Sunday, March 27, 2016

CRI Researchers Link Absence of Protein to Liver Tissue Regeneration


“This research gives us ideas about new ways to treat liver damage or chronic liver disease,” said senior author Dr. Hao Zhu, an Assistant Professor at CRI with joint appointments in Internal …


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Wave of the future – cutting and pasting genes


Anyone familiar with a word-processing program has much experience cutting and pasting for editing text and even images. Although “gene editing” for eventually treating and even curing human diseases …


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There's an intact ancient virus lying dormant in human DNA


Research has shown that our DNA houses the ghosts of viruses fended off by your ancestors, and some of those viruses could still be dangerous if they wake up. And now scientists just found more of …


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10 Ways To Reduce Your Waste


You may have heard of the “Zero Waste Lifestyle”, with lifestyle leaders such as New York’s Lauren Singer or Northern California’s Bea Johnson reducing their landfill waste so much that it fits into a jar (Singer based her lifestyle off Johnson, who achieves this with a family of 4 & a small dog)...


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Closing in on HIV?


With the help of vaccines, infectious diseases that have haunted humanity for thousands of years have been turned into historical curiosities. Smallpox, which killed from 300 million to 500 million …


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