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DNA: deoxyribonucleic acid is a molecule that carries the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses. DNA and ribonucleic acid (RNA) are nucleic acids; alongside proteins, lipids and complex carbohydrates (polysaccharides), they are one of the four major types of macromolecules that are essential for all known forms of life. Most DNA molecules consist of two biopolymer strands coiled around each other to form a double helix.
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NOV 10, 2016Videos
Hollywood TV crime shows are notorious for oversimplifying the arduous, complicated tasks of real DNA investigation. In ...NOV 10, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
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"If you have a damaged cell, you don't want it to replicate," explained computational biophysicist Rommie ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 25, 2016Videos
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Epigenetics - the study of how genetic modifications, instead of the genetic code itself, affects the expression of gene ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 14, 2016Microbiology
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Enhancing a cancer patient’s own T cells to reduce tumor growth is an up-and-coming cancer therapy that is being u ...Written By: Kara MarkerOCT 12, 2016Health & Medicine
The adaptive bacterial immune system known as CRISPR has taken biomedicine by storm in the years following its discovery ...Written By: Kara MarkerOCT 12, 2016Plants & Animals
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A recent study showed that over eighty thousand gene enhancers are associated with human heart development and function. ...Written By: Kara MarkerOCT 11, 2016Plants & Animals
Three researchers led by Chao Huang recently scored big when they together visited a Chinese pet store in search of inte ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 10, 2016Immunology
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Scientists have created a portable way to make pharmaceuticals by using freeze-dried components that can make complex co ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 07, 2016Cancer
If you could microscopically dissect a tumor, you’d find a diverse collection of cells. While all the cells have g ...
NOV 10, 2016
Videos
Hollywood TV crime shows are notorious for oversimplifying the arduous, complicated tasks of real DNA investigation. In
...
NOV 10, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory hope to squash any preconceived notions that the occasional cigarette
...
NOV 09, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
A new report in Nature has shed some light on the process of necroptosis, a type of programmed cell death that is regula
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 09, 2016
Neuroscience
Research into the causes and possible treatments for autism is at the forefront of neuroscience. With numbers like 1 in
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 08, 2016
Microbiology
Your doctor thinks you may have sepsis - a condition where your body temperature shifts, and your heart and respiratory
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
NOV 03, 2016
Cardiology
Risk factors leading to cardiovascular disease are often thought to be obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, and environmental
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 02, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
While interactions of biological molecules have been studied in depth. that work has not usually been done in the typica
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 02, 2016
Cancer
Increasingly, doctors are recognizing the impact of genetic differences on disease and treatment outcomes. This realizat
...
NOV 01, 2016
Videos
We need no formal reminder of the inevitable ageing process - a quick glance at the skin of a young child and the skin o
...
NOV 01, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cells are divided into organelles that help accomplish all of the various tasks of a cell. One organelle, the mitochondr
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 31, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A trio of astronauts from the International Space Station have landed back on Earth safely this past weekend after a 115
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 29, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
"If you have a damaged cell, you don't want it to replicate," explained computational biophysicist Rommie
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 25, 2016
Videos
What, exactly, is albinism? Albinism is a collective term for many loosely related conditions. Everyone with albinism ma
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 22, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Modifications to DNA and RNA can exert a powerful influence on gene expression. The most modification to RNA, the interm
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 21, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Epigenetics - the study of how genetic modifications, instead of the genetic code itself, affects the expression of gene
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 14, 2016
Microbiology
Viruses and spider toxin? Sounds like a superhero’s origin story. Not quite. Researchers from Vanderbilt Universit
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
OCT 14, 2016
Immunology
Enhancing a cancer patient’s own T cells to reduce tumor growth is an up-and-coming cancer therapy that is being u
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 12, 2016
Health & Medicine
The adaptive bacterial immune system known as CRISPR has taken biomedicine by storm in the years following its discovery
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 12, 2016
Plants & Animals
Throughout Cuba, the Cuban Crocodile can be found, but it’s not something you get to see all too often, as only a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 11, 2016
Cardiology
A recent study showed that over eighty thousand gene enhancers are associated with human heart development and function.
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 11, 2016
Plants & Animals
Three researchers led by Chao Huang recently scored big when they together visited a Chinese pet store in search of inte
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 10, 2016
Immunology
One small change in the chromosomes of B lymphocytes, and the immune cells cannot proliferate and create antibodies to f
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 08, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have created a portable way to make pharmaceuticals by using freeze-dried components that can make complex co
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 07, 2016
Cancer
If you could microscopically dissect a tumor, you’d find a diverse collection of cells. While all the cells have g
...