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Gene variation means ‘perfection’ impossible

December 7, 2010
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No human carries a perfect genome with each person carrying between 250 and 300 genetic variations that could cause a gene to stop working properly say geneticists
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Obesity riddle sovled

December 7, 2010
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The prevalence of overweight children spontaneously dropped if they followed a high-protein, low-GI diet like their parents, according to the world’s largest diet study
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Attention test suggests early start for Alzheimer’s

December 6, 2010
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Alzheimer’s disease may begin as early as 40 say researchers who have developed simple attention test to predict which individuals might develop the disease
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Malaria breakthrough as team hone drug targets

December 3, 2010
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A major breakthrough has been made in the race to find new vaccines and treatments against malaria – scientists have narrowed down the set of drug targets by a third.
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Pimping-up graphene

December 3, 2010
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By tinkering with graphene, one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners has developed a flat crystal version of Teflon that could replace and compete with the material in thousands of...
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New forms of life on Earth

December 3, 2010
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It turns out phosphorus isn’t a necessary part of our DNA say American scientists who discovered a bacterium which can thrive in a toxic arsenic environment
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Divergence of the mosquitoes

December 2, 2010
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Mosquitoes responsible for spreading malaria in sub-Saharan Africa are evolving into two separate species say scientists who have just sequenced the genomes of two strains of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito
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Funding secured for home blood clot test

November 29, 2010
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Microvisk Technologies have raised over £2.5 million through a rights deal with existing investors to bring their handheld blood clotting sensor to the market by 2011.
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Rapid stem cell culture promises cartilage repair

November 29, 2010
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Damaged and disease joints could be repaired with cells derived from embryonic stem cells after scientists in Manchester developed a method to grow copious amounts in just 14 days.
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Solar dip warms planet

November 26, 2010
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A decrease in the Sun’s activity doesn’t always mean it gets cooler here on Earth; scientists believe that even though the Sun is waning, the Earth has become warmer.
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Tracing selenium

November 24, 2010
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The absence of selenium – a little known trace element – in the body may help scientists understand the role of free radicals say an international team based at the...
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Super-twisted

November 24, 2010
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Light that has been twisted like a corkscrew and then twisted even tighter has been used by Scottish scientists to probe incredibly small samples.
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