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Cannabis Business Times
February 1, 2018
Now, though, thanks to Sunrises' coordinated resources—including stabilized plant populations of the plant biologist George Weiblen's laboratory at the University of Minnesota—fellow geneticists will be able to access a comprehensive picture of cannabis' 10 pairs of chromosomes. Weiblen's lab is the only DEA-approvedÃÂ ...
Futurism
January 29, 2018
By isolating desirable genetics traits from European and African cow breeds, geneticists hope to design a cow that produces high quantities of milk and is also able to withstand exceptionally high temperatures. An Edinburgh-based nonprofit, GALVmed (Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines)ÃÂ ...
ScienceNordic
January 26, 2018
Genetic material form people in some of the poorest regions of Pakistan are in high demand among scientists around the world. In Denmark, geneticists have used such samples from rural Pakistan to understand how genetic defects occur. Genetic defects and disease are more common in areas of PakistanÃÂ ...
Phys.Org
January 22, 2018
A depiction of the double helical structure of DNA. Its four coding units (A, T, C, G) are color-coded in pink, orange, purple and yellow. Credit: NHGRI. Ever since DNA was first isolated in 1869, the scientific community has constantly sought to determine how it works, and reveal its secrets. Despite advancesÃÂ ...
Big Think
January 22, 2018
The majority of its 330,000 inhabitants descend from a small group of Vikings and Celts who settled some 1,100 years ago, and immigration to the island country has been rare ever since. Icelanders keep exceptional genealogical records on almost every single citizen, a longstanding practice done partlyÃÂ ...
Big Think (blog)
January 21, 2018
After that, the geneticists compared their findings to other genomic data from sources in the US, the UK, and the Netherlands. Those who had higher degrees usually had less children, researchers found, leading to a case of negative selection for higher education genes. Negative selection is a purging ofÃÂ ...
Modern Farmer
January 19, 2018
Genetic modification of plants is common in U.S. agriculture. But animals? Not so much. That could be changing soon. The MIT Technology Review ran a profile of Australian geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam, who has been working on something pretty crazy: genetically modified cattle that only give birth toÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 9, 2018
South African authorities long had eyes on Rogers Mukwena. They knew the former schoolteacher was wanted in Zimbabwe for poaching rhinoceroses and selling their horns, which can command hundreds of thousands of dollars. He'd jumped bail and fled to northern Pretoria, but it was vexingly difficult toÃÂ ...
Science Daily
December 22, 2017
Geneticists recommend designating isolated dolphin population as 'endangered'. Date: December 22, 2017; Source: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Summary: Bottlenose dolphins in Panama's Bocas Del Toro Archipelago should be designated as endangered say the authors of a new study. Biologists haveÃÂ ...
Digital Trends
December 22, 2017
For many people today, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, aka ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, is most commonly linked with both the fundraising Ice Bucket Challenge and one its most famous patients, the physicist Stephen Hawking. However, it could soon have a brand-new distinction — the next disease to beÃÂ ...
Genetic Literacy Project
December 14, 2017
By comparing DNA sequences, geneticists can not only reconstruct relationships between different populations or species but also infer evolutionary history over deep timescales. Molecular clocks are becoming more sophisticated, thanks to improved DNA sequencing, analytical tools and a betterÃÂ ...
University of California
December 14, 2017
UCSF is moving to bring primary care physicians and other providers together with geneticists, and incorporate genetic information in the care of healthy ... Ophir Klein (left), M.D., Ph.D., is leading initiatives at UCSF that will bring together geneticists with clinicians so patients have an avenue through whichÃÂ ...
Inverse
December 7, 2017
The revolution will not be televised. It'll be sent to your inbox by us. sign up. Scientists have found a new use for a precision gene-editing technique that could prove safer and treat disease without creating mutated side-effects. With the CRISPR-Cas9 technology that enables researchers to remove, add orÃÂ ...
Quartz
December 6, 2017
In December 2017, Cell Press reported that geneticists at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland proposed a new approach to pest control. They would attack rat sperm at the DNA level, using Crispr gene-editing technology to eliminate X chromosomes and thus end female births, slowly but surely killing offÃÂ ...
The Scientist
December 4, 2017
Breakthrough Prizes Recognize Geneticists, Big Bang Researchers. Among this year's winners are a geneticist who revealed how plants respond to shade and a group of physicists who mapped the universe's background radiation. By Catherine Offord | December 4, 2017. AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to FacebookÃÂ ...
Healthcare IT News
December 3, 2017
In the area of human capital, nearly one-third (30 percent) of respondents said they have in-house geneticists in place. Thirty-eight percent of respondents expect to have in-house geneticists in place within the next two years. The chief quality officer of an intermediate-size (251 to 500 bed) providerÃÂ ...
Scientific American
October 31, 2017
Psychiatric disorders can be debilitating and often involve a genetic component, yet, evolution hasn't weeded them out. Now, recent work is beginning to reveal the role of natural selection—offering a peek at how the genetic underpinnings of mental illness has changed over time. Many psychiatricÃÂ ...
STAT
October 11, 2017
esearch grounded in genetics is booming: Therapies are in the works to treat a number of rare, inherited disorders, from blindness to nerve disease. But there's a shortage of doctors trained to diagnose and treat such illnesses. During match season for medical trainees this year, just 30 of the 55 spots forÃÂ ...
Scientific American
December 31, 1999
And because many geneticists worked with only a few key organisms, such as the thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana, they didn't need expertise in comparing and contrasting different plant species. At universities, botany departments folded and molecular-biology departments swelled. Kellogg, now at theÃÂ ...
thejournal.ie
November 29, 2017
... simple inherited trait, such as earlobe attachment, involves a complex interplay of genes that geneticists are only beginning to understand.
Science Daily
November 29, 2017
The UNIGE geneticists also found that trisomy 21 also affected the cell's various sub-structures, especially the mitochondria, which are ...
Wired.co.uk
November 29, 2017
Along with the nine purported Yeti relics, the geneticists also sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of 14 other Asian bears and compared that ...
Reno Gazette Journal
November 25, 2017
“This study represents a great partnership between wildlife management and geneticists,” said Jason Malaney, lead author of the study.
GenomeWeb
November 22, 2017
It has been readily utilized by doctors, geneticists, and genetic counselors looking for information on inherited disorders, and testing and ...
UCSF News Services
November 21, 2017
a researcher does genetic testing in a lab UCSF is moving to bring primary care physicians and other providers together with geneticists, and ...
Science Daily
November 21, 2017
For more than a century, plant geneticists have been studying maize as a model system to understand the rules governing the inheritance of ...
OPB News
November 16, 2017
But between its walls, geneticists have been breeding an agricultural product that would have been unthinkable in 1920s Czechoslovakia.
Inside Science News Service
November 7, 2017
(Inside Science) -- You know that rose or honey scent that wafts from certain fine wines and beers? It comes from a chemical called phenylethyl ...
Science Daily
November 7, 2017
So forensic geneticists in this situation often focus on the DNA found on Y chromosomes because this can only come from a male. Unlike an ...
The Australian
November 7, 2017
Pioneering biochemist and former National Health and Medical Research Council chairman John Shine has been elected president of the ...
HuffPost
November 4, 2017
Geneticists have learned more about the DNA of people in Europe and North America than those in the rest of the world, where the greatest ...
Phys.Org
October 27, 2017
Gene promoters determine how the transcription machinery is stopped at the end of the gene. Credit: Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical ...
Quartz
October 25, 2017
Scientists have figured out how to take gene editing to a whole new level, making extremely precise changes that may one day allow us to ...
The Scientist
October 22, 2017
Professionals in the genetics field generally support editing the genomes of somatic cells, mirroring public opinion, but diverge from nonexperts ...
High Plains Journal
October 21, 2017
The team, including geneticists, virologists and entomologists, is focusing on four major stressors facing corn: viral and fungal diseases, insect ...
Medical Xpress
October 19, 2017
On germline uses, an ethically more complex issue because of potential effects on future generations, geneticists were more divided, but most ...
GenomeWeb
October 19, 2017
Also, results suggest that views of research geneticists differed somewhat from those of clinical geneticists, though the analysis has not been ...
Science Daily
October 19, 2017
This is the consensus of leading ophthalmologists, pathologists and geneticists, who worked for two years to develop the first U.S. guidelines ...
National Geographic
October 14, 2017
What they're finding out, says British geneticist Adam Rutherford in A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, rewrites the story of human life ...
Nature.com
October 13, 2017
This week, geneticists announce the results of one such project. The researchers describe how they have analysed the regulatory code in our ...
KUOW News and Information
October 13, 2017
One tiny change in dogs' genes likely boosted their immune response to the malaria parasite, geneticists from Yunnan University reported ...
New Scientist
October 12, 2017
This might surprise some geneticists, says Tishkoff. Previous studies of a skin pigmentation gene called MC1R had led many geneticists to ...
Irish Health
October 12, 2017
"Current recommendations indicate a minimum of three consultant geneticists per million and one full-time genetic counsellor per 100,000Â ...
Inverse
October 12, 2017
With their observations, the team of geneticists led by the University of Pennsylvania's Sarah Tishkoff, Ph.D., tear down that notion by ...
STAT
October 11, 2017
esearch grounded in genetics is booming: Therapies are in the works to treat a number of rare, inherited disorders, from blindness to nerve ...
Louth Leader
October 8, 2017
Alford based egg producers, LJ Fairburn & Son Ltd, have worked with top geneticists to produce 'the perfect egg', which recently earned a ...
myCentralOregon.com
October 7, 2017
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Three scientists who studied circadian rhythms have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology ...
WIRED
September 20, 2017
Before the geneticists could work with the samples, though, they needed permission. In some cases, those whose hair samples were taken ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
So long pea plants and fruit flies, hello earwax, lactose intolerance and a bunch of geneticists in a bar creating a betting pool for how many ...
Medical Xpress
December 31, 1999
Aimin Liu, Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair in Biochemistry at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has published research ...
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