Genetics & Molecular Biology

Sneezing In The Sun

After eight years and I am still learning new things my husband: we were walking down the street yesterday when the clouds parted, revealing a bright sun and he consequently sneezed! Now I realize that this phenomenon affects a significant number of other ...

Article - Sarda Sahney - May 10 2007 - 11:14am

Joint Genome Institute Sets Standard For Metagenomic Data Analysis

With the advent of more powerful and economical DNA sequencing technologies, gene discovery and characterization is transitioning from single-organism studies to revealing the potential biotechnology applications embedded in communities of microbial genome ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2007 - 9:28am

Studying General Principles Of Biological Systems- How Flies Make Sense Of Smell

About two months ago I was in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, attending the Keystone Symposium on Systems Biology and Regulatory Networks. I went hoping to hear about forward-looking research that deals with some of the most fundamental outstanding questions ...

Article - Michael White - May 17 2007 - 9:38am

Are You Descended From Genghis Khan?

Approximately 16 million Asian men consider themselves to be Genghis Khan’s descendants. It turns out that may actually be true. Almost four years ago Zerijal and fellow researchers published a paper showing Y-chromosome variability of 2,123 inhabitants of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 19 2007 - 10:21pm

Hox Gene Research And New Data On How Fish Grew Feet

Long before animals with limbs (tetrapods) came onto the scene about 365 million years ago, fish already possessed the genes associated with helping to grow hands and feet (autopods) report University of Chicago researchers. Paddlefish fins exhibit a uniqu ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2009 - 3:11pm

Researchers Reverse Heart Failure With Gene Therapy

Heart researchers at the Center for Translational Medicine at Jefferson Medical College have used gene therapy to reverse heart failure in animals. In addition, they found that this gene therapy strategy had "unique and additive effects" to curre ...

Article - News Staff - May 23 2007 - 5:23pm

Flexible Genes Allow Ants To Change Destiny

The discovery of a flexible genetic coding in leaf-cutting ants sheds new light on how one of nature's ultimate self-organising species breeds optimum numbers of each worker type to ensure the smooth running of the colony. Research at the University o ...

Article - News Staff - May 24 2007 - 6:26pm

Flexible Genes Allow Ants To Change Destiny

The discovery of a flexible genetic coding in leaf-cutting ants sheds new light on how one of nature's ultimate self-organising species breeds optimum numbers of each worker type to ensure the smooth running of the colony. Research at the University ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2007 - 9:55pm

Conservative? Liberal? It May Be Your Genes

No matter where we are on the political spectrum, we all have the same underlying goals and behaviors: The pursuit of happiness, the American dream etc. This is, at the very least, the way psychologists had viewed political ideology for quite some time. Ho ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2007 - 9:15pm

Size Does Matter- Big Horns Mean Better Genes

Size matters. At least, it does to an alpine ibex. According to a team of international researchers, mature, male alpine ibex demonstrate a correlation between horn growth and genetic diversity. Past research studies have shown that greater genetic diversi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 6 2007 - 9:51am