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The local campaign pressuring Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) to support health care reform accelerated on Thursday, after a group of more than 650 Yale University students, faculty and staff urged him to reconsider his threat to filibuster legislation.In two letters to the Connecticut Independent -- who is an alumnus of Ya (Read More)
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NEW YORK — Looking for love? Try leaning in for a ... cheek swab.A couple of genetic testing companies are promising to match couples based on the DNA testing, touting the benefits of biological compatibility. The companies claim that a better biological match will mean better sex, less cheating, longer-lasting love (Read More)
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Under optimum conditions, any adult cell can be coaxed into becoming stem-cell like, according to a team of researchers in the United States.Led by Rudolf Jaenisch of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the researchers could speed up the process, cutting the time required for cells t (Read More)
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The public sectors of developing countries require strengthened capacity in health informatics. In Peru, where formal university graduate degrees in biomedical and health informatics were lacking until recently, the AMAUTA Global Informatics Research and Training Program has provided research and training for health profess (Read More)
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The president tours a Maryland cancer lab to underscore the biomedical research grants, which are funded under the federal economic stimulus program. President Obama toured a Maryland cancer lab Wednesday to call attention to $5 billion i (Read More)
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Background:The purpose of this study was to identify candidate metastasis suppressor genes from a mouse allograft model of prostate cancer (NE-10). This allograft model originally developed metastases by twelve weeks after implantation in male athymic nude mice, but lost the ability to metastasize after a number of in vivo (Read More)
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Background:Academic social tagging systems, such as Connotea and CiteULike, provide researchers with a means to organize personal collections of online references with keywords (tags) and to share these collections with others. One of the side-effects of the operation of these systems is the generation of large, publicly a (Read More)
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Biomedical research could someday look a lot like playing video games thanks to a new device that allows users to manipulate cells with the swerve of a joystick. (Read More)
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One of the nation's most respected biomedical research and treatment centers, City Of Hope's mission is to save as many lives worldwide as possible through cancer research and prevention.Now that football season has begun, they're getting much more attention as the official charity of Fox Sports Supports. On Fox Sports foot (Read More)
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Background:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a family of ~22 nucleotide small RNA molecules which regulate gene expression by fully or partially binding to their complementary sequences in mRNAs or promoters. A large number of miRNAs and their expression patterns have been reported in human, mouse and rat. However, miRNAs and their ex (Read More)
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Background:Like humans, the living elephants are unusual among mammals in being sparsely covered with hair. Relative to extant elephants, the extinct woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, had a dense hair cover and extremely long hair, which likely were adaptations to its subarctic habitat. The fibroblast growth factor 5 ( (Read More)
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Background:The ability to generate transcriptional data on the scale of entire genomes has been a boon both in the improvement of biological understanding and in the amount of data generated. The latter, the amount of data generated, has implications when it comes to effective storage, analysis and sharing of these data. A (Read More)
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Background:Statistical power calculations are a critical part of any study design for gene mapping. Most calculations assume that the locus of interest is biallelic. However, there are common situations in human genetics such as X-linked loci in males where the locus is haploid. The purpose of this work is to mathematically (Read More)