Items tagged with genetic

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Cancer-Causing Genes Removed from Stem Cells Friday, March 6th, 2009 - 12:25:46 - Anuradha Menon Whitehead Institute researchers have developed a novel method of removing potential cancer-causing genes during the reprogramming of skin cells from... read more

Researchers Crack the Common Cold Code Friday, February 13th, 2009 - 12:19:48 - Anuradha Menon Scientists have begun to solve some of the mysteries of the common cold by putting together the pieces of the genetic codes for all the known strains... read more

Microbe Survives in Ocean's Deepest Realm Saturday, February 7th, 2009 - 14:33:29 - Anuradha Menon The genome of a marine bacterium living 2,500 meters below the ocean's surface is providing clues to how life adapts in extreme environments... read more

Reprogram Stem Cells into Eggs and Sperm Thursday, January 29th, 2009 - 18:25:48 - Anuradha Menon For the first time, UCLA researchers have reprogrammed human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into the cells that eventually become eggs and... read more

Engineering Plants to Produce New Compounds Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 - 10:34:59 - Anuradha Menon In work that could expand the frontiers of genetic engineering, MIT chemists have, for the first time, genetically altered a plant to produce... read more

Modeling Genomic Erosion Friday, January 16th, 2009 - 12:17:06 - Anuradha Menon Even though scientists have successfully sequenced the human genome, still lack a clear picture of exactly how coding and non-coding DNA sequences... read more

Reversing the Conventional DNA Wisdom Friday, December 5th, 2008 - 12:33:49 - Anuradha Menon The copying of DNA's master instructions into messenger molecules of RNA, a process known as DNA transcription, has always been thought to be a... read more

Genome's 'Dark Matter' Almost Recognized Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 - 17:56:07 - Ehud Rattner An almost complete catalog of human genetic variation will be available by the end of 2009, thanks to a massive genome sequencing project that... read more

Evolutionary Legacy: Genetic-based Diseases Sunday, October 19th, 2008 - 12:08:04 - Ehud Rattner Tomislav Domazet-Loso and Diethard Tautz from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plon, Germany, have systematically analyzed the... read more

AAT Protein Aids Type 1 Diabetes Patients Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 - 10:32:25 - Anuradha Menon A protein made by the liver in response to inflammation and used to treat patients suffering from a genetic form of emphysema has been shown to... read more

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