News tagged with detoxification genes

Poison: It's what's for dinner

As the U.S. Southwest grew warmer from 18,700 to 10,000 years ago, juniper trees vanished from what is now the Mojave Desert, robbing packrats of their favorite food. Now, University of Utah biologists have ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2




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Defending against chemical acts of terrorism

Researchers may have found a way to protect us against otherwise deadly chemical attacks, such as the subway sarin incident in Tokyo that left thirteen people dead and thousands more injured or with temporary vision problems. ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover cellular system for detecting and responding to poisons and pathogens

Two Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-based research teams, along with a group from the University of California at San Diego, have discovered that animals have a previously unknown system for detecting and responding ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Same samples, different analytical strategies, complementary inferences

(Phys.org) -- The results of two separate but complementary analyses on 400 samples of Hanford Site groundwater appeared together in the journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology. The studies ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Corn gene helps fight Multiple Leaf Diseases

(PhysOrg.com) -- A specific gene in corn seems to confer resistance to three important leaf diseases, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their university colleagues.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using plants to silence insect genes in a high-throughput manner

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, are now using a procedure which brings forward ecological research on insects: They study gene functions in moth larvae by manipulating ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Big pest, small genome: Blueprint of spider mite may yield better pesticides

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team decoded the genetic blueprint of the two-spotted spider mite, raising hope for new ways to attack the major pest, which resists pesticides and destroys crops ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Growing without cell division

An international team of scientists, including biologists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, may have pinpointed for the first time the mechanism responsible for cell polyploidy, a state ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Bed bug insecticide resistance mechanisms identified

Bed bugs, largely absent in the U.S. since the 1950s, have returned with a hungry vengeance in the last decade in all 50 states. These insects have developed resistance to pyrethroids, one of the very few ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Research offers means to detoxify mycotoxin-contaminated grain intended for ethanol, animal feed

Using barley as the raw material for ethanol production results in an additional product – dried grains for animal feed. But the presence of a fungal pathogen sometimes found in barley can result in a lethal toxin, called ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research provides new information about malaria mosquito's circadian rhythms

A new study by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers offers a wealth of information about the rhythmic nature of gene expression in Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito species that transmits the malari ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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