Genetics & Molecular Biology
- Good Morning! Did You Sleep Poorly Because Of Your Genes?
-
A new paper suggests 47 links between our genetic code and the quality, quantity and timing of our sleep. The correlation was created using 85,670 participants of UK Biobank and 5,819 individuals from three other studies, who wore accelerometers (e.g. Fitb ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 4 2020 - 7:55am
- Females And Alcoholism: Blame Estrogen?
-
A new paper posits that fluctuating estrogen levels may make alcohol more rewarding. The giant caveat is that the study was in mice, and despite what you may read in corporate media, mice are not little people, so this research is firmly in the "explo ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2020 - 4:40pm
- QIH: Mice Don't Hibernate, But Now They Can- And What That May Mean For Human Space Travel
-
Humans do not hibernate, but in science-fiction films long-distance travel often involves "suspended animation" where muscular atrophy, starvation, and oxygen deprivation don't occur. Mice don't hibernate either but they just did in ex ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 12 2020 - 11:43am
- A Bull Calf Has Been Genetically Optimized To Produce 75% Males
-
Using the genome-editing technology CRISPR, researchers can make targeted cuts to the genome or insert useful genes, called a gene knock-in, and they have done it with the cattle SRY gene, responsible for initiating male development, into a bovine embryo. ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2020 - 3:17pm
- Surrogate Sires: CRISPR Pigs And Cattle Could Produce Sperm Carrying Only The Genetic Traits Of Donor Animals
-
In the old days, if you wanted to spread desirable characteristics in livestock you had to try breeding and hope for the best. The 19th century breakthroughs in genetics promised a future where trial and error was no longer the norm. Now, with desire to op ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2020 - 7:12pm
- Not Just Sex: The Male Y Chromosome Does More Than Previously Thought
-
Humans each have 23 pairs of chromosomes, the 23rd of which determines sex. Females carry two X sex chromosomes, males carry one X and one Y chromosome. Yet this male chromosome carries genes that females lack and those male genes are expressed in all cell ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2020 - 5:49pm
- Genome-Wide Association Analysis May Mean More Accurate Risk Of Coronary Heart Disease
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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