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Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. science / biology news stories aggregated by FeedZilla.com Researcher solves mystery about proteins that package the genome (source: Topix.net) October 9, 2009 at 9:13 pm A Florida State University College of Medicine researcher has solved a century-old mystery about proteins that play a vital role in the transfer of the human genetic code from one cell to another. (source: Topix.net) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Bye-Bye Birdie: New Look at Archaeopteryx Shows It Was More Dinosaur Than Bird (source: Scientific American) October 9, 2009 at 3:50 pm Just as Charles Darwin was proposing his radical theory of evolution , paleontologists discovered a curious fossil specimen in modern-day Germany: Archaeopteryx . The feathered specimen, pegged by many as the first bird , helped provide further evidence... (source: Scientific American) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Immune Cell Entry Into Pancreatic Islets Key To Understanding Type 1 Diabetes Origins (source: Topix.net) October 9, 2009 at 3:26 pm Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have discovered how destructive immune cells gain access to insulin-producing cells and help cause diabetes. (source: Topix.net) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Future Diabetes Treatment May Use Resveratrol To Target The Brain (source: Science daily) October 9, 2009 at 2:00 pm A new study shows that the brain plays a key role in mediating resveratrol's anti-diabetic actions, potentially paving the way for future orally delivered diabetes medications that target the brain. (source: Science daily) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Pandemic Payoff from 1918: A Weaker H1N1 Flu Today (source: Scientific American) October 9, 2009 at 1:20 pm Editor's Note: This story is scheduled to appear in the November issue of Scientific American and is being published early due to recent news regarding the H1N1 vaccine. Although the swine flu outbreak of 2009 is still in full swing, this global influen... (source: Scientific American) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Genome: Now in 3-D! (source: Scientific American) October 9, 2009 at 11:03 am [ The following is an exact transcript of this podcast. ]If the human genome were put in a straight line, it would be over six and a half feet long. So how do you store all that DNA in a tiny nucleus? And have the cell manage it? Researchers explain how in... (source: Scientific American) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Head Lines: Men Are Choosy, Too (source: Scientific American) October 9, 2009 at 11:00 am Men Are Choosy, Too In numerous studies of speed dating--a rapid-fire matchmaking tool that has men hop from table to table for quick encounters--women have proved choosier than the guys about whom they flag for a second date. Ladies must be picky because... (source: Scientific American) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Liver cells grown from patients' skin cells (source: Topix.net) October 9, 2009 at 10:50 am These are liver cells generated from skin that are shown to make human liver proteins Albumin in green and HNF4 in red. (source: Topix.net) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com What Is Killing South African Crocs? (source: Scientific American) October 9, 2009 at 9:00 am Carcasses of adult crocodiles do not usually signal the return of winter in South Africa, but mass death seems to be becoming the harbinger of the season. Rangers at the Kruger National Park have found Nile crocodiles floating in the Oli­fants River or... (source: Scientific American) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Study Results Suggest New Approaches For Preventing Type 1 Diabetes (source: Medical News Today) October 9, 2009 at 8:00 am St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have discovered how destructive immune cells gain access to insulin-producing cells and help cause diabetes. The finding points to possible new strategies to halt or prevent type I diabetes. Working... (source: Medical News Today) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Use Of Archived Specimens In Biomarker Studies (source: Medical News Today) October 9, 2009 at 8:00 am Researchers propose a more efficient system using archived specimens for the evaluation of prognostic and predictive biomarkers in a new commentary published online October 8 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. (source: Medical News Today) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com NeMeSys: a biological resource for narrowing the gap between sequence and function in the human pathogen Neisseria meningitidis (source: Genomebiology.com) October 9, 2009 at 7:00 am Background: Genome sequences, now available for most pathogens, hold promises for the rational design of new therapies. However, biological resources for genome-scale identification of gene function (notably genes involved in pathogenesis) and/or genes ess... (source: Genomebiology.com) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Public Lecture At UC Riverside To Focus On Evolutionary Struggle With Cancer (source: Medical News Today) October 9, 2009 at 7:00 am Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Our evolutionary struggle with this disease is the focus of a free, public lecture at UC Riverside. Population geneticist Leonard Nunney will give the hour-long lecture, titled "The Battle Within: Our Evolut... (source: Medical News Today) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Study: Those With Older Brothers More Likely to be Gay (source: Topix.net) October 9, 2009 at 6:20 am There are various theories as to why gay men are sexually and romantically attracted to those of their own gender. (source: Topix.net) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Enzyme May Be A Key To Alzheimer's-Related Cell Death (source: Medical News Today) October 9, 2009 at 3:00 am A Purdue University researcher has discovered that the amount of an enzyme present in neurons can affect the mechanism thought to cause cell death in Alzheimer's disease patients and may have applications for other diseases such as stroke and heart attack. (source: Medical News Today) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Scientists find virus link to chronic fatigue syndrome (source: Topix.net) October 9, 2009 at 1:54 am In what may prove to be the first major breakthrough in the fight against the mysterious disorder known as 'chronic fatigue syndrome,' researchers reported today that they have found traces of a virus in the majority of patients with the disease. (source: Topix.net) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Award targets brain tumor research (source: Eurekalert.org) October 9, 2009 at 12:00 am (The Translational Genomics Research Institute) SAIC-Frederick Inc., under its prime contract with the National Cancer Institute, has named the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) as one of five national centers selected to conduct cancer expe... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Therapeutic Hypothermia journal announced by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. (source: Eurekalert.org) October 9, 2009 at 12:00 am (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Therapeutic Hypothermia, a new online open access peer-reviewed journal, will focus on medical treatment which lowers a patient's body temperature to help reduce the risk of ischemic injury to tissues follo... (source: Eurekalert.org) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Key new ingredient in climate model refines global predictions (source: Eurekalert.org) October 9, 2009 at 12:00 am (DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) For the first time, climate scientists from across the country have successfully incorporated the nitrogen cycle into global simulations for climate change, questioning previous assumptions regarding carbon feedback and ... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com UT's Eric Boerwinkle gets $26 million federal stimulus grant for biomedical research (source: Eurekalert.org) October 9, 2009 at 12:00 am (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Eric Boerwinkle, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, has received a $26 million federal stimulus grant to lead an effort to pinpoint genetic factors affectin... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com Paleontologists discover a new Mesozoic mammal (source: Topix.net) October 8, 2009 at 9:37 pm All modern mammals have a middle ear separated from the lower jaw . This jaw-ear separation is an important evolutionary innovation. (source: Topix.net) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Animal Name Game (source: About) October 8, 2009 at 9:37 pm The Animal Name Game is a fun and informative trivia game on the names of animals. (source: About) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Baby Animal Name Game (source: About) October 8, 2009 at 9:37 pm Do you know what a baby zebra is called? Play the Baby Animal Name Game and find out. (source: About) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com Inside the First Bird, Surprising Signs of a Dinosaur (source: Topix.net) October 8, 2009 at 9:36 pm The raptor-like Archaeopteryx has long been viewed as the archetypal first bird, but new research reveals that it was actually a lot less 'bird-like' than scientists had believed. (source: Topix.net) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com New portal for plant genomics will support research into improved crops (source: Biologynews.net) October 8, 2009 at 8:03 pm Today sees the launch of Ensembl Plants - a freely available web resource for plant genomics research - by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), in partnership with the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA.... (source: Biologynews.net) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com Rhesus macaque moms 'go gaga' for baby, too (source: Biologynews.net) October 8, 2009 at 8:03 pm The intense exchanges that human mothers share with their newborn infants may have some pretty deep roots, suggests a study of rhesus macaques reported online on October 8th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. (source: Biologynews.net) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Early hominid first walked on 2 legs in the woods (source: Biologynews.net) October 8, 2009 at 8:03 pm Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the open, grassy savanna, as generations of scientists - going ... (source: Biologynews.net) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com DNA replication times the cell cycle and contributes to the mid-blastula transition in Drosophila embryos (source: .jcb.org) October 8, 2009 at 8:03 pm Deletion of S phase disrupts mitotic timing in maternally regulated cycles, but it doesn't alter the cell cycle once zygotic transcription has begun. (source: .jcb.org) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Rhesus macaque moms 'go gaga' for baby, too (source: Biologynews.com) October 8, 2009 at 8:03 pm The intense exchanges that human mothers share with their newborn infants may have some pretty deep roots, suggests a study of rhesus macaques reported online on October 8th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. (source: Biologynews.com) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Early hominid first walked on 2 legs in the woods (source: Biologynews.com) October 8, 2009 at 8:03 pm Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the open, grassy savanna, as generations of scientists - going ... (source: Biologynews.com) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Queen Victoria's curse: New DNA evidence solves medical and murder mysteries (source: Scientific American) October 8, 2009 at 5:12 pm Queen Victoria and many of her descendants carried what was once called "Royal disease"--now known as hemophilia, a blood clotting disorder. But it has remained unknown precisely what variety of the disease afflicted the family and how many decea... (source: Scientific American) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Dinosaur Cannibalism (source: About) October 8, 2009 at 4:59 pm Gorgosaurus attacking a Parasaurolophus Paleontologists have discovered possible evidence of dinosaur cannibalism among dinosaurs known as Gorgosaurus. These enormous meat-eating animals were a smaller relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex. Upon examining the ... (source: About) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Retrovirus Linked to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Could Aid in Diagnosis (source: Scientific American) October 8, 2009 at 3:01 pm More so than many illnesses, chronic fatigue syndrome ( CFS ) frustrates those who suffer from it and those close to them, due to its nebulous assembly of symptoms, along with continued controversies over its etiology, diagnosis, treatment and even its nom... 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