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Info Mag Koyal Group DNA Discovery Reveals Surprising Dolphin Origins - 1 views

Info Mag Koyal Group DNA Discovery Reveals Surprising Dolphin Origins A well-known dolphin species, the clymene dolphin, arose from mating between two separate and distinct dolphin species, rep...

Info Mag Koyal Group DNA Discovery Reveals Surprising Dolphin Origins

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Margaret Koyal

The Koyal Group Info Mag News│Breakthrough shows how DNA is 'edited' to corre... - 1 views

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The Koyal Group Info Mag News breakthrough shows how DNA edited correct genetic diseases

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  • Margaret Koyal on 31 May 14
     
    An international team of scientists has made a major step forward in our understanding of how enzymes 'edit' genes, paving the way for correcting genetic diseases in patients. Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Münster and the Lithuanian Institute of Biotechnology have observed the process by which a class of enzymes called CRISPR - pronounced 'crisper' - bind and alter the structure of DNA. The results, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) today, provide a vital piece of the puzzle if these genome editing tools are ultimately going to be used to correct genetic diseases in humans. CRISPR enzymes were first discovered in bacteria in the 1980s as an immune defence used by bacteria against invading viruses. Scientists have more recenty shown that one type of CRISPR enzyme - Cas9 - can be used to edit the human genome - the complete set of genetic information for humans. Did you know?? Blood Test Has Potential to Predict Alzheimer's
Margaret Koyal

The Koyal Group InfoMag Tokyo News: Åben forskning går under lup - 4 views

Deler deres arbejde er at hjælpe de rivaliserende pharma giganter oprette nye lægemidler Mene Pangalos er manden til opgave med intet mindre end fyres op opdagelse motor af Storbritanniens næststø...

Koyal Group InfoMag Tokyo News Open research goes under the microscope

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The Koyal Group Info Mag - Prototype Paper Test Can Detect Ebola Strains - 1 views

DNA-programmed blotting paper could soon be giving doctors a simple disease test that will reveal an infection in 30 minutes for just a few pence. Researchers have proved the technique ...

The Koyal Group Info Mag Prototype Paper Test Can Detect Ebola Strains

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The Koyal Group Info Mag Articles: 30,000 year-old giant virus found in Siberia - 1 views

A new type of giant virus called "Pithovirus" has been discovered in the frozen ground of extreme north-eastern Siberia by researchers from the Information Génomique et Structurale laboratory (CN...

The Koyal Group Info Mag articles 30 000 year-old giant virus found in Siberia

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Lewis Sean

The Koyal Group InfoMag Tokyo News: 'STAPgate' viser grundlæggende videnskab - 4 views

'STAPgate' shows Japan must get back to basics in science Misconduct and covering it up, common in the nation's labs: experts that Jan 30 som NHK kicked off its evening news program with upbeat ...

The Koyal Group InfoMag Tokyo News 'STAPgate' shows Japan must get back to basics in science

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Margaret Koyal

Scientists add Letters to DNA's Alphabet by The Koyal Group InfoMag News - 1 views

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The Koyal Group InfoMag News Scientists Letters to DNA's Alphabet Hope and Fear

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  • Margaret Koyal on 15 May 14
     
    Scientists reported Wednesday that they had taken a significant step toward altering the fundamental alphabet of life - creating an organism with an expanded artificial genetic code in its DNA. The accomplishment might eventually lead to organisms that can make medicines or industrial products that cells with only the natural genetic code cannot. The scientists behind the work at the Scripps Research Institute have already formed a company to try to use the technique to develop new antibiotics, vaccines and other products, though a lot more work needs to be done before this is practical. The work also gives some support to the concept that life can exist elsewhere in the universe using genetics different from those on Earth. "This is the first time that you have had a living cell manage an alien genetic alphabet," said Steven A. Benner, a researcher in the field at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Fla., who was not involved in the new work. But the research, published online by the journal Nature, is bound to raise safety concerns and questions about whether humans are playing God. The new paper could intensify calls for greater regulation of the budding field known as synthetic biology, which involves the creation of biological systems intended for specific purposes.
Margaret Koyal

The Koyal Group InfoMag News: Big Science More Important Than Ever - 1 views

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The Koyal Group InfoMag News Big Science

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  • Margaret Koyal on 17 May 14
     
    Alvin M. Weinberg introduced the term "big science" into the national lexicon in 1961. Big science is research that requires the coordination of massive resources, including thousands of our best minds and cutting-edge technologies to solve massive, complex problems. With visionary gusto, Weinberg wrote that "the monuments of big science, the huge rockets, the high-energy accelerators, the high-flux research reactors ... will be symbols of our time as surely as Notre Dame is a symbol of the Middle Ages." The concept of big science is especially timely in a highly charged political environment with the debate focused on the Affordable Care Act, streamlining services and controlling costs. As a result, vital research often gets short shrift. Big science is expensive and time-consuming, but the results can have exponential benefits: the potential for dramatically improved health outcomes throughout the world.
Margaret Koyal

The Koyal Group InfoMag News: Work Together to Complete a "Social Revolution" - 2 views

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The Koyal Group InfoMag News Work Together to Complete a "Social Revolution " Says Baccalaureate Speaker

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  • Margaret Koyal on 24 May 14
     
    Molecular biologist Nancy Hopkins, the Amgen, Inc., Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recalled personal trials as a female scientist and challenged graduates to overcome invisible barriers in an inspiring Baccalaureate Address to the Class of 2014 at Marsh Chapel Sunday morning. She mentioned some of the great breakthroughs of the last 50 years: the internet, the Higgs particle, and notably, the "discovery of unconscious biases and the extent to which stereotypes about gender, race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and age deprive people of equal opportunity in the workplace and equal justice in society." Hopkins was later awarded an honorary Doctor of Science at BU's 141st Commencement. She spoke before a packed audience at Marsh Chapel and was enthusiastically applauded for her remarks. President Robert A. Brown, University Provost Jean Morrison, Marsh Chapel Dean Robert Hill, and Emma Rehard (CAS'14) also addressed the graduates and their families. Scott Allen Jarrett (CFA'99,'08), director of music at Marsh Chapel, led the Marsh Chapel Choir in "Clarissima" and "For the Beauty of the Earth." Early in her career, Hopkins worked in the lab of James Watson, the codiscoverer of the structure of DNA. She earned a PhD at Harvard and became a faculty member at MIT, working at the Center for Cancer Research. There, she focused her research on RNA tumor viruses, then considered to be a likely cause for many cancers in humans. Hopkins also studied developmental genetics in zebra fish, and helped to design the first successful method for making insertional mutagenesis work in a vertebrate model.
Lewis Sean

The Koyal Group Info Mag Review: Yeti's a Bear, Say Scientists, But What Kind? - 1 views

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The Koyal Group Info Mag Review Yeti's a Bear Say Scientists But What Kind

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  • Lewis Sean on 18 Mar 15
     
    In legend, Yeti is a huge and furry human-resembling creature also referred to as the Abominable Snowman, but in science, Yeti is just a bear. Now the question is: what kind of bear? A new study, published in the journal ZooKeys, concludes that hair sample "evidence" for Yeti actually comes from Himalayan brown bears. The finding refutes an earlier study that the hair belonged to an unknown type of bear related to polar bears. Top 10 Reasons Why Bigfoot's a Bust At the center of the controversy are DNA analysis studies. Prior research, led by Bryan Sykes at the University of Oxford, determined that hairs formerly attributed to Yeti belonged to to a mysterious bear species that may not yet be known to science. Sykes told Discovery News that his paper "refers to two Himalayan samples attributed to yetis and which turned out to be related to an ancient polar bear. This may be the source of the legend in the Himalayas." The new study, however, calls this possibility into question. The research, in this case, was authored by Eliécer E. Gutiérrez of the Smithsonian Institution and Ronald Pine at the University of Kansas.
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The Koyal Group Info Mag: How turning science into a game rouses more public interest - 0 views

Chris Lintott first met Kevin Schawinski in the summer of 2007 at the astrophysics department of the University of Oxford. Lintott had just finished a PhD at the University College of London on sta...

The Koyal Group Info Mag How turning science into a game rouses more public interest

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