Virology: A marker for a cancer-causing virus
(Phys.org)—Depending on the strain, or genotype, of the human papillomavirus (HPV) (see image), the lesions it causes can range from relatively benign to cancer-causing. Differentiating between lesions ...
Feb 13, 2013
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Evaluating evolutionary rates could shed light into functions of uncharacterized genes
Genes that have roles in the same biological pathways change their rate of evolution in parallel, a finding that could be used to discover their functions, said a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine ...
Feb 08, 2013
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Professor uses evolution, informatics to uncover secrets of the genome
Scientists develop Atlantic fish DNA database with possible conservation and seafood fraud implications
Understanding microbes blowing in the wind
Researchers use DNA to make crystals that can switch configurations
(Phys.org)—Beyond serving as the backbone of modern biology, DNA has come to be a molecule of great interest to engineers. That a DNA sequence will naturally bind only with a complementary sequence could make it part of ...
Feb 04, 2013
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Sequencing hundreds of chloroplast genomes now possible
Researchers at the University of Florida and Oberlin College have developed a sequencing method that will allow potentially hundreds of plant chloroplast genomes to be sequenced at once, facilitating studies of molecular ...
Jan 31, 2013
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Identifying all factors modulating gene expression is actually possible
It was in trying to answer a question related to the functioning of our biological clock that a team lead by Ueli Schibler, a professor at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, has developed a method whose applications ...
Jan 31, 2013
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Process that controls tomato ripening discovered
(Phys.org)—Everyone loves a juicy, perfectly ripened tomato, and scientists have long sought ways to control the ripening process to improve fruit quality and prevent spoilage.
Jan 30, 2013
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Researchers make DNA storage a reality
Researchers at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have created a way to store data in the form of DNA – a material that lasts for tens of thousands of years. The new method, published ...
Jan 23, 2013
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A new future for an old crop: Barley enters the genomics age
A Japanese team led by Kazuhiro Sato of Okayama University participates in the International Barley Sequencing Consortium (IBSC) to produce a high resolution assembly of the majority of barley genes.
Jan 23, 2013
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Scientists shed light on the 'dark matter' of DNA
In each cell, thousands of regulatory regions control which genes are active at any time. Scientists at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna have developed a method that reliably ...
Jan 18, 2013
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New key to organism complexity identified: Critical transcription factor co-exists in two distinct states
Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers have discovered that the transcription factor protein TFIID coexists in two distinct structural states, a key to genetic expression and TFIID's ability to initiate ...
Jan 17, 2013
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Learning the alphabet of gene control
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have made a large step towards the understanding of how human genes are regulated. In a new study, published in the journal Cell, they identified the DNA sequences that bind t ...
Jan 17, 2013
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