Cancer Research

SUN Gene Controls Fruit Shape- Crop Scientists

Crop scientists have cloned a gene that controls the shape of tomatoes, a discovery that could help unravel the mystery behind the huge morphological differences among edible fruits and vegetables, as well as provide new insight into mechanisms of plant de ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2008 - 10:38am

Stegography, Systems Biology And Computer Networks Find Common Mathematical Ground

Stegography is an ancient technique of hiding data within data. Unlike encryption, it isn't obviously encrypted. Today it is used to take advantage of unused bits of data in images or audio/video files to transmit secrets. The basic concept of underst ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2008 - 12:48pm

Safer Smoking: RNA Interference Knocks Out Tobacco Carcinogen

Scientists from North Carolina State University conducted larger-scale field trials and have shown that silencing a demethylase gene in burley tobacco plants significantly reduces harmful carcinogens in cured tobacco leaves. The finding could lead to tobac ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2008 - 10:25am

Drug Trial Child Safety Shock- Just 2 Percent Had Independent Monitoring

Only two per cent of paediatric drug trials reported that they had established independent safety monitoring committees that can help lead to the early detection of adverse drug reactions, according to a major review in the April issue of Acta Paediatrica. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2008 - 11:10am

Botox Is The New Prius, Except Of Medicine

Twice in two days Botulinum toxin (Botox) has graced our front page, and it's not just because it makes Joan Rivers look like The Joker. Yesterday we reported that Botox has helped infants with CHARGE Syndrome and today we discovered an article in Med ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 19 2008 - 12:47pm

Subterfuge, Counter-surveillance And Assassination: It's Cervical Cancer, Not Politics

When viruses enter cells they manufacture proteins to assist in growth and replication but the body’s immune system recognizes and attacks these non-native proteins. Human Papillomavirus (HPV)(1), which causes several types of cancer but is particularly as ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2008 - 10:44am

Figuring Out The Role Of Human-Specific Genes

There are around 23,000 genes found in human DNA but perhaps 50 to 100 that have no counterparts in other species. Including the primate family known as hominoids increases that to several hundred unique genes. If the genome is like an automobile, human-on ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 22 2008 - 10:05am

'Genetic Patch' Corrects Mutation In Embryos

In research that could lead to the prevention of up to one-fifth of birth defects in humans caused by genetic mutations, early stage fish embryos injected with a 'genetic patch' were able to develop normally. Erik C. Madsen, Ph.D. student in the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2008 - 1:16am

Tiniest Rotary Motor Is Actually A Biological Engine Measured In Molecules

In the near future a bio-sensing nano-device developed by Arizona State University researcher Wayne Frasch could eliminate long lines at airport security checkpoints and revolutionize health screenings for diseases like anthrax, cancer and antibiotic resis ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2008 - 12:11am

Free Radicals And Aging Discovery- This Aquatic Animal Is Resistant To Radiation

Roughly a half-millimeter in size and commonly observed under microscopes in high-school biology classes, bdelloid rotifers are highly unusual in several regards: They appear to be exclusively asexual, have relatively few transposable genes, and can surviv ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2008 - 10:22am