Genetics & Molecular Biology
- Rines Brain Molecule Implicated In Regulating Human Emotion And Mood
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A RIKEN research team says that an enzyme called Rines regulates Monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A), a major brain protein controlling emotion and mood, making it a potential drug target for treating depression. Monoamine oxidase A is an enzyme that breaks down ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2013 - 10:22pm
- New GMO Rice Protects Against Rotavirus Infection
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For children and immune-compromised adults in developing countries, diarrheal disease induced by rotavirus can be life threatening. Rotavirus is the leading cause of diarrhea in infants and young children worldwide, causing more than 114 million episodes ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2013 - 8:36pm
- Congenital Muscular Dystrophies Linked To Glycans
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Inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis or Huntington disease involve disease-causing genetic mutations that damage or remove a protein that has an essential role in the body. This protein defect is the root cause of the disease symptoms. But for conge ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2013 - 9:00am
- Paper Finds Genetic Overlap For 5 Major Psychiatric Disorders
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An international team has found evidence of substantial overlap for genetic risk factors shared between bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and schizophrenia and less overlap between those conditions and autism and attention deficit-hyperactivity ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2013 - 7:07pm
- TERC Gene Linked To Blood Cancer
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TERC, a gene which regulates the length of the telomere 'caps' on the ends of DNA and helps control the aging process by acting as a cell's internal clock, has been linked to cancer by a new study. Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Rese ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 18 2013 - 10:20pm
- Chromosome Inversions Can Provide Advantages To Cells
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A study shows for the first time that chromosomes rearrangements (such as inversions or translocations) can provide advantages to the cells that harbor them, depending on the environment they are exposed. ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 24 2013 - 1:39pm
- Synthetic Biology: Engineered Plants Create Their Own Fertilizer
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Since man discovered agriculture, farmers have used ingenious ways to pump more nitrogen into crop fields; farmers have planted legumes and plowed the entire crop under, strewn night soil or manure on the fields, shipped in bat dung from islands in the Pac ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 23 2013 - 11:38am
- Natalisin Change Shuts Down Reproductive Desire
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A neuropeptide named natalisin regulates the sexual activity and reproductive ability of insects, according to a new study in which the neuropeptide is observed and named Natalisin is composed of short chains of amino acids in the brain of insects and art ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2013 - 3:49pm
- When A Genetic Solution Saved The French Wine Industry
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Article - Steve Savage - Sep 9 2013 - 12:29am
- Echolocation's Convergent Evolution: Genetic Similarities Between Bats And Dolphins
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The evolution of similar traits in different species, a process known as convergent evolution, is widespread not only at the physical level, but also at the genetic level, and scientists who investigated the genomic basis for echolocation, one of the most ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2013 - 1:25pm
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