Genetics & Molecular Biology

The Crystal Structure Of Mitochondrial Complex I

Mitochondria produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), commonly called the universal energy currency of the body. The driver for this process is an electrochemical membrane potential, which is created by a series of proton pumps- positive charges and negative ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2015 - 9:00am

'Healthy' Fat Tissue Could Be Key To Reversing Type 2 Diabetes

Preventing inflammation in obese fat tissue may hold the key to preventing or even reversing type 2 diabetes, new research has found. Researchers from Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and the RIKEN Institute, Japan found they could 'r ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2015 - 11:01am

Mitochondrial Disease: 2,500 UK Women Could Be Spared Worrying About Transmitting It

Almost 2,500 women of child-bearing age in the United Kingdom are at risk of transmitting mitochondrial disease to their children, evidence of how many families could potentially be helped by new IVF techniques to it. The paper adds data to emotional debat ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2015 - 12:12am

Who's Going To Win The Super Bowl? Athlete Biological Clocks Might Help Tell Us

The betting line created for this weekend's Super Bowl is done by very smart people. They are not trying to fool anyone, they want the betting to be as even as possible and they make their money on a 'commission'- the vigorish or 'vig&# ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2015 - 2:32pm

Reconciling Two Models Of Cellular Aging: Understanding The Nuclear Landscape

Researchers have mapped the physical structure of the nuclear landscape to better understand changes in genomic interactions occurring in cell senescence and aging. Their findings have allowed them to reconcile the contradictory observations of two current ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 31 2015 - 11:11am

Fewer Wild Fish Needed: Genetically Modified Plants Produce Omega-3 Fish Oil

Researchers have revealed that genetically modified Camelina plants produce omega-3 fish oils suitable for feeding Atlantic salmon. The new GMO plants can produce up to 20% of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), one of the two omega-3 LC PUFA conferring health be ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 31 2015 - 11:34am

Babies May Cause Their Own Preterm Births

Some babies seem to have a genetic predisposition to a higher risk of being born too soon, according to a paper being presented Thursday at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting in San Diego. The study Birth found that variants in t ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2015 - 10:11am

Limostatin: Insulin-Decreasing Hormone Discovered

An insulin-regulating hormone that had only been postulated to exist has been discovered. The hormone, called limostatin after the Greek goddess of starvation, Limos, tamps down circulating insulin levels during recovery from fasting or starvation. In this ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2015 - 3:20pm

Viral Enigma Machine Discovered- Now We Need A Bletchley Park

Researchers have cracked a code that governs infections by the common cold and polio viruses. The code was known, it was 'hidden in plain sight' in the sequence of the ribonucleic acid (RNA) that makes up this type of viral genome but its meanin ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2015 - 10:11am

We're All Going To Die: Knowing When May Just Be A Matter Of Chromosomes

Tiny biological clocks attached to our chromosomes can't tell us the exact moment of our death, but they can narrow it down. These DNA end caps, called telomeres, are the great predictors of life expectancy: the shorter your telomeres, the shorter you ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2015 - 2:12pm