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DNA sequencing technology to reveal the animal and plant composition

of traditional Chinese medicines

These plants contain chemicals that can be toxic if the wrong dosage is taken, but none of them actually listed concentrations on the packaging.”

epigenetics, the study of how people’s experience and environment affect the function of their genes.

Studies suggest that such add-on, or epigenetic, markers develop as an animal adapts to its environment, whether in the womb or out in the world — and the markers can profoundly affect behavior.

In studies of rats, researchers have shown that affectionate mothering alters the expression of genes, allowing them to dampen their physiological response to stress. These biological buffers are then passed on to the next generation: rodents and nonhuman primates biologically primed to handle stress tend to be more nurturing to their own offspring, and the system is thought to work similarly in humans.

Milk and meat from ‘cloned’ animals’ offspring could soon be on sale without any labels

The UK government has no objection to selling meat and milk from clones.

There are currently just over 100 offspring of cloned animals on British farms, but this will rise dramatically if the EC gets its way.

three years of producing the first-ever buffalo animal clone, Indian scientists have now successfully cloned the world's first pashmi

The cloned baby is kept under medical observation at the off campus sheep breeding centre and is in "fine health"

The cloned was produced with the help of a cost-effective "hand guided t

human stem cells can be genetically engineered into HIV-fighting cells

surrogate model

CD8 cytotoxic T lymphocytes -- the "killer" T cells that help fight infection -- from an HIV-infected individual and identified the molecule known as the T cell receptor, which guides the T cell in recognizing and killing HIV-infected cells.

microbes in bee colonies that have previously been associated with fermentation in humans and other animals

communities of active bacteria harbored by honey bee colonies

research suggests honey bees may take advantage of these beneficial symbiotic bacteria to convert indigestible material into nutritious food and to enhance protection from pathogens

Why having sex really IS the best thing to do

is better for evolution than self-reproduction

Having sex allows us to evolve more effectively than species which reproduce without a partner, according to tests that claim to finally prove the long-held theory.

preserved remains of a shaggy monster that lived in Siberia at -40°C 10,000 years ago have been uncovered;

The frozen and p

Only microscopic amounts of DNA are left on the skeletons, including all the bacteria that lived on the animals. No usable DNA is therefore often found in bone, but mammoth hair is plentiful. Shampooed and bleached and digested, the hair, even at 18,000 years old, can have 90% of the DNA left. The genome shows 4 different "races" of this species. Research has also shown the recreated blood of mammoth. It doesn't decrease its oxygen capacity at the low temperatures the mammoth had to endure. That increased oxygen-offloading ability was one of the essential physiological changes evolved especially for this species, just like the Yuka kidney.