Human metabolism recreated in lab
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Researchers say they have created a "virtual" model of all the biochemical reactions that occur in human cells.
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Healthy mice are successfully cloned from skin cells taken from adult mice, US researchers report.
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Computer engineers could - in theory at least - reconstruct the genes of an animal that lived more than 75 million years ago. No DNA could possibly survive that long, but forensic scientists now routinely
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The first synthetic genome is pieced together by scientists, the next-to-last step in creating man-made life.
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Scientists working to build a life form from scratch have patented the method they plan to use.
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US scientists have discovered how fat is stored in the body's cells - promising new treatments for obesity.
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AN Australian company has developed the first weight-loss pill that kick-starts the human body&#39;s metabolism to help people burn fat without the need for strict diets or exercise.
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By altering a gene, scientists have produced "marathon mice" with more muscle, less fat, and twice the endurance of regular mice. The find could lead to new anti-obesity drugs.
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Evolutionary experiments on microbes are under way in many laboratories and scientists can observer bacteria adapt over 40,000 generations of living in a beaker.
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Researchers say they have found the chemical switch that triggers the mechanism regulating body clocks.
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The experiment is part of an explosion in the new field of synthetic biology.
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Scientists measure energy levels inside living heart cells, which could ultimately aid heart attack recovery.
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A recent study initiated by drug manufacturing company DeCode Genetics of Reykjavik, has come up with startling results. The report was published in âPloS Medicineâ, the on-line journal.
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Peter Cummins lay still as doctors administered 20 injections into the 81-year-old's calves and thighs, hoping the genetic experiment will spur new blood vessels to grow around his clogged leg arteries.    The experiment at the National Institutes of Health marks a resurgence in attempts to get the body to grow its own bypasses, at first in the legs and, if that works, perhaps later in the heart...
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It's another step in the quest to create artificial organisms: Scientists have synthesized the complete DNA of a type of bacteria. The experiment, published online Thursday by the journal Science, isn't a living germ, just its genetic structure.
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Scientists have developed a way to produce a pure source of muscle cells, a technique that might one day prove useful for treating muscle-related diseases.
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University of Toronto researchers have identified cells in an adult mouse pancreas capable of generating insulin-producing beta cells.