Modelling fails to stall key fisheries collapse.
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Animals↗
Biomedical subjects
Nigel Williams
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Funding follows public prejudice.
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Humans↗
Push and pull in Europe.
Expansion of the EU now looks set to take place but the major efforts to develop common policies continue to be stymied by national differences, no more so than in on the issue of genetically modified (GM) crops, as Nigel Williams reports. But other moves are aiming to draw together Europeans in an effort to exploit closer collaboration as Michael Gross reports below.
Biotechnology↗
Genes in behaviour scrutiny.
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Genetics, Behavioral↗
New champion for basic research.
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Germany↗
Back to the public over the GM crop battle.
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Biotechnology↗
The gene for juvenile hyaline fibromatosis maps to chromosome 4q21.
Juvenile hyaline fibromatosis (JHF) is an autosomal recessive condition characterized by multiple subcutaneous nodular tumors, gingival fibromatosis, flexion contractures of the joints, and an accumulation of hyaline in the dermis. We performed a genomewide linkage search in two families with JHF from the same region of the Indian state of Gujarat and identified a region of homozygosity on chromosome 4q21. Dense microsatellite analyses within this interval in five families with JHF who were from diverse origins demonstrate that all are compatible with linkage to chromosome 4q21 (multipoint LOD score 5.5). Meiotic recombinants place the gene for JHF within a 7-cM interval bounded by D4S2393 and D4S395.
Child↗
New thinking on gene patents.
With the number of patent claims including DNA sequence booming, is there a way forward to help resolve disagreements over the many issues involved? One ethical body believes that there is and has produced a new study.
DNA↗
Welsh I am.
With developments in genetics, researchers are increasingly able to address historical issues surrounding human migration and provenance by studying present populations. Nigel Williams reports on one of the latest studies looking at a crucial period of British history.
Chromosomes, Human, Y↗
Sun clocks in as migration key.
The mechanisms by which some animals are able to achieve astonishing feats of migration have often eluded researchers because of the difficulty of designing suitable experiments. Two Canadian researchers believe they now have a set-up to throw light on the flight of the monarch butterfly. Nigel Williams reports.
Animals↗
Biodiversity challenge to funding priorities.
Ten years after the key Earth Summit in Rio, a key group of influential politicians in Britain are flagging up the need to support research into taxonomy as a basis for biodiversity studies ahead of this summer's meeting in South Africa. Nigel Williams reports.
Animals↗
Testing notions of global ecology.
It's clear that one thing that would boost scientific input to the issue of biodiversity would be evidence that researchers can model effectively the large-scale behaviour of ecosystems. A new issue of a prestigious journal aims to explore just that. Nigel Williams reports.
Ecology↗