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• Lets Get Dumb

  
  Look At It This Way — Authority: 98
  Since human intelligence has come so far since the Stone Age, can we say that because of nothing more than evolution we will all become geniuses in the next hundred years or so? The short answer is - no. Evolution favors only those mutations that are somehow more favorable to procreation. It doesnt make decisions ...
  5 days ago

• One Key Mutation Separates Humans From Apes

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 558
  Humans and chimpanzees, from a genetic standpoint, are first cousins.  The difference between the two from a DNA standpoint is only like 1.2 percent of genetic material; all our other DNA is exactly the same.  It’s those few simple mutations, some of which are less than 5 million years old, that separate us from ...
  6 days ago

• A ’spoonful of sugar’ may reduce life expectancy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): If a new study on worms is anything to go by, all the sugar in your diet could spell much more than obesity and type 2 diabetes - it might take years off your life.During the study, Cynthia Kenyon of the University of California, San Francisco, found that by adding [...]
  6 days ago

• Genetics in Fiction @ Clarkesworld

  
  Biology in Science Fiction — Authority: 413
  Roger Moraga has a nice article in the current issue of Clarkesworld Magazine on " Modern Genetics in the World of Fiction ": Most of the time there is a certain amount of unrealistic superscience involved in the creation of speculative fiction, but as a geneticist I cant help but wonder if it is really necessary to ...
  1 week ago

• The Unselfish Gene: Altruism and Zombies

  
  Biology in Science Fiction — Authority: 413
  The Unselfish Gene is the first published novel of science journalist Robert D. Burns , and it sounds like a lively mixture of pulpy science fiction-horror and genetics. The novels blurb gives you a taste of that: Its love and terrorism in the time of cholera. In the mid-21st century, a form of bird flu has ...
  1 week ago

• Bioengineers Speed Up Evolution to Make Better Bacteria

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 597
  E. coli bacterial evolution can be accelerated with the MAZE technique to produce favorable mutations Bacteria are prolific replicators, and some species can replicate into the millions in number in just a few hours. Bacteria, in the functioning of their cellular and biochemical machinery, also just happen to ...
  1 week ago

• Bioengineers Speed Up Evolution to Make Better Bacteria

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  E. coli bacterial evolution can be accelerated with the MAZE technique to produce favorable mutations Bacteria are prolific replicators, and some species can replicate into the millions in number in just a few hours. Bacteria, in the functioning of their cellular and biochemical machinery, also just happen to ...
  1 week ago

• Mulder has FOUR wings – not three!

  
  The Spicy Cauldron — Authority: 125
  It’s one surprise after another. Mulder, our much-trumpeted three-winged cockerel, does not have three wings after all. He has FOUR. Each full-size wing has another, half-width but same length, wing tucked neatly underneath. At almost 13 weeks old he continues to occasionally crow as he has since he was three weeks ...
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• Genetic mutations linked to risk of fungal infections identified

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  London, Oct 29 (ANI): Scientists from University College London and Radboud University have identified two genetic mutations that may put individuals at increased risk of fungal infections.According to researchers, the discoveries mark a significant step in the understanding of genetic susceptibility to fungal ...
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• Swine Flu Virus Information, The Simple Precautions You Can Take And What Treatments Are Available

  
  gothinking.net — Authority: 150
  We are ever more at a greater venture from the various mutations of the contagion virus than we have previously. First we had alarms over shuttle flu, and more firm swine contagion has manifested as a major upbeat problem. Swine contagion is a greater difficulty than shuttle contagion was. It was feared that shuttle ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment, But How?

  
  The Mesothelioma Advisor - Cancer, Health, Wellness, and Medical Information — Authority: 123
  Call it the arrow of cancer . Like the arrow of time, it was supposed to point in one direction. Cancers grew and worsened. Dana Neely/Corbis But as a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted last week, data from more than two decades of screening for breast and prostate ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gene therapy. “Children who were treated with gene therapy are now able to walk and play just like any normally sighted child …”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 132
  Twelve patients have received gene therapy utilizing a surgical procedure performed by Albert M Maguire MD, University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of Ophthalmology. According to a Release from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: “After the first group of three young adults was treated safely, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Some Diseases More Common In Children Of Older Fathers: Testicular Tumors May Explain Why

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 144
  A rare form of testicular tumour has provided scientists with new insights into how genetic changes (mutations) arise in our children. The research, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Danish Cancer Society, could explain why certain diseases are more common in the children of older fathers. Mutations can occur in ...
  2 weeks ago

• No Test Needed For Hand-Foot Genital Syndrome In Women Without HOXA13 Gene Mutation

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 144
  Hugh Taylor and colleagues also presented research in various other abstracts at the ASRM meeting. One such abstract showed that women without mutations of the HOXA13 gene do not need to be subjected to x-rays and other tests for a rare condition called hand-foot genital syndrome. The disorder affects the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why sex with partner is always a good idea

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  London, Oct 22 (ANI): Plants and animals, that have sex with a partner rather than doing it alone via self-fertilization, give their offspring a better chance for longer lives, says a new study.The researchers reached the above conclusion after conducting more than 100 mini-evolution experiments involving nematode ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mutant Gene Raises Risk of Parkinsons Disease

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  People with rare Gauchers disease hPeople with a rare disease called Gauchers disease have a high risk of developing Parkinsons disease. That clue led scientists to discover gene mutations that raise the risk of Parkinsons fivefold.
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• Chinese “Cat Girl” Growing Fine Gray Fur

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 558
  It started out as a normal birthmark on the back of a 6-year-old girl.  Li Xiaoyuan, like most of us, had a little mole.  Unlike most of us, Li’s mole started growing.  Well, the mole didn’t, but the hair inside the mole did, and now she’s become the “cat girl” of Fengkai, China.  Poor little Li now ...
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• Random Mutations and Side Effects: Part Three

  
  Nameless Kingdom Alternative RPG Materials — Authority: 112
  Random Side Effect Table 5(Respiratory Adaptation)1d6Result1None2Requires a small amount of a specific poison each day or will become ill.3Exudes a foul smell at all times.4Breathes only toxic substances and requires a...
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• Evolution in an Erlenmeyer Flask

  
  Science and the Sacred — Authority: 537
  Twenty-one years and 40,000 generations later, an experiment looking at the evolution of a population of single-celled E. coli bacteria has finally reached its conclusion. The results "beautifully emphasize the succession of mutational events that allowed these organisms to climb...
  3 weeks ago

• Scientists watch evolution unfold in a bottle

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Oct 19 (IANS) Scientists now have physical proof of how species evolve and the fittest survive, after a 21-year study in which they documented the evolution of single-celled E. coli bacteria over 40,000 generations.Richard Lenski, Hannah professor of microbial ecology at Michigan State University (MSU), ...
  3 weeks ago

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