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8 hrs ago | Encyclopaedia Britannica

Kary B. Mullis

IMAGES Aspects of the topic "Kary B. Mullis" are discussed in the following places at Britannica development of polymerase chain reaction ) Other The following is a selection of items associated with "Kary B. Mullis" ARTICLE American chemist in full Kary Banks Mullis born Dec.

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Thu Dec 24, 2009

Science's STKE

[ST NetWatch] The Genetic Science Learning Center

The Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah offers a wealth of learning resources on the topics of genetics and cell and molecular biology.

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Related Topix: University of Utah, Biology, Science, Cell Biology

Tue Dec 22, 2009

The Independent

Steve Connor: Biologists run ahead in research funding race

Science in Britain appears to be undergoing a financial schism between bio-medical sciences and the physical sciences.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Nuclear Energy

Mon Dec 21, 2009

ECNmag

Making New Enzymes to Engineer Plants for Biofuel Production

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have created a new enzyme and demonstrated its potential ability to interfere with the production of lignin, a key cell-wall component in plants.

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Related Topix: Department of Energy, Biology, Science, Chemistry

Sun Dec 20, 2009

R & D

Scientists take a step towards uncovering the histone code

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have determined the structures of two enzymes that customize histones, the spool-like proteins around which DNA coils inside the cell.

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Medical News Today

TAU Researchers Unravel The Mysteries Of DNA Packaging

Main Category: Genetics Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 20 Dec 2009 - 0:00 PST Imagine a huge spool of film containing thousands of sequences of random scenes.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Genetics, Biochemistry, Health

Sat Dec 19, 2009

CiteULike

Probing 3'-ssDNA loop formation in E. coli RecBCD/RecBC-DNA complexes ...

Probing 3'-ssDNA loop formation in E. coli RecBCD/RecBC-DNA complexes using non-natural DNA: a model for "Chi" recognition complexes.

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Thu Dec 17, 2009

CiteULike

DNA watermarks: a proof of concept.

Vincent_Rouilly's tags for this article Vincent_Rouilly Abstract BACKGROUND: DNA-based watermarks are helpful tools to identify the unauthorized use of genetically modified organisms protected by patents.

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Wed Dec 16, 2009

Huntington News

Rahall Announces $930K in Recovery Act Grant for MU

Dec. 16, 2009 Rahall Announces $930K in Recovery Act Grant for MU Special to Huntingtonnews.net Washington, DC -- U.S. Rep.

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Tue Dec 15, 2009

Nature Publishing Group

Rapid quantification of DNA methylation by measuring relative peak...

E-mail: drlu@fudan.edu.cn Received 8 May 2009; Revised 19 August 2009; Accepted 29 September 2009; Published online 14 December 2009.

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Mon Dec 14, 2009

R & D

DNA needs a good editor

Imagine a huge spool of film containing thousands of sequences of random scenes.

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Nucleic Acids Research

Universal function-specificity of codon usage

Anne de Bellevue, Montreal, Quebec, H9X3V9, 2McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Duff Medical Building, 3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A2B4, Canada, 3Department of Molecular Biology and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544, USA and 4Department of Biochemistry, McGill ...

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Sun Dec 13, 2009

EurekAlert!

Scripps Research scientists crack mystery of protein's dual function

December 10, 2009-Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have solved a 10-year-old mystery of how a single protein from an ancient family of enzymes can have two completely distinct roles in the body.

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Jamaica Gleaner

UWI introduces advanced forensics degree

Dr Wayne McLaughlin, coordinator of the new Master of Science degree programme in forensics, to be offered at the University of the West Indies, starting September 2010.

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Sat Dec 12, 2009

Nucleic Acids Research

Evolutionarily conserved proteins MnmE and GidA catalyze the...

Tel: +34 96 328 9680; Fax: +34 96 328 9701; Email: armengod{at}cipf.es Received June 27, 2009.

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Fri Dec 11, 2009

EurekAlert!

Novel detection method unmasks circulating breast cancer cells

Circulating metastatic breast cancer cells can lose their epithelial receptors, a process that enables them to travel through the bloodstream undetected, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Biology, Science

Thu Dec 10, 2009

Physics Blog

Scientists find way to catalog all that goes wrong in a cancer cell

A team of Princeton University scientists has produced a systematic listing of the ways a particular cancerous cell has "gone wrong," giving researchers a powerful tool that eventually could make possible new, more targeted therapies for patients.

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Related Topix: Cancer, Health, Princeton University, Biology, Science

Science Daily

Ovaries Must Suppress Their Inner Male

Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany and the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill, UK discovered that if a specific gene located on a non-sex chromosome is turned off, cells in the ovaries of adult female mice turn into cells typically found in testes.

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Nucleic Acids Research

tRNA over-expression in breast cancer and functional consequences

Tel: 773-702-0380; Fax: 773-702-4476; Email: m-rosner{at}uchicago.edu Correspondence may also be addressed to Tao Pan.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Biochemistry, University of Chicago

Science Daily

Nature's solution to age-old chemical paradox: Chemical basis for...

Nature's Solution to Age-Old Chemical Paradox: Chemical Basis for Extra 'Quality Control' in Protein Production ScienceDaily - Even small errors made by cells during protein production can have profound disease effects, and nature has developed ways to uncover these mistakes and correct them.

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