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Gene: is a sequence of nucleotides in DNA or RNA that codes for a molecule that has a function. During gene expression, the DNA is first copied into RNA. The RNA can be directly functional or be the intermediate template for a protein that performs a function.
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APR 02, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Cancer-fighting pink pineapples, heart-healthy purple tomatoes and less fatty vegetable oils may someday be on grocery s ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 02, 2015Genetics & Genomics
As a patient prepares to become the first in history to receive his own genetically engineered stem cells for sickle cel ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 02, 2015Cancer
In the 1970s, epidemiologists found that workers in factories using vinyl chloride, the key ingredient for PVC plastics, ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 01, 2015Neuroscience
Researchers have found that male mice trill startlingly intricate songs to beguile female mice-in much the same way as b ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 01, 2015Neuroscience
Complex brain disorders, such as autism or schizophrenia, still puzzle scientists because their causes lie hidden in ear ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 01, 2015Cancer
A drug used for decades to treat leukemia may have other uses in the fight against cancer, researchers at the University ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 30, 2015Neuroscience
New research has identified some of the processes by which molecules associated with neurological diseases can disrupt t ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 30, 2015Cancer
Nearly 50 years after the "war on cancer" was declared in the United States, precision medicine presages an era of incre ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 27, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Traditionally, to understand how a gene functions, a scientist would breed an organism that lacks that gene - "knocking ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 27, 2015Immunology
It was a puzzling case. The 2.5-year-old French girl had been healthy, but in 2011 she had to be hospitalized because sh ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 27, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Using a novel approach that homes in on rare families severely affected by autism, a Johns Hopkins-led team of researche ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 27, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Eighteen piglets born recently are the result of two years of intense research by scientists in the College of Agricultu ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 26, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania describe the first set of genes importa ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 26, 2015Health & Medicine
Diets come and go, and the news is constantly filled with the findings and opinions about what is good for you and what ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 26, 2015Neuroscience
By examining more than 3,600 postmortem brains, researchers at Mayo Clinic's campuses in Jacksonville, Florida, and Roch ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 26, 2015Immunology
Antibiotic resistance is on its way to spreading around the world among bacteria that are often involved in respiratory ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 26, 2015Genetics & Genomics
deCODE genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland, a global leader in analyzing and understanding the human genome and wholly-owned su ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 26, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Just as two DNA strands naturally arrange themselves into a helix, DNA's molecular cousin RNA can form hairpin-like loop ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 25, 2015Genetics & Genomics
In the four decades since Stanford's Gerald Reaven, MD, helped demonstrate that insulin resistance can lead to type 2 di ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 25, 2015Cancer
Colon cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. In spite of research into the genetic muta ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 24, 2015Earth & The Environment
Many strange creatures live in the deep sea, but few are odder than archaea, primitive single-celled bacteria-like micro ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 23, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Scientists at Harvard University are one step closer to bringing Woolly mammoths back to life, after successfully insert ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 23, 2015Microbiology
to exclude other, more plausible alternatives, and I just do not think they have done that."Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 23, 2015Cancer
Deadly familial stomach and lobular breast cancers could be successfully treated at their earliest stages, or even preve ...Written By: Ilene Schneider
APR 02, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Cancer-fighting pink pineapples, heart-healthy purple tomatoes and less fatty vegetable oils may someday be on grocery s
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 02, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
As a patient prepares to become the first in history to receive his own genetically engineered stem cells for sickle cel
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 02, 2015
Cancer
In the 1970s, epidemiologists found that workers in factories using vinyl chloride, the key ingredient for PVC plastics,
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 01, 2015
Neuroscience
Researchers have found that male mice trill startlingly intricate songs to beguile female mice-in much the same way as b
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 01, 2015
Neuroscience
Complex brain disorders, such as autism or schizophrenia, still puzzle scientists because their causes lie hidden in ear
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 01, 2015
Cancer
A drug used for decades to treat leukemia may have other uses in the fight against cancer, researchers at the University
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 30, 2015
Neuroscience
New research has identified some of the processes by which molecules associated with neurological diseases can disrupt t
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 30, 2015
Cancer
Nearly 50 years after the "war on cancer" was declared in the United States, precision medicine presages an era of incre
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 27, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Traditionally, to understand how a gene functions, a scientist would breed an organism that lacks that gene - "knocking
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 27, 2015
Immunology
It was a puzzling case. The 2.5-year-old French girl had been healthy, but in 2011 she had to be hospitalized because sh
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 27, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Using a novel approach that homes in on rare families severely affected by autism, a Johns Hopkins-led team of researche
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 27, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Eighteen piglets born recently are the result of two years of intense research by scientists in the College of Agricultu
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 26, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania describe the first set of genes importa
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 26, 2015
Health & Medicine
Diets come and go, and the news is constantly filled with the findings and opinions about what is good for you and what
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 26, 2015
Neuroscience
By examining more than 3,600 postmortem brains, researchers at Mayo Clinic's campuses in Jacksonville, Florida, and Roch
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 26, 2015
Immunology
Antibiotic resistance is on its way to spreading around the world among bacteria that are often involved in respiratory
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 26, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
deCODE genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland, a global leader in analyzing and understanding the human genome and wholly-owned su
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 26, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Just as two DNA strands naturally arrange themselves into a helix, DNA's molecular cousin RNA can form hairpin-like loop
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 25, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
In the four decades since Stanford's Gerald Reaven, MD, helped demonstrate that insulin resistance can lead to type 2 di
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 25, 2015
Cancer
Colon cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. In spite of research into the genetic muta
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 24, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Many strange creatures live in the deep sea, but few are odder than archaea, primitive single-celled bacteria-like micro
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 23, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists at Harvard University are one step closer to bringing Woolly mammoths back to life, after successfully insert
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 23, 2015
Microbiology
to exclude other, more plausible alternatives, and I just do not think they have done that."
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 23, 2015
Cancer
Deadly familial stomach and lobular breast cancers could be successfully treated at their earliest stages, or even preve
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider