Genetics & Molecular Biology
- Genome-Wide Association Analysis May Mean More Accurate Risk Of Coronary Heart Disease
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Have you been told you have a greater risk of heart disease based on family history? What does that even mean? ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 6 2020 - 3:45pm
- Why GMO Wine Grapes Would Be Cool
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I am 99.9% sure that there will never be commercial production of genetically engineered wine grapes ("GMO" to use the common misnomer). Even so, I'd like to indulge in imagining what could be if we lived in some parallel universe where rat ...
Article - Steve Savage - Nov 8 2020 - 8:12pm
- The GMOs That Fixed Global Warming
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A lot of environmentalists raise money talking about climate change, but their energy recommendations- mitigation, rationing, high cost- are regressive. Scientists are interested in progress, and nothing has exemplified that like genetically modified organ ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2020 - 2:03am
- Feeding The World For Thanksgiving 2050: New Wheat And Barley Genomes
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The 10+ Wheat Genomes Project, led by University of Saskatchewan Professor Curtis Pozniak, and the International Barley Pan Genome Sequencing Consortium, led by Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Professor Nils Stein, have sequence ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2020 - 2:01pm
- Genes For Facial Features Identified- Including What We Share With Extinct Denisovans
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A new study has identified nine new regions that influence facial features such as nose, lip, jaw, and brow shape The analysis of genetic data from more than 6,000 volunteers across Latin America was designed to find genes that determine the shape of a pe ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 8 2021 - 9:00am
- Homeostasis And The Math Of Human Biology
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Outside extreme temperature environments, our body temperatures remain around 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, no matter how hot or cold the. For most people, the sugar levels in our blood remain fairly constant even after drinking a glass of orange juice, which i ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2021 - 9:31am
- CRISPR-Cas9: Now Knocking Out 12 Genes At Once
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Just a few short years ago, CRISPR-Cas9 technology took the world of molecular biology by storm because it allowed a cost-effective way to shut off or turn on traits in organisms without any side effects. CRISPR is an acronym of Clustered Regularly Intersp ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 22 2021 - 4:22pm
- Genetically Rescued Organism: Eucalyptus That Can't Be An Invasive Species
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Eucalyptus trees are a pest-resistant evergreen that produce good lumber and oil that wealthy elites in the "wellness" marketplace buy- they are also an invasive species. A new paper shows how scientists used CRISPR-Cas9 to knock out LEAFY, the m ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2021 - 1:31pm
- This Malaria Preventing Mosquito Is Not A GMO But Is A Science Boost For Nature- Will Activists Want To Block It?
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Mosquitoes like Aedes aegypti don't have any value ecologically. If Thanos snapped them out of existence tomorrow there is nothing they do that won't immediately be taken up by 3,000 other mosquito species, not to mention 25,000 bee species when ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 20 2021 - 6:01am
- Cheese Is Already GMO, Consumers Now Also Want Real Cheese With No Cows Involved At All
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Cheese and insulin are two products most people don't realize were GMOs long before they became the target of anti-science groups. GMOs were instead embraced by activists like Rachel Carson, who saw them as a way to produce a lot more of things like i ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2021 - 10:09am