• 病毒DNA如何感染细胞核

    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...

  • 5种能导致冠状动脉疾病的基因被发现

    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...

  • 提高硬质小麦对疮痂病的免疫力

    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...

  • “沙发土豆”也与基因有关

    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...

  • 冠心病乃遗传病 与生活习惯无关

    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...

  • 袋鼠基因组定序成功

    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...

  • 甲基磁化易引发家庭癌症

    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...

  • 土豆基因组解码成功

    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...

  • 研究人员发现治疗败血症潜在的新方法

    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...

  • 重要基因突变易导致罕见疾病

    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...