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2,448 results for: mutations

  1. Humans

    Genes on Display

    DNA becomes part of the artist's palette.

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  2. Sound Off

    By using bits of RNA to eliminate the effects of selected genes, scientists are developing new ways to study gene function and treat diseases.

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  3. Two-handed protein may protect DNA

    An unusually shaped protein may help a bacterium thrive in tough times.

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  4. Archaeology

    Rat DNA points to Pacific migrations

    An analysis of mitochondrial DNA from Pacific rats supports a theory that ancestors of today's Polynesians migrated from Southeast Asia to a string of South Pacific islands in at least two separate dispersals.

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  5. Cancer Flip-Flop: Gene acts in both proliferation and control of growth

    Scientists have identified what might be a new class of cancer-controlling genes that alternates between halting and promoting cancer.

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  6. Teams implicate new gene in prostate cancer

    A newly discovered gene may, in rare cases, cause prostate cancer or, more commonly, raise a man's risk of developing the disease.

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  7. Human genes take evolutionary turns

    Researchers have identified a set of genes that has evolved an extensive pattern of alterations unique to people.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Bug bites suggest new stroke drug

    Changing a human enzyme so that it resembles one from blood-sucking insects may lead to a new treatment for strokes.

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  9. Anthropology

    In the Neandertal Mind

    Neandertals possessed much the same mental capacity as ancient people did, but a genetically inspired memory boost toward the end of the Stone Age may have allowed Homo sapiens to prosper while Neandertals died out.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Figuring Out Fibroids

    Researchers now have a better understanding of which women develop fibroids and what causes them.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Assault on Autism

    A shift in scientific thinking about what causes autism is prompting a closer look at potential environmental factors.

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  12. Humans

    Science News of the Year 2005

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2005.

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