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Genetics
Genetics: the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms. It is generally considered a field of biology, but intersects frequently with many other life sciences and is strongly linked with the study of information systems. The father of genetics is Gregor Mendel, a late 19th-century scientist and Augustinian friar. Mendel studied "trait inheritance", patterns in the way traits are handed down from parents to offspring. He observed that organisms (pea plants) inherit traits by way of discrete "units of inheritance". This term, still used today, is a somewhat ambiguous definition of what is referred to as a gene.
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DEC 15, 2024Earth & The Environment
The deepest part of the oceans known as the hadal zone, where there is total darkness and extreme pressure. And some wei ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 11, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Image © S. Ahmerkamp/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology shows a newly found endosymbiontWritten By: Carmen LeitchDEC 10, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Sickle cell disease refers to a group of genetic diseases that impact a protein that ferries oxygen through the blood. T ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 09, 2024Genetics & Genomics
The expression of genes has to be very carefully controlled by cells; serious problems can arise when genes are expresse ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 08, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
A rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) has been approved for the first time by the World Health Organization (WHO ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 03, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is an incredible technique that was developed in the 1980s. It uses radio waves, giant ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 02, 2024Genetics & Genomics
A new study reported in Nutrients has identified some of the potential food triggers of arthritis, while an unrelated st ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 27, 2024Microbiology
Archaea are microorganisms that were only discovered in the 1970s, and about which scientists still have a lot to learn. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 27, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Organisms are made up of cells, and in each of those cells, a genome encodes the instructions for that organism to grow ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 20, 2024Genetics & Genomics
This work can explain why many people who lose weight may fail to maintain that loss over long periods of time...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 20, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit flies, are convenient research tools, and they have many genes in common with humans.Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 19, 2024Microbiology
Oropouche virus (OROV) was first identified in a human patient in 1955 in a fevered charcoal worker on Trinidad, a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 18, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Sometimes there are slightly different versions of genes, such as the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene. The APOE4 variant in ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 17, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Delivering very large genes to cells can pose a serious challenge, so scientists developed a new method.Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 15, 2024Microbiology
There are many processes and proteins that help the body fight a flu infection. One of them is known as IFITM3.Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 15, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
The human genome contains about 20,000 protein-coding genes, but that only accounts for roughly two percent of the genom ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 13, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
Scientists developed a genetic tool that can quickly identify nearly any type of pathogenic infection, including those c ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 12, 2024Genetics & Genomics
There are about 80,000 new cases of bladder cancer every year in the US alone. About one-third of cases are diagnosed at ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 11, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Gout causes sudden flares of joint pain, which often arise during the nighttime, and in the big toe, though it may affec ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 10, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
The world is full of unusual unicellular organisms and microbes, many of which have not been discovered yet...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 10, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
The FDA has a site where people can check the expiration dates, and potential extensions on those dates, for at-home COV ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 07, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Can small circles of DNA, once dismissed as irrelevant, actually be major contributors to cancer development? Three new ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 06, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
After a decade of work, scientists have completed a molecular model of the human spliceosome, an incredibly complex cell ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 04, 2024Genetics & Genomics
In cells, there is a careful coordination of activity among molecules. Genes have to be expressed in the right cells at ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
DEC 15, 2024
Earth & The Environment
The deepest part of the oceans known as the hadal zone, where there is total darkness and extreme pressure. And some wei
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 11, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Image © S. Ahmerkamp/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology shows a newly found endosymbiont
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 10, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Sickle cell disease refers to a group of genetic diseases that impact a protein that ferries oxygen through the blood. T
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 09, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
The expression of genes has to be very carefully controlled by cells; serious problems can arise when genes are expresse
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 08, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
A rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) has been approved for the first time by the World Health Organization (WHO
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 03, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is an incredible technique that was developed in the 1980s. It uses radio waves, giant
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 02, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
A new study reported in Nutrients has identified some of the potential food triggers of arthritis, while an unrelated st
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 27, 2024
Microbiology
Archaea are microorganisms that were only discovered in the 1970s, and about which scientists still have a lot to learn.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 27, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Organisms are made up of cells, and in each of those cells, a genome encodes the instructions for that organism to grow
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 20, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
This work can explain why many people who lose weight may fail to maintain that loss over long periods of time...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 20, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit flies, are convenient research tools, and they have many genes in common with humans.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 19, 2024
Microbiology
Oropouche virus (OROV) was first identified in a human patient in 1955 in a fevered charcoal worker on Trinidad, a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 18, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Sometimes there are slightly different versions of genes, such as the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene. The APOE4 variant in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 17, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Delivering very large genes to cells can pose a serious challenge, so scientists developed a new method.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 15, 2024
Microbiology
There are many processes and proteins that help the body fight a flu infection. One of them is known as IFITM3.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 15, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
The human genome contains about 20,000 protein-coding genes, but that only accounts for roughly two percent of the genom
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 13, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
Scientists developed a genetic tool that can quickly identify nearly any type of pathogenic infection, including those c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 12, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
There are about 80,000 new cases of bladder cancer every year in the US alone. About one-third of cases are diagnosed at
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 11, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Gout causes sudden flares of joint pain, which often arise during the nighttime, and in the big toe, though it may affec
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 10, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
The world is full of unusual unicellular organisms and microbes, many of which have not been discovered yet...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 10, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
The FDA has a site where people can check the expiration dates, and potential extensions on those dates, for at-home COV
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 07, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Can small circles of DNA, once dismissed as irrelevant, actually be major contributors to cancer development? Three new
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 06, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
After a decade of work, scientists have completed a molecular model of the human spliceosome, an incredibly complex cell
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 04, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
In cells, there is a careful coordination of activity among molecules. Genes have to be expressed in the right cells at
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch