13-09-04 MIT researchers have shown that they can turn genes on or off inside yeast and human cells by controlling when DNA is copied into messenger RNA -- an advance that could allow scientists to better understand the function of those genes. The technique...

13-08-24 In a pioneer study published in the latest issue of the scientific journal Nature Communications, a research team at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Cincia (IGC; Portugal), led by Miguel Godinho Ferreira in collaboration with Isabel Gordo, show for the...

13-08-16 The essence of male beauty is down to the way males use their genes rather than what genes they have, according to a new study into the sexual attractiveness of turkeys. Geneticists have long puzzled over why individuals of the same sex show a great...

13-08-14 When egg and sperm combine, the new embryo bustles with（充满） activity. Its cells multiply so rapidly they largely ignore their DNA, other than to copy it and to read just a few essential genes. The embryonic cells mainly rely on molecular instruc...

13-07-30 A good state of mind -- that is, your happiness -- affects your genes, scientists say. In the first study of its kind, researchers from UCLA's Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology and the University of North Carolina examined how positive psycho...

13-07-26 On July 25th JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments will publish a new technique that will help scientists better understand the genes that govern food-related behavior in honey bees. The impact of this study could take scientists one-step clos...

13-07-03 New research by academics at The University of Nottingham has shown that exposure to a neonicotinoid（新烟碱） insecticide causes changes to the genes of the honeybee. The study, published in the online journal PLOS ONE, supports the recent decision...

13-06-27 You say tomato, I say comparative transcriptomics（转录组学） . Researchers in the U.S., Europe and Japan have produced the first comparison of both the DNA sequences and which genes are active, or being transcribed, between the domestic tomato and...

13-05-03 Researchers at the Institute of Biotechnology at the Helsinki University and the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona (UAB) have developed the first three-dimensional simulation of the evolution of morphology（形态学） by integrating the mechanisms of g...

13-04-25 Biologists at UC San Diego have identified eight genes never before suspected to play a role in wound healing that are called into action near the areas where wounds occur. Their discovery, detailed this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, was...