ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2010) Using a new technology called “differential epistasis maps,” an international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has documented for the first time how a cellular genetic network completely rewires itself in response to stress by DNA-damaging agents.
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ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2010) The role a key molecule plays in a plant’s ability to remember winter, and therefore bloom in the spring, has been identified by University of Texas at Austin scientists.
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ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2010) Quantitative trait loci affecting egg quality — albumen thickness, blood and meat spots, fishy taint and shell durability — were identified through the mapping of the chicken genome. The results of a recent doctoral study enhance the efficiency of chicken breeding.
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 3, 2010) Humans have long taken advantage of the huge variety of medicinal compounds produced by plants. Now MIT chemists have found a new way to expand plants’ pharmaceutical repertoire by genetically engineering them to produce unnatural variants of their usual products.
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