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	<title>New Genetic Discovery May Help Prevent Multiple Sclerosis</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description> New Genetic Discovery May Help Prevent Multiple Sclerosis Multiple sclerosis is a complex and progressive inflammatory disease of the central nervous system typically diagnosed in young adulthood. Th...</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[ New Genetic Discovery May Help Prevent Multiple Sclerosis Multiple sclerosis is a complex and progressive inflammatory disease of the central nervous system typically diagnosed in young adulthood. The disease is known to have genetic and environmental links.Cases of MS actually increase the further north populations are located.This lead to Vitamin D being investigated as a Key risk factor for developing MS. Scientists have now identified a rare genetic mutation in 3000 adults with MS and their Parents.A rare copy of the gene CYP27B1 was found in 35 of the affected adults all of whom had inherited it from a parent, this variant this variant was found to be independently associated with an inherited form of vitamin D deficiency.Scientists say that this research strengthens the importance of vitamin D deficiency in MS which may lead to large-scale trials of vitamin D supplementation as a strategy to help prevent MS in the more northern countries such as Scotland who currently have the highest incidences of this disease]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>70% Food Production increase possible through GM maze</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description> 70% Food Production increase possible through GM maze With maze being the most important crop in Kenya, a student at Kenyatta University; Rasha Adam has engaged in research into helping this crop gro...</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 70% Food Production increase possible through GM maze With maze being the most important crop in Kenya, a student at Kenyatta University; Rasha Adam has engaged in research into helping this crop grow during drought seasons.she is working to produce seeds named PNOV-ASARAnxzm35. Plants with this specific gene have actually proven to show more resistance to lack of water and are capable of returning to fully healthy plants after completely drying up, the plant can wither but remain alive for up to 72 hours. Then after a water source is introduced within these 72 hours the plant will spring back to life.At the first ASARECA (Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa) General Assembly last week, Adam stated “I will carry out field experiments back home in Sudan and train more scientists. The gene will be free for all farmers in the ASARECA region,” Adam has also helped develop nine gene lines, which have been engineered with drought resistant genes which once successfully inserted into the maze seeds will make it capable of withstanding drought and increase its production in the region by up to 70 percent.Scientists at ASARECA say Once these crops are introduced to local farmers it will increase security, reduce hunger and promote economic development.]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>DNA Testing Helps Catch Dear Poachers.</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:54:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description> Britain’s poaching is on the rise, With the current economic downturn in Britain poaching is on the rise, Especially so in Cumbria who according to the National Wildlife Crime Unit have taken the poa...</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[ Britain’s poaching is on the rise, With the current economic downturn in Britain poaching is on the rise, Especially so in Cumbria who according to the National Wildlife Crime Unit have taken the poaching hotspot title from Scotland.Wildlife crime officer John Baldwin Stated "Evidence does show that compared to the same period last year, poaching from August to date has increased,” he also said "Poaching figures do increase in the run up to Christmas and it could be to do with costs. On the black market poachers may be looking at a pound in cash for a pound in weight, meaning that from just one carcass they could make £200-300." As research into DNA testing advances the techniques for tests such as Paternity and Relationship testing are being altered and enhanced to help prevent crime.The new strategy for finding these poachers Involves taking DNA samples from the Deer carcasses left on the side of the road with the aim of finding DNA left by the poachers as they drag the deer from the fields to their vehicles Baldwin said "The new technique is something we would consider on a case by case basis. We haven't sent off any DNA samples yet but potentially it could be quite an effective tool in the future."]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>DNA helps police discover criminals eye colour</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description> DNA helps police discover criminals eye colour. DNA has helped police in many ways over the past few decades but latest breakthrough research has revealed new ways to help find criminals IrisPlex is ...</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[ DNA helps police discover criminals eye colour. DNA has helped police in many ways over the past few decades but latest breakthrough research has revealed new ways to help find criminals IrisPlex is the name of this new technology It was created by a team of Dutch scientists to help police solve crimes, as a lot of DNA evidence helps find criminals its not unheard of for the police DNA database to not have a valid match for the DNA sample provided.IrisPlex works by looking for single-letter differences in the genetic code from the DNA found at crime scenes these differences are called single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNP's for short. These SNP's are largely linked to eye colour in the suspect.With 94% accuracy this test is highly accurate however as of yet it is not accurate enough to secure a court conviction. The test gives one of three answers, Blue eye colour, Brown eye colour and Undefined eye colour such as green or gray as they are intermediate colours.This research gives scientists a basis to start developing other technologies that can help police work by defining criminals externally visible characteristics. In the near future we could be seeing DNA used to find exact matches to these characteristics and help the police by giving them an exact description of suspects at a crime scene.]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Video Games, the future of medical research.</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description> Video Games, the future of medical research. Many parents advise their children to spend less time playing video games and more time doing  Something productive, Well now after many years of developm...</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[ Video Games, the future of medical research. Many parents advise their children to spend less time playing video games and more time doing  Something productive, Well now after many years of development universities have created video  games that aid scientific efforts towards solving many debilitating and life threatening  diseases. After spending some time "aiding science" Two of these games have stood out.Firstly is a game called 'Phylo' developed at the McGill School of Computer Science in  Montreal. This game is an online based game playable from your web browser. After much analysis  the experts' computer spits out thousands of missed or incorrect alignment sequences, these  sequences are transformed into a game.  Strands of DNA are represented as brightly coloured  blocks, Mutations are depicted as red lines that limit the player to move the brightly coloured blocks in a straight line. The aim of the game is to get the best possible score per level,  this score translates into the best alignment possible for the given sequence.Within a year of its release Phylo has had over 17,000 users registered and has provided  350,000 solutions to alignment sequence problems and has also provided insights into 521  disease-related genes. One of the games two designers Jerome Waldispuhl stated "Computers are best at handling large amounts of messy data, but where we require high  accuracy, we need a human, In this case, the genomes we're analyzing have already been pre- aligned by computers, but there are parts of it that are misaligned. Our goal is to identify  these parts and transform the task of aligning them into a puzzle people will want to sort  out."Secondly is a slightly older yet more sophisticated game 'Foldit' developed in 2008 by the  University of Washington. This game has produced equal success by helping scientists solve the  protein structure of an AIDS-related Enzyme in a few short weeks even though this specific  problem has had scientists at a blank for over a decade.Firas Khatib the creator of the game foldit stated "The ingenuity of game players is a formidable force that, if properly directed, can be used to solve a wide range of scientific problems."Therefore eventually the phrase "Stop playing video games and do something productive" will become obsolete as video games develop into powerful research tools for the greater good.]]></content:encoded>
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