Genetics & Molecular Biology

G proteins are molecular switches on the insides of cell membranes. They convey important signals to the inner workings of the cells. The associated receptors are targeted by all kinds of medications. Scientists are now shedding light on precisely how the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2016 - 9:20am

Your Coffee Habits May Be Written In Your DNA

Researchers have identified a DNA variation in a gene called PDSS2 that appears to curb coffee consumption. The authors suggest that the gene reduces the ability of cells to breakdown caffeine, causing it to stay in the body for longer. This means that a ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2016 - 1:08pm

Sudden Death In Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy- The Exercise Didn't Do It

Sudden death in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is sometimes associated with exercise, but that may be just medical reductionism looking for any answer. Instead, a number of factors could have been involved, since nearly 80% of patients i ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2016 - 3:48pm

Should You Sleep Wearing Earplugs?

“Never put anything smaller than your elbow into your ear” is something we’ve been wisely cautioned against at some stage or another. But more of us are ignoring this advice. We use in-the-ear-headphones to listen to music, car keys and hair pins to scrat ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 5 2016 - 8:40am

Nrk Suppressor Gene For Breast Cancer In Mice

In recent years, the incidence of breast cancer has been increasing worldwide, and breast cancer is becoming a serious object of public concern. The onset of breast cancer is closely related to the sex hormone estrogen, and estrogen antagonists such as ta ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2016 - 6:32am

5 Ways To Improve Reproducibility In Biomedical Research

Daniel Drucker's unofficial laboratory slogan is "I'd rather be third and right, than first and wrong." After 30 years, he has seen high-profile journal article after article proclaim the beginning of the end for diseases he studies li ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2016 - 5:15pm

Yoshinori Ohsumi Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine 2016 "For His Discoveries Of Mechanisms For Autophagy"

Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016 "for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy", the body's recycling system. Autophagy can rapidly provide fuel for ener ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2016 - 5:32am

Cornell Students Want Their Own Kangaroo Court For GMOs

Cornell students want to "debate" GMOs tomorrow, and while finding anti-science activists is easy- Michael Hanson of Consumers Union will go anywhere to undermine food, that is why The Dr. Oz Show loves him, and they also got someone named Jonath ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 4 2016 - 2:46pm

Biological Mystery: Why Would Replacing Diet Beverages With Water Help Diabetic Patients Lose Weight?

In a recent paper, of 81 overweight and obese women with type 2 diabetes who usually consumed diet beverages and were on a weight loss program, those who substituted water for diet beverages after their lunch for 24 weeks had a greater decrease in weight ( ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 18 2016 - 5:19am

Thanksgiving Sleepiness- It's Protein And Salt, Not Tryptophan In Turkey

We've all felt sleepy after a big Thanksgiving meal and tryptophan usually gets the bad rap- but there simply isn't enough of it to make a difference. Yet clearly something is making many of us take longer naps after binging on supper. A recent s ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2016 - 10:33am