Genetics & Molecular Biology

Lightweight drinkers rejoice, it may be nature that keeps you from pounding shots like Indiana Jones squeeze Marion in "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Researchers at North Carolina State University have found a genetic 'switch' in fruit flie ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2009 - 12:39pm

Nepotism Has Its Benefits

Nepotism has a bad connotation in the workplace or French politics but being surrounded by relatives does lead to better group dynamics and more cooperation in some animals, and certainly spiders, according to a new study published in BMC Evolutionary Biol ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2009 - 6:01pm

A Solution To Biology's 'Mystery Of The Mysteries'?

"Speciation is one of the most fascinating, unsolved problems in biology," says Harmit Malik, Ph.D., an associate member of the Hutchinson Center's Basic Sciences Division. The first appearance of new beings on Earth- the mystery of myster ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2009 - 1:22pm

Your Bad Driving May Be Genetic

Are accident rates higher for people with a particular gene variant? Bad drivers may, in part, have their genes to blame, suggests a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists. People with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2009 - 11:28am

Molecular Markers

The development of molecular techniques for genetic analysis has led to a great augmentation in our knowledge of crop genetics and our understanding of the structure and behavior of various crop genomes. These molecular techniques, in particular the applic ...

Article - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 2 2009 - 1:59pm

Human Embryonic Stem Cells Differentiated Into Lung Tissue

Scientists have successfully differentiated human embryonic stem cells (hESC) into major cell types of lung epithelial tissue, a technique which could provide an alternative to lung transplants for patients with lung injury due to chronic pulmonary disease ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2009 - 4:01pm

Aggression gene = reduced murder sentence

Instead of using someone else's urine in random drug testing, perhaps criminals can step it up a notch on the scientific ladder and use someone else's genome. Can your genes ever absolve you of responsibility for a particular act? New Scientist f ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Nov 4 2009 - 7:11pm

PEPcase and salinity tolerance

PEPcase determinations As a key enzyme in C4-photosynthesis and Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (Kluge, 1983), phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (EC 4.1.1.31) has been studied intensively in several laboratories, particularly in the last decade. In most studies ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 8 2009 - 8:20am

Finding Function in Biological Circuits

How should we talk about biological networks or systems? Roger Brent and Jehoshua Bruck stated the problem like this: ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Nov 9 2009 - 4:25pm

Is Genetic Dating Accurate?

Conventional types of genetic analysis may not be as accurate as believed, according to researchers writing in Trends in Genetics. Their analysis of penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that they ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2009 - 1:08pm