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- Rising to a global health challenge, students coax yeast cells to add vitamins to bread
- 'Junk DNA' defines differences between humans and chimps
- New test can precisely pinpoint food pathogens
- Geoscientists find key to why some patients get infections from cardiac implants
- 3-D analysis yields insight into shape, structure of bacteria’s chromosome
| Rising to a global health challenge, students coax yeast cells to add vitamins to bread Posted: 25 Oct 2011 11:35 AM PDT Any way you slice it, bread that contains critical nutrients could help combat malnutrition in impoverished regions. That is the goal of a group of undergraduate students who are enhancing common yeast so that it makes vitamin-producing bread.  |
| 'Junk DNA' defines differences between humans and chimps Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:26 AM PDT DNA sequences for human and chimpanzees are nearly identical, despite vast phenotypical differences between the two species. Researchers have determined that the insertion and deletion of large pieces of DNA near genes are highly variable between humans and chimpanzees and may account for these major differences.  |
| New test can precisely pinpoint food pathogens Posted: 25 Oct 2011 08:35 AM PDT A new test developed by a team led of scientists will enable government agencies and food companies to pinpoint the exact nature and origin of food-borne bacteria with unprecedented accuracy.  |
| Geoscientists find key to why some patients get infections from cardiac implants Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:24 AM PDT New research suggests that some patients develop a potentially deadly blood infection from their implanted cardiac devices because bacterial cells in their bodies have gene mutations that allow them to stick to the devices.  |
| 3-D analysis yields insight into shape, structure of bacteria’s chromosome Posted: 21 Oct 2011 09:57 AM PDT Researchers have deciphered the complete three-dimensional structure of the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus's chromosome. Analysis of the resulting structure has revealed new insights into the function of genetic sequences responsible for the shape and structure of this genome.  |
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