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		<title>Proof Linking Humans And Monkeys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists find the skull of a 29 million-year-old primate, shedding light on when our evolutionary line diverged from monkeys. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science+environment-10633640</link>
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		<title>Gene therapy breakthrough heralds treatment for beta-thalassemia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Wiley-Blackwell) Italian scientists pioneering a new gene transfer treatment for the blood disorder beta-thalassemia have successfully completed preclinical trials, claiming they can correct the lack of beta-globin in patients' blood cells which cause...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-07/w-gtb071210.php</link>
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		<title>Divide and conquer: Genes decide who wins in the body&#8217;s battle against cancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Public Library of Science) Researchers funded by the Medical Research Council have discovered for the first time that two proteins called Mahjong and Lgl could be star players in helping to identify how the body's own cells fight back against cancer c...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-07/plos-dac071310.php</link>
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		<title>Smoking influences gene function, scientists say</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research) In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research have found that exposure to cigarette smoke can alter gene expression -- the process by which a gene's info...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-07/sffb-sig071310.php</link>
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		<title>Longevity Gene May Boost Memory, Too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The gene could one day be used to turbocharge memory and brain function.]]></description>
		<link>http://news.discovery.com/human/longevity-gene-memory.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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		<title>Chilled genes are hot hope for new vaccines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Genes "borrowed" from Arctic bacteria that cannot survive at body temperature successfully protect against disease before safely dying off]]></description>
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		<title>Double-teaming a whole-genome hunt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) By inspecting the sequence of all 3 billion "letters" that make up the genome of a single person affected with a rare, inherited disorder, a Johns Hopkins and Duke University team ferreted out the single genetic mut...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-07/jhmi-daw071210.php</link>
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		<title>Earliest evidence of pet tortoise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The earliest archaeological evidence of a tortoise kept as a family pet in Britain is unearthed by researchers. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10574385</link>
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		<title>Pyramid Construction Supervisor&#8217;s Tomb Found</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Egyptian archaeologists unveiled on Thursday two rock-hewn painted tombs belonging to a man who had a supervising role in the construction of pyramids -- and his son. It's considered among the most distinguished Old Kingdom tombs. Dating from around 4,...]]></description>
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		<title>Mount Sinai researchers discover new way diseases develop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified a previously unknown mechanism by which cells direct gene expression, the process by which information from a gene is used to di...]]></description>
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