Genetics & Molecular Biology

Can Transplanted Embryonic Stem Cells Integrate Into Target Organs? A Neuron Test Case

Before human embryonic stem cells can be examined for therapeutic potential it must be determined whether or not transplanted cells can functionally integrate into target organs or tissues. Human embryonic stem cells (hESC), and induced pluripotent stem ce ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2011 - 12:00pm

Scientists Develop Method (That Works) To Create Proteins In Laboratory

The most abundant and important molecules in all living organisms are proteins; after all they manage to participate in every single one of life’s essential reactions. So it is easy to see why scientists have been making such a fuss trying to learn how to ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Dec 12 2011 - 10:30am

BIOTECHNOLOGICALASPECTS OF SECONDARY METABOLITE PRODUCTION

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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Dec 14 2011 - 11:39am

B12 Deficiency: Second Oldest Gene Mutation Discovered

A gene mutation dating back to 11,600 B.C. is the second oldest human disease mutation discovered so far.  The investigators described the mutation in people of Arabic, Turkish and Jewish ancestry, which causes a rare, inherited vitamin B12 deficiency call ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2011 - 12:29pm

Research That Goes Viral: An Argument For More Science 2.0 In Biology

Not to play favorites but there is one area where physics has the life sciences beat: sharing.  With preprints and data, the newest findings zip around the globe, before peer review, and science does not collapse. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2012 - 11:53am

Christie Wilcox Takes On Anti-GMO Scaremongering In The Atlantic

Ari Levaux, a food columnist, wrote about genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in The Atlantic. Fair enough, it is a hot-button issue among anti-science progressives and they need to sell pageviews over there so it isn't much of a surprise.  He' ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 23 2012 - 11:39pm

Mind-boggling Vastness And Speed Of The Small Helps Evolution

TED talks declined from ‘must-see-every-single-one’ to less interesting than liveleak.com, even from a science and technology perspective- seen a chicken plugger? Superfast slot cars? Bubble Vortices anybody? So it is worthwhile to point out interesting T ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jan 13 2012 - 9:01pm

Open Access Biology Is So Shiny

Have you heard of biobricks? They're the answer--or at least an answer--to the accusation made here at Science 2.0 and elsewhere that: ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Jan 17 2012 - 3:58pm

Anti-Science Europe Being Left Behind On Food Security

Efforts at obfuscation and fomenting false concerns by kooky anti-science food activists aren't working.  They spent the better part of the last decade blocking science advancements in food security insisting 'the science isn't settled' ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 8 2012 - 5:32pm

Jack Szostak And The Origin Of Life

Nobel Prize winner Jack Szostak recently wrote an opinion piece titled "Attempts to Define Life Do Not Help to Understand the Origin of Life" which was published in the Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. (open access, so you can read ...

Article - Steve Davis - Sep 1 2012 - 1:53am