Genetics

Lung cancer genetics

Genetics links. (Free subscription) | yesterday

Quite an interesting story .

Study Says Knockouts in Human Cells Point to Pathogenic Targets

Medindia Health News (Free subscription) | yesterday

A new type of genetic screen for human cells to pinpoint specific genes and proteins used by pathogens has been develope

Rambling around Liverpool with some Penguins

Rambles from my Chair (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009

On Wednesday we had two hours of fair weather in between all the rain and I managed to spend those two hours around Liverpool. I had hardly gone a few yards before tripping over a penguin. “Go Penguins” is a public art explosion of unrivalled proportions. Over 200 individual works of art will adorn and animate Merseyside’s streets throughout Christmas and New Year, bringing a very...

New IZA Paper: What Can We Learn From Molecular Genetics

Geary Behaviour Centre (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

Nature, Nurture and Egalitarian Policy: What Can We Learn from Molecular Genetics? by Petter Lundborg, Anders Stenberg (November 2009) Abstract: This brief paper draws attention to molecular genetic research which may provide a new dimension to our understanding of how socioeconomic outcomes are generated. In particular, we provide an overview of the recently emerging evidence of gene-environment interaction...

Knockouts in human cells point to pathogenic targets

Biosingularity (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

Whitehead researchers have developed a new type of genetic screen for human cells to pinpoint specific genes and proteins used by pathogens, according to their paper in Science. In most human cell cultures genes are present in two copies: one inherited from the father and one from the mother. Gene inactivation by mutation is therefore inefficient because [...]

• Knockouts in human cells point to pathogenic targets - Life Science World

Exploring How Identical Twins Can Have Different Sexual Orientations

Library Grape (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

This video ( highlighted by Sully ) is a fascinating piece by National Geographic that explores the possible explanations for why one identical twin can turn out straight while the other turns out gay: One thing that irks me about the start of the piece is how it refers to the " controversial question " of " Are people born gay? ". I suppose that it's accurate to describe it as...

Study Highlights Potential Of New Technique To Determine The Gender Of Very Young Birds

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

A novel approach to classify the gender of six-week-old turkey poults could save millions of male chicks from being killed shortly after birth, according to Dr. Gerald Steiner from the Dresden University of Technology in Germany and his team. Their use of infrared spectroscopy to determine the gender of young birds shows that it is a fast and accurate method with the potential to be used by the breeding...

• Sexing Turkeys with Spectroscopy - A DC Birding Blog

Insect Resistance To Bt Crops Can Be Predicted, Monitored, And Managed

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

Since 1996, crop plants genetically modified to produce bacterial proteins that are toxic to certain insects, yet safe for people, have been planted on more than 200 million hectares worldwide. The popularity of these Bt crops, named after the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, comes from their ability to kill some major pests, allowing farmers to save money and lessen environmental impacts by reducing...

Gobble

fivethirtyeight (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Let's have some Turkey Day fun. OK, first, I recommend the timely analysis by Political Calculations, which has tracked domestic turkey production over the past 20 years. Below is a figure they generated from the National Turkey Federation: According to this site , annual turkey consumption per capita of about 18 pounds has been relatively steady, but still dwarfs how...

Letters: Holding the police to account

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

Alan Johnson refers to the case of Sean Hodgson as someone wrongly convicted who would "probably not have been cleared without DNA analysis" ( My DNA dilemma , 25 November). This may well be true, but it has nothing to do with the debate over DNA retention. Hodgson wasn't cleared because the police had been storing the DNA of large numbers of innocent people. He was cleared because he insisted...

Turkey genetics

Genetics links. (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009

I would not mind eating it.

Enjoying Your Hearty Breakfast ?

Islington Newmania (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009

Its all a matter of perceptive isn’t it .I have been reading articles making this and that case for so long now, that the whole process is starting to be “Frightened out of its sense”...or deconstructed, as New-Labour wish Shakespeare had put it . Yesterday I noticed Alan Johnson arguing for his DNA a bank on the basis that people didn’t like finger prints once , yes that’s...

Plasma Levels Of GGT And ALB And Their Genetic Correlations With Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009

Two indicators of liver function - glutamyl transferase (GGT) and albumin (ALB) - have been implicated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. It is known that the variation in the plasma level of these liver related proteins is genetically influenced.

• Plasma Levels Of GGT And ALB And Their Genetic Correlations With Cardiovascular Risk Factors - Red Orbit
• Plasma levels of GGT and ALB and their genetic correlations with cardiovascular risk factors - Physorg

Protein Motor In Action Captured By Atomic-Level Snapshot

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009

The atomic-level action of a remarkable class of ring-shaped protein motors has been uncovered by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) using a state-of-the-art protein crystallography beamline at the Advanced Light Source (ALS).

Gene Increases Effectiveness Of Drugs Used To Fight Cancer And Allows Reduction In Dosage

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009

Researchers at the University of Granada have found a suicide gene, called 'gene E', which leads to the death of tumour cells derived from breast, lung and colon cancer, and prevents their growth. The importance of this new gene is that its use to fight cancer can reduce the potent drugs that are currently used, so that could mean more effective treatment for cancer.

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