Picture the scene: you wake up in the dim light of the morning, and wonder if it's already time to get up. Just as you reach for your bedside clock, your morning alarm goes off. It's a handy—if mysterious—skill. But how ...
Apr 26, 2023
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Having shown that diet can influence gene expression, science is starting to find out more about how this happens. According to an article recently published in Food and Chemical Toxicology, a diet supplemented with or ...
Jun 15, 2022
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Genes that perform critical but mundane tasks within cells—such as generating energy or eliminating waste—haven't traditionally been considered prime targets for cancer therapy. A new study led by Caitlin Nichols, Brenton ...
May 25, 2020
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Indiana University researchers have discovered that a chemical compound found in essential oils improves the healing process in mice when it is topically applied to a skin wound—a finding that could lead to improved treatments ...
Dec 18, 2019
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Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine and the Institute for Molecular Medicine (FIMM) at the University of Helsinki have developed a computational model, Combined Essentiality Scoring (CES) that enables accurate identification ...
Nov 14, 2019
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The effects of linoleic acid on the human body are largely dependent on genes, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. Linoleic acid is an essential fatty acid. People carrying different variants of the ...
Jan 16, 2019
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Genes known to be essential to life—the ones humans need to survive and thrive in the womb—also play a critical role in the development of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), suggests a new study from Penn Medicine geneticists ...
Dec 12, 2016
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We humans like to think of ourselves as on the top of the heap compared to all the other living things on our planet. Life has evolved over three billion years from simple one-celled creatures through to multicellular plants ...
Oct 19, 2016
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(HealthDay)—Scientists are closer than ever to cracking the hidden code of life itself, having engineered a synthetic bacteria with a "minimum" number of genes needed to support its existence.
Mar 24, 2016
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Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)'s Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have identified a new paradigm for the identification and evaluation of genes for cell survival. ...
Dec 4, 2015
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