Genetics & Molecular Biology

Epigenetics Study- Effects Of Poor Eating Habits Stick Around, Even With A Better Diet

Improve your eating habits and will improve your health, common medical wisdom goes. A new article in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology finds that we might as well keep eating poorly. They contend that the effects of poor eating habits persist after dietar ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2014 - 10:13am

Nature Loves Genetic Modification

There is concern about pollution, overfishing and even climate change when it comes to reduced wild fish populations. Farmed fish is the obvious solution but critics have a response for that also- they contend that hatchery-raised fish won't be as wel ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2014 - 10:55am

Oops, Just Lab Contamination: GMO Genes Do Not Pass From Food Into Blood

In 2013, when PLoS One published a research paper, Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood, anti-GMO activists claimed they had proof that GMOs can “transfer” into our bodies, and threaten human health. Now it turns out the hysteria they tried to ...

Article - Jon Entine - Nov 4 2014 - 12:06pm

The Identity Of Jack The Ripper Remains A Mystery

Dalibor Levíček, CC BY-NC-SA By Mick Reed, University of New England The Jack the Ripper murders are the most potent cold case ever. More than a century on from the first killing in 1888 they are still attracting global attention. ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 5 2014 - 3:28pm

Genetic Markers For Alcoholism Recovery

A team of scholars say genetic markers that may help in identifying individuals who could benefit from the alcoholism treatment drug acamprosate- patients carrying these genetic variants have longer periods of abstinence during the first three months of ac ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2014 - 12:51am

IPS Cells And Banned SCNT-Derived Stem Cells Are Similar

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)-derived cells are world's apart. iPSCs became a major research force because they are adult stem cells and lack the controversy of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) whil ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2014 - 5:07pm

Chromatin Discovery In Maize Could Bring New Era Of Genetic Optimization

A new biology paper sheds light on how chromatin (the complex of DNA and proteins) is organized in a cell and how plants regulate genetic material, so that some genes are turned on and others are turned off- and it could make it possible for a new generat ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2014 - 6:30pm

Calmodulin And Getting To The Heart Of The Heart

Heart attacks are often caused by conditions that affect electrical signaling in the heart. Genetic studies have linked two of these conditions, long QT syndrome and Brugada syndrome, to mutations in the sodium channels that let sodium ions into cells in ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2014 - 9:31am

Blocking Some Mitochondrial Fission May Reverse Parkinson's Disease

A new study finds that the inhibition of a particular mitochondrial fission protein, GTPase dynamin-related protein-1 – Drp1, could hold the key to treating Parkinson's Disease. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2014 - 9:56pm

How To Make A Baby...a Question Of Gastrulation

Let’s talk about gastrulation. For those unfamiliar with the term, it’s not as disgusting as it sounds. Gastrulation is a process in early embryonic development which leads to the generation of the three germ-layer tissues- ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoder ...

Article - Sarah Harrison - Nov 9 2014 - 12:26pm