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Wool you believe it?? Sheeps wool!
In the intricate world of garment manufacturing, wool stands as a prized fiber, particularly fine wool, which significantly influences global trade. Its value hinges on quality, dictating market...
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CYC2 Expression and flower symmetry understood through convergent evolution
Scientists set out to capture a detailed family tree of the sunflower family, a family with over 28,000 species, based on DNA sequences. The sunflower head, which is radially symmetric (can be divided...
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Why Huntington's Disease may take so long to develop
In this article, researchers have found that the growth of copies in the HTT gene within specific brain cells is what causes Huntington's disease to progress. This growth, which can produce hundreds of...
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Future of Preventable Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that is transmitted by Ticks. This disease affects half a million people in the United States per year. Although antibiotics are needed to treat the disease, many...
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Urine can help you detect cancer??
Researchers at the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center have introduced a groundbreaking urine-based test for identifying head and neck tumors. This innovative method offers a non-invasive...
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C. elegans may be a model organism for studying telomere biology
Telomeres, the ends of the double-stranded DNA chromosomes, require proteins for protection. In mammals, shelterin is known to do this important job. Scientists at the University of Michigan have...
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How a DNA repair study is helping cancer studies
DNA damage takes place when cells are exposed to radiation which can stall or hurry cell growth leading to aging and cancer. Scientists got together to study further just how damaged DNA cells are...
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Gene discovered in ocean algae may help increase food production on land.
Scientists at UC Riverside in California recently discovered a gene that codes for the production of a chlorophyll specific to marine algae and kelp. Chlorophyll c is able to absorb wavelengths of...
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How Your Diet Can Impact Aging
It has become a popular topic to find ways to slow down aging or to stop it completely. Recently studies have shown how your diet could have effects on how fast you age or the way you age. A study...
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Gecko Morphs and Genetics!
This article discusses the genetics of a specific leopard gecko morph. In the pet trade, the term morph is utilized to describe different desirable color patterns, usually in which the animal is...
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Molecular determinants and signaling effects of PKA RIα phase separation
(Liquid droplets shape how cells respond to change. Cells form liquid droplets to prevent dysfunctional signaling and deadly diseases)In this article, scientists at the University of California, San...
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The Genetics Behind Pigeon Backflips
Did you know that at least 5 genes are involved in making parlor roller pigeons do backflips?Tumbler pigeons, selectively bred for their tumbling behavior, exhibit intermittent somersaulting episodes...
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Cuckoo Plumage Morphs Giving Them an Edge for Reproduction.
This article discusses the color morphisms seen in female cuckoos. Cuckoo birds are known for their brood parasitic; That is they lay the eggs in the nests of other species of birds and trick those...
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Research Finds Shared DNA Signature of Identical Twins
Identical siblings are used to sharing a lot with their twin, including their DNA. But new research suggests that they also share a distinct marker of their twin status, not encoded within their DNA,...
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Genetic Modification caused by Electric Eels.
Electroporation is a phenomenon where electricity is used to open up small temporary pores within cells. The purpose of this is to deliver medicine, DNA, bacteria or whatever desired substance into...
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Epigenetics and Education
This article on genetics and learning evaluates the connection between genetics and educational attainment. Educational attainment is the highest level of education completed by an individual. The...
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Peculiar Genes: Myostatin Deficiency
Most of us have seen those pictures of extremely muscular cows. While this may appear to be the result of something in the body working too well, its actually the opposite. In their bodies, and in...
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The Black Chafer Beetle Likes to Take Every Other Day Off, Must Be Nice.
Many animals including ourselves follow a 24 hours cycle of gene expression. It aligns with daytime and nighttime cycles and allows most animals to specialize certain tasks at certain times of day;...
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Scientists find chemical that stops locust cannibalism
Locusts are generally solitary creatures. However, when their population density skyrockets due to heavy rainfall and good breeding conditions, followed immediately by an increase in food scarcity, a...
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Redrawing The Tree of Life
In the article called “Huge Genetic Study Redraws The Tree of Life for Flowering Plants”, research has found that the origins of flowering and fruit-bearing plants are most likely all interconnected to...
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Mutation Helps Those at Higher Risk of Dementia avoid Alzheimer's
In a recent article written by Dennis Thompson in the U.S. News and World Report, he describes a genetic mutation that helps to protect people from Alzheimer's even if they carry the gene that...
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Octopuses and Cephalopods Can Edit Their RNA
New research by Joshua Rosenthal and Eli Eisenberg identified that octopuses and other cephalopods adjust to environmental differences like temperatures by editing their RNA. Previous research has...
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Epigenetic Factors in Drosophila are Capable of Causing Cancer Without Any...
You would not be wrong to believe that cancer can be generated from mutations in genes, but it might not be the only way. Researchers have identified another mechanism via epigenetic factors that can...
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Gene Therapy Brings Hope to Children with Congenital Deafness
In a recent article written in U.S. News and World Report, Dennis Thompson describes a recent medical trial conducted on 6 children with congenital deafness in China. In this trial researchers...
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Genetic Risk Factors for Anxiety
This article identifies 2 major indicators of an individual developing anxiety: genetic predisposition and the HPA axis in the brain. The HPA axis consists of the hypothalamus, anterior pituitary, and...
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