News tagged with genetic composition

Deep sequencing reveals undeclared, potentially toxic ingredients within 15 samples of traditional Chinese medicines

Researchers at Murdoch University have used new DNA sequencing technology to reveal the animal and plant composition of traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs). Some of the TCM samples tested contained potentially ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Artificial comet contains building blocks of life

The first molecules of life form naturally in comets, reveals a French-German study led by Uwe Meierhenrich and Cornelia Meinert at the Institut de Chimie de Nice and by Louis Le Sergeant d'Hendecourt at the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Genes in place: New research shows location matters for evolution

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new paper by researchers at the New England Complex Systems Institute reveals the limitations of evolutionary studies that ignore geography. They show that how individuals are arranged in space, and the ...

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Meteorites: Tool kits for creating life on Earth

Meteorites hold a record of the chemicals that existed in the early Solar System and that may have been a crucial source of the organic compounds that gave rise to life on Earth. Since the 1960s, scientists have been trying ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Changing the course of nature: Are fisheries directing the evolution of fish populations?

For many of the types of fish we buy in stores or order in restaurants, the chance that an individual dies from fishing is several times higher than dying of natural causes. This may seem obvious to most (they had to get ...

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers find snippet of RNA that helps make individuals remarkably alike

"No two people are alike." Yet when we consider the thousands of genes with frequent differences in genetic composition among different people, it is remarkable how much alike we are.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Food security: It starts with seed

With each passing year, the human population of our planet continues to expand. This growth has created a wide ranging strain on our water and soil resources, as well as our environment, creating an unprecedented urgency ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0