Genetics & Molecular Biology

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENT OF NEEM

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENT OF NEEM Priyanka Srivastavaa, Mithilesh Singha and Rakhi Chaturvedi*a *aDepartment of Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology- Guwahati Guwahati- 781039, Assam, India *Corresponding Author *Department of Biotechnology Indi ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 23 2011 - 3:03pm

Regenerative Medicine- Scientist Converts Human Skin Cells Into Functional Brain Cells

Sheng Ding, PhD, has shown a new method for transforming adult skin cells into neurons that are capable of transmitting brain signals- one of the first documented experiments for transforming an adult human's skin cells into functioning brain cells. D ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2011 - 2:50pm

Teenage Mutant Ninja Fruit Flies

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Article - Sean Gibbons - Jul 29 2011 - 9:12am

Mutation Erases Fingerprints

Imagine going through customs with everything in order. Passport’s okay, and all seems fine. But when your fingerprints are scanned, the customs agents are looking surprised. Apparently, you have no fingerprints. Sounds weird, right? And yet, it is exactl ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Aug 5 2011 - 10:19am

15 Years Of FDA Stalling? Anti-Science Beliefs About Genetically Engineered Salmon

Sometimes the precautionary principle can run amok.   Anti-science people who don't accept climate science use it to prevent meaningful policy actions related to the environment while anti-science people who don't accept biology block efforts to ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 24 2012 - 12:11am

Xenokeime aus Deutschland!

GM bacteria from Germany?  Don’t panic, Captain Mainwaring, we’ve got it all under control! Yes, there is indeed a lot of worry in the air, about the potential for escape of Genetically Modified organisms into the environment.  Generally, this involves cro ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Aug 8 2011 - 1:56am

Ghost In The Machine?

Ren é Descartes’s theory of mind-body dualism suggests the existence of a material body and an immaterial mind- parallel to one another, but capable of communication via a metaphysical LAN line.  Descartes envisioned our bodies as biological locomotives, ...

Article - Sean Gibbons - Aug 7 2011 - 2:19pm

DNA, Made In Space?

Components of DNA have been found in several meteorites ever since the 1960’s, but the question that continually lingered was whether these components were actually made in space, or rather the result of terrestrial contamination. Now, NASA-funded researc ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Aug 11 2011 - 3:27am

Supergenes And Butterfly Mimicry

Mimicry can often be observed in nature, and several types can be discerned. One of these types is known as Müllerian mimicry (named after the German zoologist Johann Friedrich Theodor Müller), or when two or more harmful species copy each other’s warning ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Aug 18 2011 - 8:36am

Why Our Heart Can't Regenerate Itself- Yet

Why did adult human cardiac myocytes, specialized muscle cells in the heart,  lose the ability found in newts and salamanders to proliferate, perhaps explaining why the human heart has little regenerative capacity?   A study using cell lines and mice may ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2011 - 4:52pm