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( Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council ) Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Medical Research Council have successfully used a drug to reset and restart the natural 24 hour body clock of mice in the lab. The ability to do this in a mammal opens up the possibility of dealing with a range of human difficulties including some …
( Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council ) Researchers have made a discovery that could lead to a brand new class of drugs to treat chronic pain caused by inflammatory conditions such as arthritis and back pain without numbing the whole body.
RNA offers a safer way to reprogram cells
23 Jul 2010For the first time, researchers have shown that they can deliver those same reprogramming genes using RNA, the genetic material that normally ferries instructions from DNA to the cell’s protein-making machinery.
Rescuing fruit flies from Alzheimer’s disease
15 Jul 2010Fruit fly males — in which the activity of an Alzheimer’s disease protein is reduced by 50 percent — show impairments in learning and memory as they age, scientists have found. What’s more, the researchers were able to prevent the age-related deficits by treating the flies with drugs such as lithium, or by genetic manipulations that reduced nerve-cell signaling.
Biosensors reveal how single bacterium gets the message to split into a swimming and a stay-put cell
3 Jun 2010When certain bacteria reproduce by splitting in two, one cell inherits a propeller for swimming and the other builds a stalk to cling to surfaces.
High-performance computing reveals missing genes
13 Apr 2010Scientists have used high-performance computing to locate small genes that have been missed by scientists in their quest to define the microbial DNA sequences of life. Using an ephemeral supercomputer made up of computers from across the world, the mpiBLAST computational tool used by the researchers took only 12 hours instead of the 90 years it would have required if the work were performed on a standard personal computer.
The hunter-gatherers who inhabited the southern coast of Scandinavia 4,000 years ago were lactose intolerant, according to a new study carried out by researchers in Sweden.
Biologists at Freie Universität Berlin together with bioinformaticians and genome experts at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics teamed up as the only German team with another 20 international research groups to decode the first genome of a songbird, the Australian zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata).
A breakthrough in decoding gene regulation of Helicobacter pylori has been made by an international research team. Using a newly developed sequencing technique, the researchers discovered 60 small ribonucleic acids — tiny RNA-particles which can regulate genes — in the genome of this human pathogen. These findings could facilitate the development of new therapeutic strategies against this widespread pathogen.
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