That gave Roth confidence that it might be possible to induce hibernation in mammals.
One strain was a type that, in any circumstances, only breeds in mammals, not insects.
In mammals, the brain stem is specialised for keeping the heart and lungs working.
The barrier to parthenogenesis in mammals, it seems, is something known as genetic imprinting.
According to Queen's University the findings from both studies are consistent with observations of pain in mammals.
Paramutation has been seen mostly in plants, but something similar has been suspected in mammals, including humans.
These environments would have been rich in mammals that could have been hunted or scavenged by early humans.
In mammals, the structure of many of these decomposition products - with evocative names such as cadaverine - is known.
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The brains of reptiles correspond more or less to the structures known in mammals as the brain stem and the cerebellum.
"For the first time it is abundantly clear that aging in mammals can be slowed down, " says University of Michigan gerontologist Richard Miller.
The scientists suspect that this process may happen in mammals too.
This suggests than it may have something to do with the fact that the sex-determining chromosome is carried by males in mammals and females in birds.
In mammals, the most important may be the Sonic hedgehog gene, named after the Sega videogame character by scientists in the Harvard laboratory of Clifford Tabin in 1993.
Phylogenetic analyses show that these proteins belong to different keratin lineages that originated in an early tetrapod ancestor and in mammals evolved to become the major keratin types of hair.
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It turns out that one of the most important aspects of mate choice in mammals, humans included, is to make sure that your mate's MHC is different from your own.
Although there is, as yet, no published evidence that sirtuins extend life in mammals, or that resveratrol activates sirtuins in human cells, some of these molecules are already in clinical trials for safety.
In mammals, this kind of epigenetic modification has been assumed to last only during the life span of a particular animal, because such changes are usually erased in the sperm and egg cells.
Now, the study in Nature by Pere Puigserver , a biochemist at Johns Hopkins University, has not only made that connection, but helped explain exactly what role the gene plays in mammals and possibly people.
Prof Barnosky and colleagues compared the rates of known species extinctions in mammals, birds and amphibians during the last five centuries with those estimated from the fossil record during the previous Big Five die-outs of the geological past.
One result of the study is to show that, even before the genetic engineers have got to work, around half of a fly's proteins are similar to those in mammals (for C. elegans the figure is a third).
Researchers have uncovered some evidence that certain foods stimulate more dopamine release in mammals than others--critical to the legal argument that those foods are unreasonably addictive and dangerous--but their findings are tentative or difficult to replicate in humans.
Relatively little data existed on health problems in marine mammals in the 1960s, and Dr. Kenney pioneered basic health care for many of the animals he treated.
The researchers also found that long non-coding segments that are not conserved in other mammals are in fact highly constrained in humans, suggesting they have human-specific functions.
Dr Fumito Ichinose, assistant professor of anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School said that if the effects of hydrogen sulphide was confirmed in larger mammals it could be useful in helping to sustain the functionality of organs in patients undergoing cardiac surgery or in patients with severe trauma.
Dr Ward and Dr Kellis found that, in addition to the 5% of human DNA that is conserved between mammals, an additional 4% of human DNA appears to be uniquely human in the sense that it is prone to purifying selection in humans but not in other mammals.
Because it develops only in cells that are maturing, it can be grown only in living mammals.
They remain similar in different mammals, but the human brain is crammed with more of them.
Although the technique will probably work in other mammals, it is a difficult procedure.
Such skin absorption occurs in other mammals, and the leathery look of elephant skin is deceptive it actually has a rich blood supply.
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