Genetics & Molecular Biology

Part Tangerine, Part Orange, Part Mandarin, All New Fruit

Researchers at the University of California Riverside (UCR) have developed a new mid-season maturing variety of tangerine. They call it DaisySL, for for Daisy seedless. It is made from an irradiated bud of the seedy diploid mandarin cultivar 'Daisy,& ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 4 2009 - 5:32pm

Lab BMC II

Los alumnos deberán analizar información reciente en los temas indicados en el programa. Al finalizar el curso serán capaces de comprender la relación que existe entre los distintos tipos del metabolismo y de integrar dicho en relación al funcionamiento de ...

Blog Post - Ángel Díaz - Aug 9 2009 - 10:44am

EBAG9: Estrogen-Dependent Switch Hinders Power Of Immune Cells

The sex hormone estrogen tempers the killing activity of immune cells called cytotoxic T cells (CTLs), which are known to attack tumor cells and cells infected by viruses. Estrogen plays a critical role in the regulation of growth and the development of ce ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2009 - 9:29am

Molecular Condom Is AIDS Prevention For Women (And Men Won't Even Know)

A group of University of Utah scientists say they developed a "molecular condom" that could help protect women against AIDS in Africa and other impoverished areas. It's a vaginal gel that turns semisolid in the presence of semen, trapping AI ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2009 - 8:18pm

Systems Biology Graphical Notation- Circuit Diagrams For Biotechnology

Biology has just gotten a new set of standards for graphically representing biological information, biology's equivalent of the circuit diagram in electronics. Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Ins ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2009 - 3:22pm

First Version: The Systems Biology Graphical Notation

It is a start. The first version of the Systems Biology Graphical Notation (SBGN) was published for the process diagram, the entity relationship diagram, and the activity flow diagram. The figure caption below is copied from the August 8 issue of the journ ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Aug 13 2009 - 5:24pm

DNA, Probability And Fallacy

Today, I was met by a science-debunker (laugh a little, you know you want to.) He didn't know that I work in the field of biotechnology, or that I am a scientist. I am often met with the, " you're too pretty to have a high IQ," mentalit ...

Article - Cher One - Aug 19 2009 - 2:12pm

Physicist Snobbery Alert

I'm not sure what Freeman Dyson has been smoking when he argues that cutting-edge genome science is ripe for hobbyists: ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Aug 20 2009 - 4:00pm

Deafness: Essential Claudin-9 Protein Deficit Caused By Gene Mutation

Researchers at the University of Iowa and Kansas State University say a deafness-causing gene defect in mice helped identify a new protein that protects sensory cells in the ear, according to findings in PLoS Genetics.  In humans, hereditary deafness is on ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 21 2009 - 4:10pm

Recent advances in plant biotechnology: Applications in Agriculture.

Recent advances in plant biotechnology: Applications in Agriculture. Ashwani Kumar Professor of Botany, Department of Botany and P G School of Biotechnology University of Rajasthan Jaipur 302004. msku4@hotmail.com Tel 0141 2711654 (Off) 0141 2654100 (Res) ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 21 2009 - 11:29am