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    Biologists on the Verge of Creating New Form of Life
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    by Mohir  9-9-2008   
     "We've made more progress on how the membrane of a protocell could grow and divide," Szostak said in a phone interview. "What we can do now is copy a limited set of simple sequences, but we need to be able to copy arbitrary sequences so that sequences could evolve that do something useful." By doing "something useful" for the cell, these genes would launch the new form of life down the Darwinian evolutionary path similar to the one that our oldest living ancestors must have traveled. Though where selective pressure will lead the new form of life is impossible to know.
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    Scientists Develop New Computational Method To Investigate Origin Of Life
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    by Mohir  9-3-2008   
     "Retroelements are an ancient and highly diverse class of proteins; therefore, they provide a rigorous benchmark for us to test our approach. We are happy with the results we derived, even though our method is in an early stage," said Patterson. The team plans to make the algorithms that they used in their method available to others as open-source software that is freely available on the Web. Scientists map out the evolutionary histories of organisms by comparing their genetic and/or protein sequences. Those organisms that are closely related and share a recent common ancestor have greater degrees of similarity among their sequences.
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    Polygamy is the key to a long life
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    by Mohir  8-19-2008    11
     Men, by contrast, can reproduce well into their 60s and even 70s and 80s, and most researchers assumed this explained their longevity. But Lummaa and colleague Andy Russell wondered whether other factors explained the long lifespan of men, such as a grandfather effect. If female survival is the main explanation for male longevity, then monogamous and polygamous men would live for about the same length of time. Instead, it seems that fathering more kids with more wives leads to increased male longevity. Men, then, live long because they're fertile well into their grey years. The explanation could be both social and genetic. Men who continue fathering kids into their 60s and 70s could take better care for their bodies because they have mouths to feed. But evolutionary forces acting over thousands of years could also select for longer-lived men in polygamous cultures.
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    Future 'Top 10' Hot Careers in 2012
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    by Mohir  8-11-2008    3
     5) Simulation Engineering By 2012, an increase in processing power and rich data will make simulations more realistic, and user-friendly. Simulation engineers will be working on bringing us closer to “Star Trek’s” Holodecks—the ultimate total immersion simulation. Simulations will be in every industry and every engineering field, 6) Boomer Caregiving 7) Genetic Counseling 8) Brain Analysts 9) Space Tourism 10) Roboticists
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    The Sound of Sight
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    by Mohir  8-5-2008    1
     Both groups judged auditory patterns accurately about 85 percent of the time, the researchers report in the August 5 issue of Current Biology. On the visual trials, nonsynesthetes’ judgments fell to nearly chance levels, a result that corroborates other research showing that most people are better at judging auditory patterns than assessing visual patterns. In contrast, synesthetes—who reported hearing sounds such as beeps or taps in time with the visual signals—distinguished matching from nonmatching rhythms 75 percent of the time.
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    Understanding Hearing, Molecule By Molecule
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    by Mohir  7-13-2008   
     other sensory system in biology and the electrical engineering world is capable of this feat. “It’s one of the most beautifully deigned systems in the body,” says Manfred Auer of Berkeley Lab's Life Sciences Division. “But how it really works remains a mystery. Our goal is to determine what the system looks like, so we can determine how it functions.”
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    Susan Blackmore on Memes and Temes
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    by Mohir  6-4-2008    3
     Video at source.
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    Love in the octopus' garden
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    by Mohir  4-2-2008   
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    Major Advance In Biofuel Technology: Trash Today, Ethanol Tomorrow
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    by Mohir  3-11-2008   
     Major Advance In Biofuel Technology: Trash Today, Ethanol Tomorrow
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    Bacteria Use 'Invisibility Cloak' To Hide From Human Immune System
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    by Mohir  2-24-2008   
     Dr Gavin Thomas, of the Department of Biology, who led the research said: "This novel enzyme, as well as other steps required for the formation of the 'invisibility cloak' that we have discovered in York, now offers the chance to develop novel antimicrobials against these bacteria."
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    Are Aliens Among Us?
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    by Mohir  11-20-2007   
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    New Evidence For Female Control In Reproduction
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    by Mohir  11-20-2007   
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    First embryonic stem cells from adult cells
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    by Mohir  11-20-2007   
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    Scientists claim monkey stem cell advance
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    by Mohir  11-14-2007   
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    Bacteria of the Living Dead
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    by Mohir  10-31-2007    3
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    Clam claims oldest animal record - 405 years
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    by Mohir  10-29-2007   
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    Gene switch altered sex orientation of worms
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    by Mohir  10-27-2007    1
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    Could quantum effects explain consciousness?
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    by Mohir  10-23-2007    2
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    Ants have a sense of their own mortality
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    by Mohir  10-15-2007    6
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    New Hearing Mechanism Discovered
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    by Mohir  10-12-2007   
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    Early Apes Walked Upright 15 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought,
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    by Mohir  10-11-2007    1
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    First new artificial life form created
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    by Mohir  10-7-2007    2
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    Beyond A 'Speed Limit' On Mutations, Species Risk Extinction
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    by Mohir  10-4-2007    2
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    6 Die From Brain-Eating Amoeba in Lakes
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    by Mohir  9-30-2007    1
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    Personal Genomes: Mainstream In Five Years
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    by Mohir  9-21-2007    1
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    Scientists a step nearer to creating artificial life
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    by Mohir  9-6-2007    1
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    One Species' Entire Genome Discovered Inside Another'sd
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    by Mohir  8-31-2007   
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    Artificial life likely in 3 to 10 years
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    by Mohir  8-20-2007    4
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    Half-Squid, Half-Octopus Discovered Off of Hawaii
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    by Mohir  7-7-2007   
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    50 Years of the Multiverse Interpretation
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    by Mohir  7-7-2007   
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    Earliest-known Evidence Of Peanut, Cotton And Squash Farming Found
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    by Mohir  6-30-2007   
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    Humanlike Mouse Stem Cells Discovered
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    by Mohir  6-28-2007   
     BTW does anyone knows what happened to Clipversity
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    Dying star generates the stuff of life
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    by Mohir  6-28-2007    1
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    Modified Mushrooms May Yield Human Drugs
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    by Mohir  6-25-2007   
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    Anti-cholesterol gene found in Italians
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    by Mohir  6-21-2007   
     Lucky Italians :)
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    Male twins can reduce their sisters' fertility
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    by Mohir  6-19-2007   
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    How Coffee Raises Cholesterol
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    by Mohir  6-15-2007   
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    Gecko's gravity-defying trick explained
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    by Mohir  6-14-2007   
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    Color Pattern Spurs Speciation In Tropical Fish
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    by Mohir  6-14-2007   
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    Origins Of Nervous System Found In Genes Of Sea Sponge
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    by Mohir  6-6-2007    2
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