Tuesday, July 1, 2014

A Gutsy Step Forward for Diabetes

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Researchers at Columbia University’s Berrie Diabetes center may have found a way to treat people with type 1 diabetes using gastrointestin...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Turtle Draft-Genomes Yield Insight into Their Body Development and Evolution

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The first genome wide phylogenetic analysis of two turtle species tackles the questions about the origin of the turtle’s unique anatomical...

Research team unravels genetic mechanism underlying common SNP associated with blond hair in Europeans.

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Guenther et al. publish in this week's Nature Genetics on their research demonstrating that a single nucleotide substitution in a trans...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

New Data Further Complicates Human Origins

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Mitochondrial (mtRNA) testing of 17 individuals from the Sima de los Huesos , or “Bone Pit” archaeological site has further complicated th...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Genetic Diversity In Mexico

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Researchers have shown that there is substantial genetic variation between ethnic groups in Mexico.  Generations of geographic separation ...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Genome Sequencing Beats Cancer

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The time and costs of genome sequencing are getting smaller every year. Within 5 to 10 years, cancer treatments tailored to individual...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Blind mole rat genome sequenced

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A new Nature Communications paper examines the comparative genomics of the blind mole rat. Blind mole rats show unusual resistance to can...