Genetics & Molecular Biology
- Nature, Nurture, Epigenetics And Vinclozolin
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Researchers writing in PNAS state they have seen an increased reaction to stress in animals whose ancestors were exposed to an environmental compound, vinclozolin, a popular fruit and vegetable fungicide, even generations earlier. The findings put a new t ...
Article - News Staff - May 21 2012 - 6:11pm
- Skin Into Heart Tissue Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
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Skin cells, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), from heart failure patients have been reprogrammed to transform into healthy, new heart muscle cells that are capable of integrating with existing heart tissue, according to a new paper in the European H ...
Article - News Staff - May 23 2012 - 11:09am
- 'RNA World' Hypothesis Gets A Challenge
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The ribosome is the cell's protein-building workbench and ribonucleic acids, the molecules we call RNA, are key tools perform a host of vital functions in cells.According to a new analysis, even before the ribosome's many working parts were recru ...
Article - News Staff - May 27 2012 - 11:42am
- Stem Cells Market- Government Is Holding It Back
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Stem cell research is very dynamic with research trends, focus, and approaches evolving rapidly- but increased government restrictions on the private sector have led to a steep decline in venture capital, which threatens to slow the pace of research and d ...
Article - News Staff - May 30 2012 - 11:00am
- Can't Quit Smoking? Blame Your Genes
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Oppressed people under attack in the War Against Smokers may have a new defender- science. ...
Article - News Staff - May 31 2012 - 1:04am
- Evading MicroRNA Control By Differential Poly-Adenylation Patterns-
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A major function of microRNAs is to inhibit messenger RNA (mRNA) translation by binding to a specific 3’ untranslated region (UTR) through sequence complementation. In a recent study published in the March 2012 issue of Cell Stem Cell, Boutet et al. disco ...
Article - Jennifer Wong - Feb 7 2013 - 6:33pm
- Induced pluripotent stem cell research faces many challenges- but persistence pays off
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Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) research in the last 2 years has faced many twists and turns. With scientists uncovering a number of disturbing genomic abnormalities in these cells, the future of iPSC technology looked like a sea of despair. But lucky ...
Blog Post - Jennifer Wong - Jun 9 2012 - 4:14pm
- Unravelling The Mystery Of The Glycome
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New chemical compounds that can make key modifications to common sugar molecules- glycans- which are found on the surface of all cells in our body are new tools for investigating treatments for chronic inflammation, autoimmune diseases, cancer metastasis a ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2012 - 10:35pm
- European Testing For 'Racial Purity': A Concern
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In the giant 'Europeans are far more anti-science than Americans' file, we can now add another section on racism. Science can use genetic testing to understand risk factors- some groups have a greater risk than others- but that means interested g ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 14 2012 - 10:38am
- GMOs: Gene Transfer Is Neither Unnatural Nor Dangerous
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Last week I wrote about the anti-science campaign being waged by opponents of the use of genetically modified organisms in agriculture. In that post, I promised to address a series of questions/fears about GMOs that seem to underly peoples’ objections to ...
Article - Michael Eisen - Jun 27 2012 - 5:50pm
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