Scientists Crack Chicken&#39;s Genetic Code
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Scientists have cracked the genetic code of the chicken, showing it shares about 60 percent of its genes with humans and has a common ancestor that lived about 310 million years ago.
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French biotech sleuths believe they have identified a gene that helps determine whether your steak will be tough or tender.
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An international scientific consortium decodes the chicken genome.
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THE enduring mystery of why the chicken really did cross the road has come a step closer to being solved definitively, following a detailed analysis of the birdâs genetic blueprint.
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Unleashing a new kind of DNA analyzer on a 38,000-year-old fragment of fossilized Neanderthal bone, scientists have reconstructed a portion of that creature's genetic code -- a technological tour de force that has researchers convinced they will soon know the entire DNA sequence of the closest...
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Now that the DNA that makes a chicken a chicken had been sequenced, I'm hoping we'll learn why chickens can't sing.
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Scientists publish a detailed analysis of the chicken genome, the animal's biochemical "code".
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Science & environment: Nearly 3 billion pairs of letters that spell out Craig Venter's genetic code are mapped for research paper.
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Scientists have for the first time determined the order of virtually every letter of DNA code in an individual, offering an unprecedented readout of the separate genetic contributions made by that person's mother and father.
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Scientists have found a key gene which appears to increase the risk of developing osteoarthritis.
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Hong Kong scientists have been researching a vaccine for the avian flu epidemic, commonly known as bird flu. Doctor John Nichols, a pathologist at Hong Kong University, says
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Scientists in Maryland today said they had built from scratch an entire microbial chromosome, a loop of synthetic DNA carrying all the instructions that a simple cell needs to live and reproduce.
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Forget genetic engineering. The new idea is synthetic biology, an effort to rewire the genetic circuitry of living organisms.
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A close-up view of the human genome reveals its innermost workings to be far more complex than first thought.
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Scientists have pinpointed mutations in an ancient protein that transformed its shape and function more than 400 million years ago.
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Scientists have discovered a new  cancer-causing gene that they believe could be a molecular  master switch for the disease.
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&quot;The chicken genome fills a crucial gap in our scientific knowledge,&quot; says Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute.