Genetics & Molecular Biology

Archea Domain: New Producer Of Vitamin B12 Discovered

Vitamin B12 is an essential molecule required by most life on this planet but it is only produced by a relatively small group of microorganisms due to its large size and complexity. For us, vitamin B12 plays a key role in maintaining the brain and nervous ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2014 - 4:30pm

Pseudouridine: RNA Modifications In Some Unexpected Places

That DNA makes RNA which makes protein is a simplified explanation molecular biologists use to explain for how genetic information is deciphered and translated in living organisms. The process is more complicated than the schema first articulated nearly 6 ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2014 - 7:00am

Creating 480 Varieties Of Wheat Is Deserving Of The World Food Prize

There is never enough of this golden beauty. Credit: bradhigham, CC BY By Angela White, University of Sheffield ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 17 2014 - 1:30pm

Iberian Pig Genome Unchanged For The Last 500 Years

Humans may think we are eating paleo- like ancient ancestors- or organic- like before the advent of modern fertilizers and pesticides in the early 1800s- but nothing could be further from the truth. The microbiome of today shares little in common with peo ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2014 - 11:30am

Researchers Discover How Circular RNA Is Created

Circular RNA were discovered a few years ago, but their role in our bodies is poorly understood.  Our genetic information is stored in DNA, tiny strands of nucleic acid that contain instructions for the functioning of our bodies. To express this genetic da ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2014 - 6:30am

The Role Of Mitochondria In Neurodegenerative Diseases

A longstanding question in science has the role of mitochondria in debilitating and fatal motor neuron diseases. Mitochondria are organelles – compartments contained inside cells – that serve several functions, including making ATP, a nucleotide that cell ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2014 - 11:34am

Eat More Meat, Get Lower Blood Pressure?

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Article - Inside Science - Sep 22 2014 - 7:30am

How Gene Expression Affects The Facial Kind

A person's face is the first thing that others see, and much remains unknown about how it forms — or malforms — during early development. Recently, Chong Pyo Choe, a senior postdoctoral fellow working in the lab of USC stem cell researcher Gage Crump ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2014 - 10:19am

Sleep Hormone In Humans Makes Plankton Jet Lagged Too

Melatonin, a hormone that governs sleep and jet lag in humans, may also drive the mass migration of plankton in the ocean, according to a report by scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg.  Melatonin, is essential to m ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2014 - 2:00pm

Epigenetics Of Being Without Electricity For A Few Days

Epigenetics has been used and abused in many ways- can it tell researchers that an expectant mother had no electricity for a few days? In January of 1998, what came to be called the North American Ice Storm of 1998 occurred. It knocked out power for days ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2014 - 9:40am