Genetics & Molecular Biology

Antioxidant Supplements Are Not Science But CoQ In Mitochondria Is

Since the 1960s, antioxidant supplements have been promoted as a miracle cure and that has never been true- preventing oxidation too much would be as bad as not preventing enough- but luckily few supplements make coenzyme Q bioavailable at all. Evolution c ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2023 - 3:04pm

Antioxidants: Imidazole Dipeptides Found In Beef, Pork And Chicken

Imidazole dipeptides have been been linked to beneficial effects such as relieving fatigue and, with far less credibility, preventing dementia, and a new study has found that 2-oxo-imidazole-containing dipeptides (2-oxo-IDPs), which have one more oxygen at ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2023 - 10:56am

Uncovering The Genetic Roots Of ADHD: How Early Brain Development And Dopamine Play A Role

The complexities of the human brain and its underlying genetic and biological mechanisms are truly fascinating. A recent study by scientists at Aarhus University sheds new light on the genetic factors underlying attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Feb 23 2023 - 2:03pm

CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Can Limit Agricultural Pests, But Will Environmentalists Accept Modern Science?

CRISPR/Cas9 technology has led to a “homing gene drive system” based on a specific Drosophila suzukii gene called doublesex that can suppress populations of D. suzukii vinegar flies – the “spotted-wing Drosophila” that devastate soft-skinned fruit in North ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 12 2023 - 2:23pm

Thanks To Ancient Evolution, Your Body Makes Its Own Anti-Viral Drugs

Antiviral drugs are generally considered to be a 20th century invention. But recent research has uncovered an unexpected facet to your immune system: It can synthesize its own antiviral molecules in response to viral infections. My laboratory studies a pr ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 16 2023 - 12:44pm

Concern About Microplastics From Sex Toys Overblown

Microplastics are a kernel of biological concern that gets magnified by hype, like endocrine "disrupting" chemicals or weedkillers detectable in breast milk. In modern times, we can detect anything in anything, so the 'zero' levels of t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 14 2023 - 6:21pm

We're So Wealthy Even Poor People Can Afford To Be Fat- Ask For Less Fatty Liver Disease For Christmas

The upside to greater wealth equality than at any point in human history is that nearly everyone can afford food for the first time ever. The famines of the 1980s have been effectively eliminated by science. The downside is that cultural maturity has not k ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2023 - 11:54am

I confess: I'm jealous of frogs, lizards and salamanders because of their stem cells

I confess. I'm jealous of frogs, lizards and salamanders. Why? Because of their stem cells and transdifferentiation potential. Compared to them, us humans are pathetic in terms of our ability to heal ourselves, regenerate body structures, and change ...

Blog Post - Paul Knoepfler - Jan 11 2024 - 2:02pm

APA Gene Expression Mechanism May Have Immunity, Cancer Implications

Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is an RNA processing mechanism that regulates gene expression by generating different ends on RNA transcripts of the same gene. Though it affects more than half of human genes, the significance of APA was poorly understoo ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2024 - 4:27pm

Life May Be Found In Sea Spray Of Moons Orbiting Saturn Or Jupiter Next Year

Life may be detected in a single ice grain containing one bacterial cell or portions of a cell which means it could be found in the frozen sea spray from the moons orbiting Saturn or Jupiter. Finding that will take is a mass spectrometer onboard a spacecra ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2024 - 10:53pm