Biology

Biology

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  Genetics may explain severe flu in Chinese people

  A genetic variant commonly found in Chinese people may help explain why some got seriously ill with swine flu, a discovery scientists say could help ... 

• Study: Digital information can be stored in DNA

  It can store the information from a million CDs in a space no bigger than your little finger and could keep it safe for centuries. Is this some new ... 

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  Nobel scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini dies in Rome

  Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping ... 

• German scientists seek to clone perfect Xmas trees

  The hunt for the perfect Christmas tree may soon become a lot easier: just pick a nice clone. That's what German scientists are now working on: They ... 

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  EU says more need to use science to cut fish quota

  The European Union's executive Commission is calling for a new approach to protect dwindling fishery stocks and eliminate a system of setting catch ... 

• Amgen buying deCODE Genetics for $415 million

  Biotech pioneer Amgen Inc., in a bid for a big edge in using people's genetic information to find better ways to attack diseases, is buying human ... 

• US: Lack of sea ice changes walrus behavior

  U.S. scientists say a lack of summer sea ice is changing the behavior of Pacific walruses. They don't know what the effect will be, but they worry ... 

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  NZealand beaching proves rarest of whales exists

  The spade-toothed beaked whale is so rare that nobody has seen one alive, but scientists have proof the species still exists. Two skeletons were ... 

• Oregon scientists make embryos with 2 women, 1 man

  Scientists have created embryos with genes from one man and two women, using a provocative technique that could someday be used to prevent babies from ... 

• Here are the winners of this year's Nobel Prizes

  Here are the winners of this year's Nobel prizes by category: — ECONOMICS Americans Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley for the theory of stable allocations ... 

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  Scientist who helped clone sheep Dolly dies

  Keith Campbell, a prominent biologist who worked on cloning Dolly the sheep, has died at 58, the University of Nottingham said Thursday. Campbell, who ... 

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  2 US scientists win Nobel chemistry prize

  Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for studies of how the cells in our bodies pick up signals as diverse as hormones, smells, ... 

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  Nobel awarded for stem cell, early cloning work

  Two scientists from different generations won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be ... 

• Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine

  Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation: — 2012: Briton John Gurdon and ... 

• Two-day test can spot gene diseases in newborns

  Too often, newborns die of genetic diseases before doctors even know what is to blame. Now scientists have found a way to decode those babies' DNA in ... 

• Gene mutations blamed for many mental disabilities

  More than half the cases of severe intellectual disability caused by genetic defects are the result of random mutations, not inherited, a European ... 

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  Mammoth fragments from Siberia raise cloning hopes

  Scientists have discovered well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth fragments deep in Siberia that may contain living cells, edging a tad closer to the ... 

• Balzan winners include NYU law professor

  A U.S. law professor-philosopher, a British botanist, a German-born music historian and an Australian climate expert have won this year's Balzan ... 

• Radiation may up breast cancer risk in some women

  Mammograms aimed at finding breast cancer might actually raise the chances of developing it in young women whose genes put them at higher risk for the ...