A Brief Overview
Though surprising to many, the Human Genome Project (HGP) traces its roots to an initiative in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Since 1947, DOE and its predecessor agencies have been charged by Congress with developing new energy resources and technologies and pursuing a deeper understanding of potential health and environmental risks posed [...]

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Cells are the fundamental working units of every living system. All the instructions needed to direct their activities are contained within the chemical DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
DNA from all organisms is made up of the same chemical and physical components. The DNA sequence is the particular side-by-side arrangement of bases along the [...]

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Not long from now, doctors may be able to predict with pinpoint accuracy what risk you’re at for disease, repair most of the disease’s damage at the molecular level and treat the rest of the damage with side-effect-free drugs designed just for your body. A few years ago, scientists would have [...]

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It is evident that, a physiological mechanism allows the targeting and elimination of a sub-population of abnormal sperm- among mice, during fertilization.This mechanism, established by the sperm themselves, increases the chances of fertilization and reduces the risk of fertilization with a sperm defect. These results were published April 26, 2010 in the Journal of Clinical [...]

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Federal Minister for the Environment, Norbert Rottgen, and the Director General of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Achim Steiner, celebrated January 11, 2010 at the Museum of Natural History Berlin opening of the International Year of Biodiversity.

Each day, about 150 species of 15 million estimated by researchers disappear. 16,000 are [...]

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Agency resources for German Research (DFG) has published a new booklet on green biotechnology. Plant genetics is indeed a major research area in biotechnology, it is also a source of great controversy among the public and politicians because this technique is no longer employed at the stage of basic research, but was gradually extended to [...]

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According to a study published in the PNAS (Ed.: Publications of the Academy of Sciences) last January 10 and funded by the National Science Foundation, climate change and habitat loss would cause a decrease the number of butterflies in California. Based on field data collected over the past 35 years, this comprehensive study draws attention [...]

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A team of researchers from the Institute of Oceanic Research of the University of Tokyo offers an explanation for being done by the great migrations of freshwater eels at the time of replication. It would be a behavior inherited from an ancestor who lived in the marine environment.
The name “eel” in French refers to several [...]

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In a study in mice to better understand the biological basis of drug addiction, scientists show how cocaine acts on a mechanism for the expression of genes in the nucleus accumbens, a key region of the reward circuit in the brain. The cocaine is known to induce lasting changes in this structure, both genetically and [...]

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In 2002, the Earth Summit in Johannesburg,
governments committed themselves to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2010. This
mission seems far from the account … It is time to act drastically.

Large missions, including the CNRS is the instigator or partner, are being
launched across the globe, including locations of “hot spots” in the Amazon,
Africa, Madagascar, in the [...]

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