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One-step screening for both genetic and chromosomal abnormalities has come a stage closer as scientists announced that an embryo test they have been developing has successfully screened cells taken from spare embryos that were known to have cystic fibrosis.

The newest revolution in microbiology testing walks on four legs and says 'baa'. It's the hair sheep, a less-hirsute version of the familiar woolly barnyard resident.

Ecological Niche Modeling is a great tool for conservation biology, phylogeography and evolutionary biology. However, as Jeff Lozier and colleagues point out in a paper in the Journal of Biogeography that the models are only as good as the data they are based on.

Researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, have drawn together 200 years' worth of oceanographic knowledge to investigate the distribution of a notorious deep-sea giant a ' the king crab.

Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have played a major role in an international effort that has shown, for the first time, that modern genetic technologies can solve the riddle of how gene variations lead to schizophrenia.

An 84-year-old University of Chicago researcher has won a half-million-dollar genetics prize for her pioneering work in showing that cancer is a genetic disease.

A handful of typos in a mysterious region of the human genetic code are connected to a slightly higher risk of schizophrenia, new studies show.

In Was Michael Jackson A Pedophile? we dismissed the idea that Michael Jackson was gay and the unlikeliness of his being a clinical pedophile along with being an autogynephile. So what was he?

A human growth factor that stimulates blood stem cells to proliferate in the bone marrow reverses memory impairment in mice genetically altered to develop Alzheimer's disease, researchers at the University of South Florida and James A. Haley Hospital found.

Transcriptomic tests have uncovered the protein composition of venom from the Scorpiops jendeki scorpion.

How proteins recognize specific stretches of DNA is one of the key questions of gene regulation.

Online genetic testing for lung cancer appears to offer some benefits to patients, according to U.S. researchers who evaluated the use of an online test among 44 smokers.

A discovery by scientists at deCODE genetics and academic colleagues from Iceland, the Netherlands and Denmark has pointed to a common biological mechanism contributing to both kidney stones and decreased bone mineral density .

NEW NEW Abstract Although genome-scale technologies have benefited from statistical measures of data quality, extracting biologically relevant pathways from high-throughput proteomics data remains a challenge.

Exercise requires the integrated activity of every organ and tissue in the body, and understanding how these respond to the decreased oxygen levels present at moderate to high altitude is the focus of the current special issue of High Altitude Medicine & Biology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Two studies recently published in the journal Nature Genetics report identifying new genes and gene regions that contribute to making people susceptible to developing MS.

Main Category: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience Biology / Biochemistry Alcohol's inebriating effects are familiar to everyone.

Susan Hill dislikes cilantro, and not just a little. "I just hate it," says Hill, 36, an Annapolis, Md., stay-at-home mom.

Main Category: Immune System / Vaccines Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry ; Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry ; Blood / Hematology Article Date: 27 Jun 2009 - 0:00 PDT It is now possible to engineer tiny containers the size of a virus to deliver drugs and other materials with almost 100 percent efficiency to targeted cells in the ...

SCI CORPORATION announced that it has filed a provisional U.S. patent application covering its L.E.A.P.S. immune therapy drugs for the prevention/treatment of H1N1, swine, bird flu, Influenza A and/or evolving mutants or variants of these viruses.