Scientists Crack Chicken&#39;s Genetic Code
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Scientists have cracked the genetic code of the chicken, showing it shares about 60 percent of its genes with humans and has a common ancestor that lived about 310 million years ago.
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A new US study says about 60% of the genes in chickens are closely related to those found in humans. In fact, the recently deciphered chicken genome should prove a valuable tool for learning about the human
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The latest creature to have its DNA fully decoded is the chicken. Scientists from 49 countries announce the completion of the International Chicken Genome Sequencing Project today in the science journal Nature.
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Researchers have reconstructed a long string of genetic code for what they believe is the common ancestor of placental mammals - a shrewlike creature that lived in Asia more than 75 million years ago.
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Scientists in Dundee find a potential link between a chicken gene and human diseases.
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Scientists have decoded the complete sequence of all DNA in the bacterium responsible for potentially deadly Legionnaires' disease.
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Scientists who synthesized two genes from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic said on Thursday they have a found new clues about what made it so deadly.
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BANGKOK Thai authorities announced Friday that avian influenza had spread to poultry in four more provinces, as US researchers made progress in deciphering the genetic code of the virus that killed a woman in northwestern Thailand last week.
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Using computer programs,scientists have suceeded in reconstructing the DNA of a creature that lived at the time of the dinosaurs more than 75 million years ago, a small, furry nocturnal animal that was the common ancestor of all placental mammals
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A University of Connecticut scientist may have discovered a new and efficient way to clone
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Scientists have analyzed the genetic makeup of chickens, and it is providing valuable information about how human genes work. Washington University Genome Sequencing Center led a group of international researchers
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Scientists pinpoint a new gene linked with late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
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Scientists identify a protein that helps detect DNA damage in developing eggs.
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The sensitivity of a homing pigeon&#39;s beak could provide an answer to the complicated story of how it finds its way home. Scientists have shown for the first time that homing
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Experts have deciphered the complete DNA sequence for one of the most infectious bugs known to man.
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Scientists show the genetic codes of individuals can vary hugely - far more than was previously thought.
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IT&#39;S official: Two chickens in Kelantan have been found to have the H5N1 strain of the bird flu bug.