News tagged with genetic clock

A Biological Basis for the 8-Hour Workday? Researchers uncover 8- and 12-hour Cycles of Gene Activity

(PhysOrg.com) -- The circadian clock coordinates physiological and behavioral processes on a 24-hour rhythm, allowing animals to anticipate changes in their environment and prepare accordingly. Scientists ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Rare disease reveals new path for creating stem cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- As debilitating as disease can be, sometimes it acts as a teacher. Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine have found that by mimicking a rare genetic ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover compound with potent effects on the biological clock

Using automated screening techniques developed by pharmaceutical companies to find new drugs, researchers from UC San Diego and three other research institutions have discovered a molecule with the most potent effects ever ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Biological clock' could be a key to better health, longer life

If you aren't getting a good, consistent and regular night's sleep, a new study suggests it could reduce your ability to handle oxidative stress, cause impacts to your health, increase motor and neurological ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Earth history and evolution

In classical mythology, the cypress tree is associated with death, the underworld and eternity. Indeed, the family to which cypresses belong, is an ancient lineage of conifers, and a new study of their evolution affords a ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Biologists Discover Missing Piece of Plant Clock

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have identified a key protein that links the morning and evening components of the daily biological clock of plants.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Plants use circadian rhythms to prepare for battle with insects

In a study of the molecular underpinnings of plants' pest resistance, Rice University biologists have shown that plants both anticipate daytime raids by hungry insects and make sophisticated preparations to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers synchronize blinking 'genetic clocks' (w/ Video)

Researchers at UC San Diego who last year genetically engineered bacteria to keep track of time by turning on and off fluorescent proteins within their cells have taken another step toward the construction ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Newly discovered molecule essential to resetting 'body clocks'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research has shown that light is the key to getting our 'body clocks' back in sync and now a new study exploring the resynchronisation mechanism in insects has discovered a molecule essential ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study reveals new data on circadian rhythms

Fluctuations in light intensity allow restoring the regularity of circadian rhythms. This is the main conclusion of the work carried out by Javier Buceta, group leader of The SiMBioSys Group (Theoretical and In Silico Modelling ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Gene variation that lets people get by on fewer zees transferred to create insomniac mice

A University of Utah sleep expert has joined with researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Stanford University to identify a genetic variation in humans, which the scientists also developed in ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Genetic basis for migration

Scientists studying Eastern North American monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) have uncovered a suite of genes that may be involved in driving the butterflies to migrate towards Mexico for the winter. Their research, publis ...

Biology / Evolution

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0