Genetics & Molecular Biology

Genetically Engineered Fruit Flies Could Save Crops Better Than Sterilization

The Mediterranean fruit fly is a serious agricultural pest, it infests more than 300 types of cultivated and wild fruits, vegetables and nuts and causes extreme damage to crops all around the world.  The fly is currently controlled by a combination of ins ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2014 - 6:30am

Killing Cancer Cells With Salt

Researchers have create a molecule that can cause cancer cells to self-destruct by carrying sodium and chloride ions into the cells. Synthetic ion transporters have been created before, but this is the first time researchers have demonstrated how an influx ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2014 - 7:00am

How To Speed Up A Woman's Psychological Biological Clock

Not that you want to do this but there is an easy way to speed up a woman's reproductive timing- just get a clock. Not one of those modern digital things, an actual ticking clock will literally do it, says a paper upcoming in Human Nature. It turns o ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2014 - 1:02pm

Lhx1 Is The Gene For Jet Lag

Scientists have identified a gene, Lhx1, that regulates sleep and wake rhythms. The discovery of the role Lhx1 provides scientists with a potential therapeutic target to help night-shift workers or jet lagged travelers adjust to time differences more quic ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2014 - 3:42pm

Notch Signaling And New Blood: Tracing The Beginnings Of Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are adult stem cells isolated from blood or bone marrow that can renew themselves and differentiate into a variety of specialized cells. They give rise to all other blood cell types but their development has long remained a ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2014 - 11:00am

Cytoplasm: Inside The Cell, An Ocean Of Fluctuating Waves

The cytoplasm of mammalian cells is a viscous fluid, with organelles and proteins jiggling against one another and drifting at random. Yet a new biophysical study finds that those drifting objects are subject to a very different type of environment than w ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2014 - 12:38pm

Parenting Before Conception: You Aren't Locked Into An Epigenetic Destiny

There's evidence that a child's future health is influenced by more than just their parents' genetic material and can be impacted by environmental factors, but what is being done with that is something of a concern. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2014 - 2:20pm

Enzyme 12-LO Necessary For Development Of Diabetes- Study

An enzyme called 12-LO promotes obesity-induced oxidative stress in the pancreatic cells and that has been linked to diabetes (and pre-diabetes, if you prefer made-up conditions mainstream science wishes studies would stop claiming to be about). 12-LO ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2014 - 4:59pm

Beyond X And Y Chromosomes: A New Genetic Basis For Sex Determination

Men and women differ in plenty of ways,and scientists have long known that genetic differences buried deep within our DNA underlie these distinctions but past research has primarily focused on understanding how the genes that encode proteins act as sex de ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 18 2014 - 4:21pm

Enzyme Brake Pads Block Plant Hormone

Researchers trying to get new information about the metabolism of plants can switch off individual genes and study the resulting changes but researchers in a new study adopted a different approach.  Erich Kombrink from the Max Planck Institute for Plant B ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2014 - 10:00am