Genetics & Molecular Biology

Mitochondrial-Style Supercomputers, Powered By ATP

The substance that provides energy to many of the cells in our bodies, Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), may also be able to power the next generation of supercomputers, according to an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which t ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2016 - 7:30am

Pseudoscience To Shine At Houston Science Museum

Houston, we have a problem.  Well, you have a problem.  The Houston Museum of Natural Science (Twitter: @HMNS) is sponsoring an event that slams science, denigrates technology, and gifts its credibility to a non-scientific movement. ...

Article - Kevin M. Folta - Mar 27 2016 - 9:47am

The Secret Science Behind Bodily Secretions

The salivary gland secretes saliva that helps us chew and swallow the food we eat while the pancreas secretes digestive juices that enable our bodies to break down the fat, protein, and carbohydrates in the food. Secretions like these are important in cou ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2016 - 2:24pm

Xenotransplantation: Pig Hearts In Baboons

Could organs explanted from other mammals save human lives someday? A new study shows that genetically modified pig hearts developed by US and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich researchers can survive for more than up to 2½ years when transp ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2016 - 2:29pm

Fasting Mimicking Diet Diet Claims To Slow Aging, While This Genetic Mutation Does

With the help of a small stool, Mercy Carrion clambers onto an examination table. The obese 50-year-old woman stands just 115.6 cm (3’9.5’’) tall. Despite being overweight, Mercy shows no sign of developing diabetes and has remarkably low blood pressure a ...

Article - Mosaic Science - Apr 18 2016 - 8:00am

Increases In Food Allergies Or Diagnoses? No Change In IgE Antibody Levels, Finds Study

There have been increases in prevalence of food allergies over the past several decades but a debate over why; some fundraising groups and websites claim it is due to science changing food while some say it is simply better diagnosis and others say it cou ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 25 2016 - 4:30pm

Lactose Intolerance And Mental Illness- Because Epigenetics Can Explain Anything

A new claims the epigenetics of lactose intolerance may provide an approach to understanding schizophrenia- perhaps because both lactose intolerance and schizophrenia are inherited and neither condition emerges in the first years of life and in a booming ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2016 - 8:15am

Epigenetic: The Imprinter Of All Maladies

Epigenetics is everywhere. Nary a day goes by without some news story or press release telling us something it explains. Why does autism run in families?  Epigenetics. Why do you have trouble losing weight? Epigenetics. Why are vaccines dangerous? Epigene ...

Article - Michael Eisen - May 11 2016 - 12:58pm

Sweet Irony: The Environmental Impacts Of GMO Sugar Science Denial

Several times a year I find myself exiting the Florida’s Turnpike at Yeehaw Junction and heading south.  When I get to the small town of Okeechobee I take a left and head down Route 98 through Florida’s extensive agricultural backyard.  Flanked by Lake Ok ...

Article - Kevin M. Folta - May 14 2016 - 7:07am

Family History Is Why One Third Of Children Have Higher Levels Of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors

A new study published in Diabetologia finds that children with a strong family history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and/or type 2 diabetes were found to have cholesterol levels significantly higher than children with no family history of those conditio ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2016 - 7:15am