Genetics & Molecular Biology
- Implications of The Sexual Attraction Exception
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There was a study done over a decade ago by Claud Wedekind in which 44 men wore the same T-shirt for three days, refraining from deodorants and scented soaps so they wouldn’t interfere with their smell. Thereafter women sniffed the shirts and indicated wh ...
Blog Post - James Hawkins - Sep 9 2024 - 4:56pm
- Genetic Engineering Of Barley 100 Years Ago Made Beer And Whiskey Great
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In 1929, an experiment with 28 barley varieties showed why barley, one of the world’s most important cereal crops for at least 12,000 years, has been so adaptable, growing everywhere from Norway to the mountains of South America, and why that means the fut ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2024 - 9:48pm
- Bacterial Genes Can Be Genetic Shapeshifters
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Prokaryotes, single-cell organisms such as bacteria, undergo inversions which cause a physical flip of a segment of DNA and change an organism’s genetic identity the way you might change a wig. They can occur within a single gene, in defiance of the more c ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2024 - 10:13am
- Genetic Improvement Led To Increased Yields Of Soybeans
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Soybeans are a tremendously successful crop and a new study that traced the genetic changes in varieties over the last 80 years of soybean breeding found that increases in yield gains and an increased rate of gains over the years are largely due to the co ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2024 - 10:17am
- Smarter Soybeans Mean Affordable Food In Poorer Regions
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It is easy for wealthy countries to spend $135 billion on an organic food process that uses higher quantities of older, more toxic pesticides at greater environmental strain, because it is a niche luxury item. In countries that are poor, which often means ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2024 - 10:20am
- Non-Europeans Opt Out Of Genomic Databases, Leading To Lack Of Diversity
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When Senator Elizabeth Warren had her claims of native ancestry debunked by DNA testing, it was a warning shot to everyone who identifies that way- don't take a test. Most native Americans had long said that anyway, they knew how biology worked better ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2024 - 12:09pm
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