Genetics News

Publication Announcement: Policies Must Keep Pace With Genetic Progress

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:20:07 GMT

Washington, DC - June 19, 2008 - Enactment of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008 is a boon to individual patients and for genetic research, write Kathy Hudson, M.

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Pan-European Research Infrastructure Will Manage Biological Samples Across Continent

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:20:06 GMT

The University of Manchester has been successful in gaining major European Union funding to begin joint planning of how millions of biological samples, such as DNA, can be managed and made available to research scientists across Europe.

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Desert Plant May Hold Key To Surviving Food Shortage

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:20:05 GMT

The plant, Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi, is unique because, unlike normal plants, it captures most of its carbon dioxide at night when the air is cooler and more humid, making it 10 times more water-efficient than major crops such as wheat.

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CHFR Gene Is Key In Avoiding Road To Breast Cancer

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:00:12 GMT

A University of Michigan study reveals in detail how breast cells produce new cells that are predisposed to become cancerous, unless they receive the protective action of the CHFR gene.

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Gene-expression Profiling Of The Effects Of Liver Toxins

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:00:11 GMT

Gene-expression data from liver tissue or whole blood can be used to classify histopathologic differences in the effects of hepatotoxins.

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Researchers Find An Evolutionarily Preserved Signature In The Primate Brain

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:00:11 GMT

Researchers have determined that there are hundreds of biological differences between the sexes when it comes to gene expression in the cerebral cortex of humans and other primates.

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Male And Female Brains Have Evolutionarily Conserved Sexual Signatures

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:00:10 GMT

An article published in the open-access journal PLoS Geneticsreports that male and female primates and humans have hundreds ofbiological differences that are evident in gene expressions in thecerebral cortex.

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Genome Sequence Shows How Genes Quadrupled During Vertebrate Evolution

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:00:09 GMT

The newly sequenced genome of a dainty, quill-like sea creature called a lancelet provides the best evidence yet that vertebrates evolved over the past 550 million years through a four-fold duplication of the genes of more primitive ancestors.

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People Who Carry The Obesity Gene Eat More

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:00:08 GMT

People with a variant of the first common gene linked to obesity on average eat more, according to new research.

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Genetics Behind Male Homosexuality Could Be Explained By Sexually Antagonistic Selection

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:00:07 GMT

Anew model has been proposed to explain the evolutionary origin andmaintenance of male homosexuality in human populations in the contextof Darwinian Evolution by invoking the idea of sexually antagonisticselection.

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