December 11: The
protein-protein interaction between mutated
Ras and
Raf has been shown to prevent a cell from turning one switch off, leading to the uncontrolled cell growth of
cancer.
(PhysOrg)
December 11: Researchers found that computer programs commonly used to scan
DNA missed 29 to 61 percent of regulatory DNA.
(ScienceDaily)
November 5:
Google announces a
software alliance with the goal to create a standardized and
open platform for
mobile phones. In contrast to earlier speculations, it does not announce a Google branded device (
gPhone).
(BBCNews)
July 6: An article in Science reports the recovery of
DNA in
ice samples extracted from southern
Greenland. The age of these fragments is estimated between 400 and 800 thousand years.
(BBCNews)
June 27: At a news conference in
Cairo,
Egyptologists claim to have identified the 3,000-year-old
mummy of pharaoh/queen
Hatshepsut,
ancient Egypt's most powerful female ruler. The
DNA identification of the queen (whose mummy was originally discovered, but not identified, by
Howard Carter in 1903) is being billed as the biggest
archaeological find in Egypt since the 1922 discovery of
Tutankhamun's tomb. Some archaeologists, however, express strong scepticism about the possibility of using DNA technology to identify the queen.
(BBC News)
May 23: A study on the development of land-adapted
limbs in prehistoric
fish is published in Nature. From analysis of the
fossil remains of Tiktaalik roseae's
fins the authors conclude that gradual changes can explain the evolution in its structure.
(BBCNews)
May 22: Members of
NASA's
Spirit rover team announce the discovery of a patch of soil on
Mars that consists of about 90 percent
silica. This is seen as strong evidence for liquid
water in the area of
Gusev crater at some earlier time.
(Reuters)
May 3: Using precise measurements of
planetMercury's
rotation, scientists discover a significant "wobble", that most likely is caused by the
core of the planet being
liquid.
(Reuters)
February 2: An
IPCC meeting at
Paris,
France, ends with a report that finds a probability of 90 % or higher that
human actions are creating a warming trend in the world's climate, causing
global warming.
(Reuters)
January 22: Scottish scientists have genetically engineered hens that produce useful drugs in their eggs. Furthermore, the hens are capable of passing on this trait to their offspring.
(Science News Online)
January 18: An analysis of a
rocket launch at January 11, 2007 concludes that
China tested the military use of its payload by destroying an orbiting
satellite. If correct, this would be the first publicly known test of that technology in at least 20 years.
(BBCNews)(Reuters)