DNA Map to Help Combat Ivory Poaching
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The latest weapon to protect dwindling elephant populations from poachers is a genetic map which can trace the origins of ivory, it emerged today.
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The key genes which lead the body's fight against HIV infection have been pinpointed by scientists.
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Scientists identify a protein that helps detect DNA damage in developing eggs.
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To determine the origin of elephant ivory tusks, a team of researchers led by Samuel Wasser of the University of Washington in Seattle collected samples in the most important areas inhabited by African elephant herds.
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A project is announced to obtain the genetic "barcodes" of all animals and plants on the planet.
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Studying the zebra fish spinal cord, grooming habits of the Barbary macaque and the regional impact of dams.
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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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The Republic of Congo will set aside up to 3,800 square miles (1 million hectares) of land to help preserve elephants, chimpanzees, hippos, crocodiles, and gorillas.
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Scientists have mapped the genome of a worm that causes elephantiasis in what they called on Thursday an important step toward developing new drugs or vaccines to fight the mosquito-borne disfiguring disease.
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The African elephant got a new line of defense against poachers Monday after a global wildlife conference approved measures aimed at wiping out the continent&#39;s illegal ivory trade.
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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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Scientists have used computer analysis to read evolution backward and reconstruct a large part of the genome of an 80-million-year-old mammal.
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Science & environment: The mysterious case of St Kilda's vanishing black sheep has been solved by geneticists
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Coming soon to a jungle near you --  mosquitoes genetically engineered so they cannot give people  malaria. But this time scientists want to do it right.
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A team of international scientists launched an ambitious project on Thursday to genetically identify, or provide a barcode for, every plant and animal species on the planet.
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Ancient bison DNA may help explain a longstanding mystery of North American wildlife: why mammoths, North American lions, short-faced bears and many other large mammals disappeared about 10,000 years ago.
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To help shoppers avoid mislabeled toxic pufferfish, and pilots steer clear of birds, federal agencies are starting to tap into an ambitious project that is gathering DNA "barcodes" for the Earth's 1.8 million known species.