11-10-11 They have been around since the dawn of time and are a model of evolutionary success: viruses. Viruses are extremely adaptable but they have a problem: They cannot reproduce, so they smuggle(走私,偷运) their genes into suitable host cells. In the...
11-09-23 An international consortium of scientists reports the discovery of five new genes that affect the risk of developing coronary artery disease ( CAD冠状动脉疾病 ) and heart attacks in a study to be published in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics on...
11-09-19 Durum wheat(硬质小麦) is a valuable cereal crop(禾谷类作物) widely used for human consumption in the United States, Canada, and several European countries. Scab or Fusarium head blight(枯萎病) is one of the crop's most serious diseases, reduci...
11-09-06 You may think your lack of resolve to get off the couch to exercise is because you're lazy, but McMaster University researchers have discovered it may be you are missing key genes. The researchers made their unexpected finding while working with hea...
11-08-28 It has long been known that hereditary factors(遗传因素) play a role in coronary(冠状的) heart disease. However, it has been unclear whether the increased risk is transferred through the genes or through an unhealthy lifestyle in the family. A n...
11-08-20 Kangaroos form an important niche in the tree of life, but until now their DNA had never been sequenced. In an article newly published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, an international consortium(财团,联合) of researchers p...
11-08-17 Medical researchers have discovered a new type of mechanism(机制,原理) causing cancer susceptibility, showing that tiny changes in some anti-cancer genes can act as magnets to attract modifying biochemical tags, effectively switching them off and...
11-07-10 An international team of scientists based in Scotland has decoded the full DNA sequence of the potato for the first time. 一支由国际科学家组成的位于苏格兰的小组首次解码土豆的全部基因序列。 The breakthrough holds out the promise of boosting harvests...
11-06-11 By digging a little deeper, researchers may have found a potential target for reversing the deadly blood infection sepsis(败血症) . Scientists at the University of Michigan Health System looked at microRNA, a type of RNA that does not code for a p...
11-06-10 Mutations in genes essential to survival are behind so-called orphan diseases, explaining in part why these diseases are rare and often deadly, according to a study appearing in The American Journal of Human Genetics. The new finding contrasts sharp...