Shade-coffee Farms Help Maintain Tropical Genetic Diversity redOrbit | Shade-grown coffee farms support native bees that help maintain the health of some of the world's most biodiverse tropical regions, according to a study by a University of Michigan biologist and a colleague at the University of California, Berkeley. | The study suggests that by pollinating native ...
Researchers identify key enzyme in DNA repair pathway PhysOrg | Researchers have discovered an enzyme crucial to a type of DNA repair that also causes resistance to a class of cancer drugs most commonly used against ovarian cancer. | Scientists from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Life...
Researchers find new translocation; weak spots in DNA lead to genetic disease PhysOrg | A genetics research team based at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia continues to discover recurrent translocations—places in which two chromosomes exchange pieces of themselves. As many as 1 in 600 persons carry balanced chromosome translocat...
Next generation sequencing establishes genetic link between two rare diseases PhysOrg | Scientists have successfully used "next generation sequencing" to identify mutations that may cause a rare and mysterious genetic disorder. The research, published by Cell Press on July 29th in the American Journal of Human Genetics, demonstrates t...
Personal DNA gene tests are bogus Newsvine | — Looks like spitomics finally got its comeuppance. | That’s what I call the growing and lucrative field of personalized genetic testing, which asks you to spit into a pl...
Gene May Hold Key to Reducing Spread of Oral Cancers PhysOrg | (PhysOrg.com) -- The spread of cancer cells in the tongue may be reduced if a gene that regulates cancer cell migration can be controlled, according to new research at the Univer...
Gene Protects Memory in Alzheimer's Study Wall Street Journal By GAUTAM NAIK | Scientists have found a way to dramatically reduce the erosion of memory and learning ability in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, potentially offering a new a...
GAO investigators say DNA tests give bogus results Philadelphia Daily News | MATTHEW PERRONE | The Associated Press | WASHINGTON - A government investigator told members of Congress on Thursday that personalized DNA tests claiming to predict certain inher...
Gene linked to aging also linked to Alzheimer's PhysOrg | MIT biologists report that they have discovered the first link between the amyloid plaques that form in the brains of Alzheimer's patients and a gene previously implicated in the...
Scientists discover new genetic marker of ovarian cancer risk PhysOrg | A team of Yale researchers have identified a genetic marker that can help predict the risk of developing ovarian cancer, a hard to detect and often deadly form of cancer. | Repor...
Omega imbalance can make obesity inheritable The Times Of India Overeating combined with the wrong mix of fats in one's diet can cause obesity to be carried over from one generation to the next, researchers in France reported. | Omega-6 and ome...
Testing for Lung Cancer Genes The New York Times | Many people who never smoked or lived or worked with smokers still get lung cancer, explains Jane Brody in her recent Personal Health column. And “recent discoveries of unu...
Louisiana biologist sees future in shrimp crawfish Herald Tribune | NEW ORLEANS - Way down South, where football and food are close to religions, tailgate parties could turn into crawfish boils a few autumns from now... (photo: Public Domain / )
Khmer Rouge Figure Is Found Guilty of War Crimes The New York Times | PHNOM PENH , Cambodia — A United Nations-backed court found the commandant of the central Khmer Rouge prison and torture house guilty on Monda... (photo: AP)
Shade-coffee Farms Help Maintain Tropical Genetic Diversity redOrbit | Shade-grown coffee farms support native bees that help maintain the health of some of the world's most biodiverse tropical regions, according to a s... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
UAE among top 20 medical tourism destinations Khaleej Times DUBAI - The UAE is among the world's top 20 destinations for medical tourism, according to a health tourism survey that has also revealed that the ind... (photo: Creative Commons / LoverOfDubai)
