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/09/08/giraffes_more_speciose_than_expected.html

In research published online today in Science, a team of scientists describe a new therapeutic strategy to target a hidden Achilles' heel shared by all known types of Ebola virus. Two antibodies ...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/09/08/new_trojan_horse_antibody_strategy_shows_promise_against_all_ebola_viruses.html

Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have identified a brain circuit that's indispensable to the sleep-wake cycle. This same circuit is also a key component of the reward system, an ...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/09/05/brain_circuit_that_drives_sleepwake_states_sleeppreparation_behavior_is_identified.html

Ohio State University researchers and their colleagues have identified a new genus of bacteria living inside hydraulic fracturing wells. Researchers analyzing the genomes of microorganisms living...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/09/05/new_genus_of_bacteria_found_living_inside_hydraulic_fracturing_wells.html

Biochemists at the University of California San Diego have uncovered patterns in the outer protein coat of group A Streptococcus that could finally lead to a vaccine against this highly infectiou...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/09/05/biochemists_discovery_could_lead_to_vaccine_against_flesheating_bacteria.html

A researcher transfers tomato plantlets from a plate of regeneration medium. Tomatoes are already an ideal model species for plant research, but scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) j...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/08/30/more_tomatoes_faster_accelerating_tomato_engineering.html

This is a paleoartist's reconstruction of a ptesosaur. Scientists today announced the discovery of a new species of pterosaur from the Patagonia region of South America. The cranial remains were ...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/08/30/new_species_of_pterosaur_discovered_in_patagonia.html

Researchers at Houston Methodist have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) software that reliably interprets mammograms, assisting doctors with a quick and accurate prediction of breast canc...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/08/29/artificial_intelligence_expedites_breast_cancer_risk_prediction.html

Cyanobacterial neurotoxin β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) and Mercury are detected in sharks from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In a new study, University of Miami (UM) scientists found high...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/08/29/study_finds_shark_fins_meat_contain_high_levels_of_neurotoxins_linked_to_alzheimers_disease.html

This image shows induced pluripotent stem cells expressing a characteristic cell surface protein called SSEA4 (green). A research team including developmental biologist Stephen A. Duncan, D. Phil...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/08/29/purest_yet_liverlike_cells_generated_from_induced_pluripotent_stem_cells.html

In a very severe, genetic form of microcephaly, stem cells in the brain fail to divide, according to a new Columbia University Medical Center study that may provide important clues to understandi...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/08/24/in_some_genetic_cases_of_microcephaly_stem_cells_fail_to_launch.html