Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
European leaders started the 13th crisis summit in 21 months seeking a breakthrough over how to stamp out the Greece-led debt shock that threatens to tip the world into a recession.
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Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Science is probably overcoming a major milestone in patient-specific stem cell technology that will likely pave the way for cell-based therapies for life-threatening and/or chronic diseases, such as diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, etc., scientists from NYSCF and Columbia University reported in the journal Nature. Dieter Egli, Scott Noggle and team have ...
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
A research team from the University of Leicester say they have discovered the nerve cells in the brain that are responsible for coping with stress. Neuroscientists seem to have made an important move forwards in their understanding of stress and the brain's role in mitigating its impact. They ...
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, reported that they have achieved optimization RNA-Seq (Quantification) library construction with total RNA inputs as low as 100 ng. This breakthrough enables the application of RNA-Seq (Quantification) technology to experimental designs utilizing samples derived from small numbers of cells, such as those widely used ...
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Monday, September 12th, 2011
British, European and American researchers have discovered 16 new gene regions that play key roles in blood pressure levels, according to an article published in Nature Genetics and Nature. The articles were published by the International Consortium for Blood Pressure Genome-Wide Association Studies. The authors say their breakthrough represents an ...
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