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Evaluating evolutionary rates could shed light into functions of uncharacterized genes
2013-02-08 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Contact: Anita Srikameswaran SrikamAV@upmc.edu 412-578-9193 University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences PITTSBURGH, Feb. 8, 2013 - Genes that have roles in the same biological pathways change their rate of evolution in parallel, a finding that could be used to discover their functions, said a researcher at the Univ…
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How can evolutionary biology explain why we get cancer?
2013-01-22 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Contact: Ben Norman sciencenewsroom@wiley.com 44-012-437-70375 Wiley Over 500 billion cells in our bodies will be replaced daily, yet natural selection has enabled us to develop defenses against the cellular mutations which could cause cancer. It is this relationship between evolution and the body's fight against cance…
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