Genetics & Molecular Biology

Biosecurity Seen From The Inside

Scientists have developed a new biosensor that allows them to see, in real time, what happens when a plant’s defenxe system swings into action. When plants come under attack internal alarms signal and their defense mechanisms swing into action. For the fir ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 18 2015 - 9:12am

FMRP: New Genetic Clues Found In Fragile X Syndrome

Scientists have gained new insight into fragile X syndrome, the most common cause of inherited intellectual disability, by studying the case of a person without the disorder, but with two of its classic symptoms. Fragile X syndrome results from an inherit ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 24 2015 - 7:16am

Organic Milk- A Real Difference Or Marketing Hype?

When there is a market, someone will sell to it, even if it does not make much sense. So you can purchase organic pineapples and non-GMO rock salt if it makes you feel better. In Europe, most genetically modified foods, as European politicians define them, ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 21 2015 - 12:26pm

Adult Stem Cells Used To Grow New Hair

Researchers have used human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to generate new hair, the first step toward the development of a cell-based treatment for people with hair loss.  In the United States alone, more than 40 million men and 21 million women a ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2015 - 2:16pm

Juvenile Hormone Antagonists: Natural Plant Compounds Work Against Pests

Scientists may be on the way to genetically modifying plants to naturally protect against pests in new ways. That is good news for people in developing nations and fans of the environment. Older insecticides present environmental and health risks and insec ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2015 - 6:37pm

The Crystal Structure Of Mitochondrial Complex I

Mitochondria produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), commonly called the universal energy currency of the body. The driver for this process is an electrochemical membrane potential, which is created by a series of proton pumps- positive charges and negative ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2015 - 9:00am

'Healthy' Fat Tissue Could Be Key To Reversing Type 2 Diabetes

Preventing inflammation in obese fat tissue may hold the key to preventing or even reversing type 2 diabetes, new research has found. Researchers from Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and the RIKEN Institute, Japan found they could 'r ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2015 - 11:01am

Mitochondrial Disease: 2,500 UK Women Could Be Spared Worrying About Transmitting It

Almost 2,500 women of child-bearing age in the United Kingdom are at risk of transmitting mitochondrial disease to their children, evidence of how many families could potentially be helped by new IVF techniques to it. The paper adds data to emotional debat ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2015 - 12:12am

Who's Going To Win The Super Bowl? Athlete Biological Clocks Might Help Tell Us

The betting line created for this weekend's Super Bowl is done by very smart people. They are not trying to fool anyone, they want the betting to be as even as possible and they make their money on a 'commission'- the vigorish or 'vig&# ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2015 - 2:32pm

Reconciling Two Models Of Cellular Aging: Understanding The Nuclear Landscape

Researchers have mapped the physical structure of the nuclear landscape to better understand changes in genomic interactions occurring in cell senescence and aging. Their findings have allowed them to reconcile the contradictory observations of two current ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 31 2015 - 11:11am