Genetics

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Genetics

Naked digger and cancer: who's who?

Manipulations with genes led biologists to discover the mechanism of cellular aging of diggers and to the possibility of overcoming the main problem of human cell therapy.

18.07.2016
Genetics

To the last leaf

Genogeography has made it possible to turn genetic binoculars into a microscope, revealing differences between very similar gene pools and detecting traces of recent events.

18.07.2016
Genetics

An oncosuppressor can become an oncogene

High expression of p21 was considered a good sign for cancer patients – it meant that p53 would slow down the development of the tumor. A new study has shown that not everything is so simple.

12.07.2016
Genetics

How paternal mitochondria disappear

Geneticists have found out why mitochondrial DNA is usually inherited from the maternal line – this fundamental question has occupied researchers for more than half a century.

08.07.2016
Genetics

Genetic monotony

The bottleneck effect has led to the fact that a greater number of harmful mutations are common among Greenland Eskimos than in other human populations.

04.07.2016
Genetics

Superman Genes

While we are exhausted in the gym or waiting with horror for a hangover, everything is given to these lucky people for nothing. Is it true that genetics generously distributes gifts to someone, and leaves someone with a constant feeling of hunger?

01.07.2016
Genetics

Error-free transcriptase

Molecular biologists from the University of Texas at Austin have created an artificial enzyme that allows you to accurately copy genetic information.

27.06.2016
Genetics

Postmortem gene expression

The method of measuring the postmortem activity of genes can be used to create new methods for preserving donor organs, predicting the success of transplantation and determining the time of death.

23.06.2016
Genetics

The main cause of chronic pain is named

Revealing the role of the MeSP2 protein in the regulation of pain sensations will help explain the mechanisms of chronic pain, as well as develop ways to treat it.

22.06.2016
Genetics

Social epigenetics

The level of activity of the gene encoding the hormone oxytocin can have a profound effect on the social behavior of humans and other mammals.

22.06.2016
Genetics

Why are we different?

Most of our differences depend on which specific set of gene variants we received from our parents, and on how well and harmoniously different groups of alleles can work.

20.06.2016
Genetics

The evolutionary role of tumors

Lecture by Andrey Kozlov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, devoted to the study of evolutionarily new genes of cancer tumors.

16.06.2016
Genetics

Submit the metagenome for analysis

A software tool called MetaFast, developed by Russian scientists, allows for a quick comparative analysis of a large number of metagenomes.

15.06.2016
Genetics

Double-bottom DNA

Physicists have confirmed the long-standing hypothesis that there is a "second layer of information" in the genetic code: the mechanical properties of DNA determine how the sequence of nucleotides will be read.

14.06.2016
Genetics

"Genes of winners"

Genetic differences can partially predict a person's life success, although, of course, many other factors have an impact on the life path of an individual.

09.06.2016
Genetics

Synthetic human genome

An international group of scientists, which included the famous biologist George Church, proposed a project to create a synthetic human genome.

03.06.2016
Genetics

The cause of multiple sclerosis is a mutation

Multiple sclerosis can be caused by the replacement of just one nucleotide in the NR1H3 gene. The discovery refutes the opinion that this disease is never inherited.

02.06.2016