News tagged with artificial genes

Resequencing 50 accessions of rice cast new light on molecular breeding

BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, announced that a study on resequencing 50 accessions of cultivated and wild rice was published online today in Nature Biotechnology. The study provides one of the largest genome ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Early agricultural piracy informs the domestication of rice

The origins of rice have been cast in a new light by research publishing in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics on June 9, 2011. By reconciling two theories, the authors show that the domestication of rice occurred at lea ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists construct synthetic proteins that sustain life

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a groundbreaking achievement that could help scientists "build" new biological systems, Princeton University scientists have constructed for the first time artificial proteins that enable ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 06, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Artificial light at night disrupts cell division

Just one "pulse" of artificial light at night disrupts circadian cell division, reveals a new study carried out by Dr. Rachel Ben-Shlomo of the University of Haifa-Oranim Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Scientists identify DNA that regulates antibody production

(PhysOrg.com) -- When foreign invaders trip the immune system’s alarm, antibodies need to be specially sculpted to attack them head on. New research now shows that gene segments called enhancers control the reshuffling of ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0