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HealthDay - TUESDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Exercise can reduce a
person's genetic predisposition to obesity by 40 percent, finds a new
English study.
Vote : 15 + vote Category : Biotechnology

A Dow Chemical Company plant in California. A Chinese researcher has been arrested and charged with stealing trade secrets about insecticides from US biotech company Dow and passing them on to China, court documents showed Tuesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David McNew)AFP - A Chinese researcher has been arrested and charged with stealing trade secrets about insecticides from US biotech company Dow and passing them on to China, court documents showed Tuesday.


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Time.com - A new study finds people who are genetically predisposed to obesity may benefit most from physical activity
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Reuters - Cell therapy companies in China and Germany who were criticized by British experts warning of the dangers of "stem cell tourism" defended themselves on Wednesday, saying their safety records were good.
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Time.com - Yes, high-tech aquaculture like genetically modified salmon sounds spooky, but it might just save the world
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Reuters - Thousands of people are putting their health and life savings at risk to travel to private clinics around the world for unproven and potentially dangerous stem cell treatments, British experts said on Tuesday.
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AP - A Japanese researcher who found a way to give adults cells certain characteristics of embryonic stem cells, a process scientists say could eventually lead to cures for spinal cord injuries and other ailments, has been awarded the Balzan Prize for biology.
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Reuters - French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis would be prepared to moderately raise its $69 per share offer for Genzyme if the U.S. biotech agreed to negotiate, Dow Jones reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.
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Reuters - A biotechnology company's genetically engineered salmon are as safe to eat as other Atlantic salmon, U.S. regulators said as they weighed approval of the first DNA-altered animal for Americans' dinner plates.
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A vendor picks up corn at his stall in a market in 2009. Over 70 environmental NGOs including the WWF called Monday for the sacking of Romania's new agriculture minister for his links to the genetically modified crop industry.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Over 70 environmental NGOs including the WWF called Monday for the sacking of Romania's new agriculture minister for his links to the genetically modified crop industry.


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LiveScience.com - Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically
changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according
to a comprehensive study of fossil records. The findings suggest humans will
live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because
the loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems.
Vote : 7 + vote Category : Dinosaurs and Fossils

This image, obtained from the National Science Foundation (NSF), shows the fossilized hindlimb of a Balaur bondoc showing the double sickle claws of the foot, found on a Late Cretaceous island in what is now Europe.(AFP/NSF/Mick Ellison)AFP - The fossil of a stocky new dinosaur with two sets of claws on its feet unearthed in Romania has given researchers a window into what European predators looked like in the final years of the Age of Dinosaurs.


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SPACE.com - A Chinese satellite may have intentionally nudged another spacecraft
during secretive space maneuvers in near-Earth orbit, according to analysts.
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SPACE.com - Ancient galaxies
may be cosmic senior citizens today, but some have a wild streak in their past,
one packed with frenetic star birth, astronomers say.
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SPACE.com - Astronauts
aboard the International Space Station won't be throwing any burgers
on the grill this Labor Day weekend, but at least they'll get the
U.S. holiday off — after they clean the space toilet.
Vote : 6 + vote Category : Space and Astronomy
SPACE.com - NASA is
developing an ambitious new mission to plunge a car-sized probe directly into
the sun's atmosphere, boldly going where no spacecraft has gone before.
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SPACE.com - A new survey of asteroids near Earth by a NASA space
telescope has found a much wider variety of the space rocks than previously
thought, with some shiny and bright while others are dark and dull.
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NASA said it is developing a car-sized satellite that by AFP - NASA said it is developing a car-sized satellite that by "no later than 2018" will plunge into the sun's outer atmosphere for an up-close study of its super-hot corona, solar wind and lethal radiation.


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SPACE.com - Satellites
are helping aid workers plan relief for flood-ravaged Pakistan by
providing high-resolution maps of the destruction so rescue crews can
reach the homeless, displaced and sick.
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SPACE.com - Angelo
Sosa's short ribs are destined for the International Space Station.
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