Genetics & Molecular Biology

How Handedness Happens

Many proteins and other functional molecules in our bodies display a striking characteristic: They can exist in two distinct forms that are mirror images of each other,  chirality or "handedness", like your right hand and left hand, and each of o ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2012 - 1:08pm

Science Win: Bt Eggplant Gets Government Approval In Philippines

Anti-science hippies who invoke the precautionary principle to extremes (but only about their own causes) are not just an American cult phenomenon; Europe invented anti-science hysteria and the term Frankenfood. In the Philippines,  the problems and hyster ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 17 2012 - 11:31am

Nature, Nurture, Epigenetics And Vinclozolin

Researchers writing in PNAS state they have seen an increased reaction to stress in animals whose ancestors were exposed to an environmental compound, vinclozolin, a popular fruit and vegetable fungicide, even generations earlier. The findings put a new t ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2012 - 6:11pm

Skin Into Heart Tissue Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Skin cells, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), from heart failure patients have been reprogrammed to transform into healthy, new heart muscle cells that are capable of integrating with existing heart tissue, according to a new paper in  the European H ...

Article - News Staff - May 23 2012 - 11:09am

'RNA World' Hypothesis Gets A Challenge

The ribosome is the cell's protein-building workbench and ribonucleic acids, the molecules we call RNA, are key tools perform a host of vital functions in cells.According to a new analysis, even before the ribosome's many working parts were recru ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2012 - 11:42am

Stem Cells Market- Government Is Holding It Back

Stem cell research is very dynamic with research trends, focus, and approaches evolving rapidly- but increased government restrictions on the private sector have led to a steep decline in venture capital, which threatens to slow the pace of research and d ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2012 - 11:00am

Can't Quit Smoking? Blame Your Genes

Oppressed people under attack in the War Against Smokers may have a new defender- science.  ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2012 - 1:04am

Evading MicroRNA Control By Differential Poly-Adenylation Patterns-

A major function of microRNAs is to inhibit messenger RNA (mRNA) translation by binding to a specific 3’ untranslated region (UTR) through sequence complementation. In a recent study published in the March 2012 issue of  Cell Stem Cell, Boutet et al. disco ...

Article - Jennifer Wong - Feb 7 2013 - 6:33pm

Induced pluripotent stem cell research faces many challenges- but persistence pays off

Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) research in the last 2 years has faced many twists and turns. With scientists uncovering a number of disturbing genomic abnormalities in these cells, the future of iPSC technology looked like a sea of despair. But lucky ...

Blog Post - Jennifer Wong - Jun 9 2012 - 4:14pm

Unravelling The Mystery Of The Glycome

New chemical compounds that can make key modifications to common sugar molecules- glycans- which are found on the surface of all cells in our body are new tools for investigating treatments for chronic inflammation, autoimmune diseases, cancer metastasis a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2012 - 10:35pm