Genome

	The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away
...gy and diseases. Thanks to this technology over ten thousand mouse genes were made inactive, which means that scientists have researched the significance of about a half of all genes in the mammalian genome by "knocking out" certain genes. The gene targeting technology has already produced over 500 mouse models of human disorders, such as cardiovascular, neuro-degenerative diseases, diabetes, cancer and many others. Thu...
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	Scientists Find a Way to Make People Live for Hundreds of Years
... to extend the lifespan of a strain of yeast fungus that can live 10 times longer than normal. Valter Longo, the leading researcher of the study removed two genes RAS2 and SCH9 within the yeast's genome, that is responsible for aging in yeast and cancer in humans and put the baker's yeast on a restricting diet that extended its lifespan enormously. Longo claimed that in spite of the difference between humans and ye...
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	Scientific Breakthrough: Extinct Animal DNA Revived in a Live Animal
...ian and US scientists. Earlier, scientists tried to extract DNA from extinct species, beginning with bacteria to mammoth and Neanderthals, but until now they didn't succeed in studying the role of genome in the development. Powered by www.infoniac.com ...
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