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Double Success For Instituto Gulbenkian De Ciencia Scientists Working On Chromosome Segregation
04 July 2009
Lars Jansen's work on the formation of the centromere, a key cellular structure in powering and controlling chromosome segregation and accurate cell division, has just earned him a paper in Nature Cell Biology and a...
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Connection Between Cancer And Human Evolution Revealed By Ben-Gurion U. Researchers
04 July 2009
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have discovered that gene mutations that once helped humans survive may increase the possibility for diseases, including cancer...
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"Jumping Gene" Diminishes The Effect Of A New Type 2 Diabetes Risk Gene
04 July 2009
Research led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) has identified a new gene associated with diabetes, together with a mechanism that makes obese mice less susceptible to diabetes...
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