News tagged with reporter gene

Of yeast and men: Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of Friedreich's ataxia

Researchers in human genetics have long known that expansions of GAA repeats - resulting in this nucleotide triplet repeating hundreds or thousands of times - cause the most common hereditary neurological disorder known as ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New genetic tool helps improve rice

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have developed a new tool for improving the expression of desirable genes in rice in parts of the plant where the results will do the most good.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1