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Fat fish put obesity on the hook

...gy physiology and genetics in this case – can be brought to bear on human problems.” According the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the prevalence of overweight and obesity have risen steadily over the past 30 years. Among adults aged 20–74 years the prevalence of obesity increased from ...

Weizmann Institute scientists develop a general 'control switch' for protein activity

...ity of an engineered protein. Such activity can be brought to a desired level or returned to its natural level, at specific locations in the body and at specific times – all this by giving exact and well-timed doses of the same simple drug. In addition, the method could be used one day in gene therapy. I...

Warning from Asian bees

...cal industry, beset by poor yields and low prices, brought on by the drought. “The bee industry had a reasonable summer honey crop, but domestic prospects for the next two years look very bleak,” Dr Somerville said. “There will be very few eucalypt flowerings in the next 12 months, which will lead to a...

Physicist cracks women's random but always lucky choice of X chromosome

... key moment in this process both X chromosomes are brought close together within the cell. The Warwick researcher paper says that what happens next is that material for a "protein plug" then begins to gather around both of the XIST suicide genes on each X Chromosome. This starts a race between the two build ...

New bacterium discovered -- related to cause of trench fever

...ed.” The cat scratch bacteria and the one that brought down soldiers and AIDS patients can be reined in with the same antibiotic, but the Peruvian microbe is usually countered with different antibiotics, Koehler says. Also, caregivers, and medical staff need to know about the different species, so, for e...

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