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St. Jude study yields secrets of chromosome movement
06-14-2007 · EurekAlert!Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have used the lowly yeast to gain insights into how a dividing human cell ensures that an identical set of chromosomes gets passed on to each new daughter cell.
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For more than a decade, John de Ruiter's taciturn ways have managed to attract thousands of people from around the world to join his religious movement. A University of Alberta researcher has been exploring why the Ruiter's silent approach has been so successful.
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- Major gene study uncovers secrets of leukemia
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Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered previously unsuspected mutations that contribute to the formation of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common cancer in children. The discovery not only suggests novel methods for treating pediatric ALL, but also provides a roadmap for the identification of unsuspected mutations in adult cancers.
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- Tears reveal some of their deepest secrets to researchers
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- New protein implicated in autism
03-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Study shows metabolic strategy of stressed cell
03-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- A chilling solution -- Measuring below-ground carbon without destroying trees
12-05-2006 · EurekAlert!
USDA Forest Service (FS) researchers have provided the first proof of concept for a method that allows scientists to study below-ground carbon allocation in trees without destroying them. In the latest issue of the journal Plant, Cell & Environment, Kurt Johnsen and fellow researchers at the FS Southern Research Station unit in Research Triangle Park, NC, describe a reversible, non-destructive chilling method that stops the movement of carbon into root systems.
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- Unravelling the risk for schizophrenia -- Eye movement and attention focus of new study
02-21-2007 · EurekAlert!
A Binghamton University researcher has established a new framework to help determine whether individuals might be at risk for schizophrenia. In a study published in this month's Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Mark F. Lenzenweger, a professor of clinical science, neuroscience and cognitive psychology at Binghamton University, State University of New York (SUNY), is the first to have found that abnormalities in eye movements and attention can be used to divide people into two groups in relation to schizophrenia-related risk.
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- Revealing estrogen's secret role in obesity
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- Quantum secrets of photosynthesis revealed
04-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
The mystery of how Nature, through photosynthesis, is able to transfer solar energy through molecular systems with nearly 100-percent efficiency appears to have been solved. A study led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley reports that the answer lies in quantum mechanical effects.
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