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Reporter genes
Reporter genes are an integral component of molecular biology used to study biological pathways and processes. Reporter genes are attached to a known sequence of another gene of interest in an organism, such as a bacteria, cell, or plant. Attachment of a reporter gene allows visualization or quantification of a gene of interest. Common reporter systems used on molecular biology include luciferase and green fluorescent protein (GFP).
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AUG 28, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Glucocorticoids are steroidal hormones that signal through the glucorticoid receptor in complex ways throughout the body
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 26, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Microcephaly is a rare developmental defect that causes an infant’s head to be smaller than normal at birth. While
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 23, 2016
Cancer
Blue and green eyes are exotic and beautiful, but researchers are finding that there’s a price attached to these c
...
AUG 22, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
A research team led by Christopher J. Lengner of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and Brad J
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 22, 2016
Cancer
Just because a chemotherapeutic drug exist does not mean it will work for every patient. There has been no other time wh
...
AUG 21, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have identified a new genetic mutation in a patient that presented with a prev
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 19, 2016
Health & Medicine
Back in December, I wrote an article titled "Being 'Lean and Unfit' is Better Than Being 'Fat and Fit&r
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
AUG 17, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Just a couple of miles down the road from North Carolina State University where CRISPR pioneer Rodolphe Barrangou, PhD,
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 17, 2016
Videos
Vibrio cholerae bacteria will fire toxins off when confronted with encroaching neighbors on crab shells. The process see
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 15, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
LA JOLLA, CA—August 15, 2015—Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have taken a big step towar
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
AUG 02, 2016
Microbiology
Commensal bacteria, the normal flora in the digestive tract, have a multitude of functions and are critical to health. O
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 25, 2016
Videos
Chinese scientists hope to soon be the first to use the CRISPR gene editing technique on human patients. They aim to hel
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 19, 2016
Health & Medicine
Moms who eat high-fat, high-sugar diets may be putting future generations at risk for metabolic problems, even when thei
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JUL 19, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
In a report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers working at Florida State Unive
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 17, 2016
Microbiology
Researchers can stimulate fungi to produce antimicrobial compounds, and in doing so they have detected a novel one. The
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 14, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Replication, transcription, and translation, the pedestals of genetics, occur in synchrony. The unique machinery of each
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 09, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) was initially characterized as one which mediates the effects of the pollutant dioxi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 08, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
While most bacteria is harmless, some have evolved into pathogens, which have various ways of causing infectious disease
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 07, 2016
Cancer
When the Human Genome Project was completed in April 2003, scientists around the world rejoiced in the vast amount of da
...
JUL 06, 2016
Cancer
Researchers from the University of London have found that a drug used to combat addiction may also be effective at killi
...
JUL 04, 2016
Microbiology
Many things go into shaping the flavor or terroir of wine. Food scientists working at the University of California, Davi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 01, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Smoking cigarettes alters dozens of genes in the epithelial cells that line the respiratory tract. Several of these chan
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JUN 27, 2016
Cardiology
Endothelial cells form the lining of all of our body’s blood vessels, from the tiniest capillaries to the largest
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 26, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
New work published in Molecular Psychiatry now reports an association of CNV and schizophrenia. In collaboration wi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch