Unraveling of 58-year-old corn gene mystery may have plant-breeding implications
Credit: Surinder Chopra Research Group/Penn State In discovering a mutant gene that "turns on" another gene responsible for the red ...
Tag: Genes
Wired for obesity
Scientists are piecing together how genes involved in neural development can affect body weightCredit: Dr. Sebastien Bouret, CHLA Leading a ...
New study identifies specific obesity-related risk factors for kidney cancer
Credit: Courtesy Spectrum Health GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A new study confirms the long-suspected role of obesity as a risk ...
Whole genome sequencing method may speed personalized treatment of drug-resistant infections
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have added to evidence that rapid resistance gene sequencing technology can accurately speed ...
Molecules of GM food can accumulate in human digestive tract and enter cells of body
In the review, scientists examine the ways and mechanisms by which foreign DNA can survive during digestion and penetrate into ...
Proteins use a lock and key system to bind to DNA
New study challenges a fundamental assumption of how proteins interact with the human genome SAN FRANCISCO, CA--January 16, 2019--You can ...
Chaos in the body tunes up your immune system
Chaos in bodily regulation can optimize our immune system according to a recent discovery made by researchers at the University ...
Study of mutation order may change understanding of how tumors develop
Cancer Cell paper envisions new direction in cancer research Cancers most commonly arise because of a series of two to ...
Gene expression study sheds new light on African Salmonella
Credit: Jay Hinton group, University of Liverpool Scientists at the University of Liverpool have taken another step forward in understanding ...
More accurate leukemia diagnosis expected as researchers refine leukemia classification
Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital means more than 90 percent of the most common cases of childhood ...
Scientists identify gene contributing to prostate cancer drug resistance
The GREB1 gene promotes resistance to prostate cancer treatments, making it a potential target for future therapies Researchers have discovered ...
Gene-editing tool CRISPR repurposed to develop better antibiotics
MADISON, Wis. -- A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher and his collaborators at the University of California, San Francisco have repurposed ...
A new mechanism helps explain differences between eukaryotic and bacterial proteomes
Credit: Molecular Biology and Evolution What makes distinct species have different proteins? Is there a key that allows eukaryotic cells ...
Research to advance cancer therapy
New Orleans, LA - Research led by Suresh Alahari, PhD, the Fred Brazda Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at ...