Genetics & Molecular Biology
- Forgetting Is Key To Learning (For Flies), Study Finds
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Scientists have known that newly acquired, short-term memories are often fleeting, but a new study of Drosophila in Cell suggests that there is a good reason for that kind of forgetfulness. An active process of erasing memories may be as important as the a ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2010 - 3:36pm
- Unraveling The Timing Of Cell Division
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Writing in Cell, a team of biologists say they have unraveled the biochemistry of how bacteria so precisely time cell division, a key element in understanding how all organisms from bacteria to humans use their biological clocks to control basic cellular f ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2010 - 6:29pm
- How Genes And Environment Collaborate To Cause Disease
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A recent study in the American Journal of Human Genetics has revealed how human genes interact with their environment to boost disease risk. The authors say the findings shed light on why the search for specific gene variants linked to human diseases can o ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2010 - 7:58pm
- Calcineurin Critical To Normal Heart Function
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The enzyme calcineurin is critical to normal development and function of heart cells, and loss of the protein leads to heart problems and death in genetically modified mice, according to researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center The ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2010 - 1:44pm
- You Telo-Me, I Tell-o You
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There is a new article out in today’s Molecular System Biology, which has the media saying the typical baloney-filled things like “The Key to Aging Discovered,” “Breakthrough to Immortality,” and “Live Forever?” ...
Article - Greg Critser - Feb 19 2010 - 7:04pm
- New Evidence For 'RNA World' Hypothesis
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A new RNA molecule created by University of Colorado scientists can catalyze a key reaction needed to synthesize proteins. The discovery may have significant implications, researchers say, because it further substantiates the 'RNA World' hypothes ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2010 - 4:46pm
- Face Recognition Ability Likely Determined By Genetics
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UCL (University College London) scientists studying face recognition in identical twins say the essential skill is largely determined by our genetics. Published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study found that identical tw ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2010 - 5:05pm
- We Still Can't Explain Biology With Molecules
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Most science talks I listen to, even good ones, leave me dissatisfied because the stories I hear never come to a complete resolution. The issue is this: we can get from traits to genes, and from genes to molecular biology. But we have largely failed at get ...
Article - Michael White - Feb 23 2010 - 10:18pm
- Heated Research On The Origin Of Life In Warm Waters And Ernesto Di Mauro
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Who's Ernesto Di Mauro? He is Professor of Molecular Biology at the Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. I caught his recent research in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, which "publishes papers bas ...
Article - Hatice Cullingford - Feb 23 2010 - 6:49pm
- Small Dogs Came From Middle East 12,000 Years Ago
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A new study of the IGF1 gene in BMC biology has found that small domestic dogs probably originated in the Middle East more than 12,000 years ago. Researchers traced the evolutionary history of IGF1, finding that the version of the gene that is a major dete ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2010 - 7:50pm
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