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1. Most ancient case of tuberculosis found in 500,000-year-old human; points to modern health issues
   12-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Although most scientists believe tuberculosis emerged only several thousand years ago, new research from the University of Texas at Austin reveals the most ancient evidence of the disease has been found in a 500,000-year-old human fossil from Turkey.The discovery of the new specimen of the human species, Homo erectus, suggests support for the theory that dark-skinned people who migrate northward from low, tropical latitudes produce less vitamin D, which can adversely affect the immune system as well as the skeleton.
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2. Early Bronze Age mortuary complex discovered in Syria
   10-24-2006 · EurekAlert!
   An ancient, untouched Syrian tomb that wowed the archaeological world on its discovery by Johns Hopkins University researchers nearly six years ago is not alone. Additional excavations have yielded a total of at least eight tombs filled with human and animal remains, gold and silver treasures and unbroken artifacts dating back to the third millennium B.C.
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3. Computerized treatment of manuscripts
   09-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Researchers at the UAB Computer Vision Centre working on the automatic recognition of manuscript documents have designed a new system that is more efficient and reliable than currently existing ones. The BSM ("Blurred Shape Model") has been designed to work with ancient, damaged or difficult to read manuscripts, handwritten scores and architectural drawings. It represents at the same time an effective human machine interface in automatically reproducing documents while they are being written or drawn.
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4. Ancient retroviruses spurred evolution of gene regulatory networks in humans and other primates
   11-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Ancient retroviruses -- distant relatives of the human immunodeficiency virus -- helped a gene called p53 become an important "master gene regulator" in primates, according to a new study.
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5. Cornell researcher seeks clues to how tuberculosis infects cells
   12-21-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Cornell researchers are using advanced genetic techniques to better understand the relationship between the bacteria that cause tuberculosis and the human immune system defense cells that engulf them.
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6. Lessons from the orangutans: Upright walking may have begun in the trees
   05-31-2007 · EurekAlert!
   By observing wild orangutans, a research team has found that walking on two legs may have arisen in relatively ancient, tree-dwelling apes, rather than in more recent human ancestors that had already descended to the savannah, as current theory suggests. These findings appear in the June 1, 2007, issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS, the nonprofit science society.
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7. 'Chlamy' genome holds clues for renewable energy, the environment and human health
   10-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
   University of Minnesota researchers contributed to a national effort to sequence the genome of an ancient, one-celled organism that will help advance research in a broad range of areas, from biofuels to restoring the environment to understanding a variety of human diseases.
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8. Ancient Slow Growth: Fossil teeth show roots of human development
   03-17-2007 · Science News Online
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9. Treatment extends survival in mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy
   02-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Drug therapy can extend survival and improve movement in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), new research shows. The study, carried out at the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), suggests that similar drugs might one day be useful for treating human SMA.
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10. More human-Neandertal mixing evidence uncovered
    11-02-2006 · EurekAlert!
    A reexamination of ancient human bones from Romania reveals more evidence that humans and Neandertals interbred. Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., Washington University Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor in Arts & Sciences, and colleagues radiocarbon-dated and analyzed the shapes of human bones from Romania's Petera Muierii (Cave of the Old Woman). The fossils, discovered in 1952, add to the small number of early modern human remains from Europe known to be more than 28,000 years old.
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