Articles in the Category: Genetics
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Genetics, Genomics, Health and Medicine, Video on 02 22nd, 2010 | No Comments
Rose Ellen’s Genetic Assist
A cancer patient is helping doctors at the Mayo Clinic unlock a few genetic secrets. Rose Ellen Heley allowed oncologists to decode her DNA and map her genome.
Mayo Clinic researchers have learned something about her bone marrow cancer in the process that could help others suffering from cancer.
Dr....
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Video on 02 16th, 2010 | No Comments
Science Determines King Tut’s Killer
For years, people thought the Egyptian king was murdered but new DNA evidence is pointing to a different killer. the 3,300-year-old pharaoh King Tutankhamun likely died from complications of a broken leg that was exacerbated by malaria, according to a two-year study of his mummy and family members.
They...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Plants, Video on 02 10th, 2010 | No Comments
Scientists Invent Rice That Doesn’t Need Cooking
Agricultural scientists in India say they have developed a variety of rice that requires no cooking and can be eaten simply after being soaked in water.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Climate, Diseases, Endangered Species, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics and Science, SciClips on 01 10th, 2010 | No Comments
The Growling Uncertainty of Science
One thing is for sure. Science doesn’t do certainty. No matter how close a researcher gets to complete certainty there is always room to know more. Therefore uncertainty is a scientific fact. And we need to get comfortable with it.
From taxonomic tussles over classifying the giant panda to more...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Genetics, Genomics, Health and Medicine, Video on 01 4th, 2010 | No Comments
2 Cancer Codes Cracked
The International Cancer Genome Project is the largest genetic undertaking since the Human Genome Project. It is trying to sequence the DNA of 50 types of cancer over the next few years.
Researchers decoded the genome for lung and skin cancer in mid December. CBC reports.
Fun fact: Scientists discovered...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Genetics, Geology, Politics and Science, SciClips, Video on 11 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment
Going Bananas Over Darwin
Christian pastor Ray Comfort decided to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by writing his own introduction and handing out free copies of the book to college students across the country.
Comfort is responsible for handing out over 100,000 copies of the...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Biology, Featured Articles, Genetics, Politics and Science, SciClips, SciFoo, SciLebs, Video on 07 17th, 2009 | No Comments
Building Something SciFoo Style
Every year the brightest science minds head south in July–somewhat like the swallows to Capistrano. This is more like the string theorists to the world Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.
There, they meet in an unconference, trade brilliant notions and form collaborations to address...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Featured Articles, Genetics, Genomics, Health and Medicine, SciClips on 05 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment
Swine Flu on the March
Swine flu is racing across the world, spreading a deadly virus from continent to continent. The World Health Organization is worried about the beginning of a pandemic. The Center For Disease Control is trying to learn all it can about the new strain of human influenza A H1N1. And, vaccine manufacturers...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Backyard Science, Biofuels, Biology, Dinosaurs, Diseases, Engineering, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, Genomics, Geoengineering, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Nanotechnology, SciClips, Space, Wave Power on 11 17th, 2008 | No Comments
One Celled Solutions
Model of a phage attacking a microbe, courtesy of Ohio State University
Science is facing some big questions, like how will we capture excess atmospheric carbon dioxide or how will we overcome antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections?
But, a one-celled organism that lives in the sea may have the...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Computer Science, Environment, Genetics, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, SciLebs on 11 6th, 2008 | No Comments
Science Fiction Author Crichton Dies
Michael Crichton, courtesy of Harvard University, photo by Jon Chase
After a very private battle with cancer best-selling author Michael Crichton died in Los Angeles. The man who made a career of making scientists perpetually angry could not outwit a devastating disease.
He opened the minds of hundreds...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Consumer Safety, Genetics, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast on 08 8th, 2008 | 1 Comment
Anthrax Case Rests on Science
Bruce Edwards Ivins was the man behind the anthrax terror scare in 2001, according to an FBI task force. The agency, working for seven years with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, says the evidence shows that Dr. Ivins, a respected government microbiologist acted alone when he mailed the deadly substance...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Bioethics, Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Podcast, RawAudio on 08 3rd, 2008 | No Comments
Personlized Genome: A Discussion with Leading Minds
Cells from children with genetic disease Progeria, photo by Brian C. Capell, NHGRI
Some of the top scientific minds met at University of Washington last spring. Their purpose–to discuss the future of personal genomics.
They met on the eve of the passage of the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Dinosaurs, Genetics, Marine Science, Oceanography, SciClips on 06 19th, 2008 | No Comments
Simplifying Evolution
Amphioxus (top), Evolution of Man (bottom)
What’s the difference between a human and a prehistoric fish-like worm? Well, scientists are just beginning to answer that question.
It will likely take them years to figure it all out. But new research is already uncovering how genes evolve to perform...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Math, SciClips on 06 18th, 2008 | No Comments
Natural Beauty
Spirals on a Conch Shell
Sometimes the world seems too complex to be natural. But scientist continually prove that nature is both complicated and natural.
From a butterfly’s wings to the perfect spirals of a seashell, it’s all just patterns. Now new research is showing how cells migrate–also...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Genetics, Marine Science, SciClips on 05 15th, 2008 | No Comments
Undoing Evolution
Dr. Katie Peichel, courtesy of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
There are few examples in nature of a species returning to its more primitive self.
But a tiny freshwater fish has done just that and it might help answer some big questions about human disease like cancer.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Food and Nutrition, Genetics, Health and Medicine, SciClips on 05 12th, 2008 | 1 Comment
Sweet Tooth Gene
Courtesy of FreeImages.com
Some of us must have sugar. It might come in the form of sweet soda or piles of cookies. We affectionately refer to those cravings as a sweet tooth or those having a taste for sugar.
Well, scientists are learning that a genetic mutation might be triggering those insatiable...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Math, SciClips on 05 9th, 2008 | No Comments
Game for a Cure
Human Fyn protein, courtesy of University of Washington
A group of scientists is banking on the world to help solve some big diseases. Cures to finding proteins to stop cancer, Alzheimer’s or HIV may lie in global game players.
A new online videogame project, called FoldIt is looking for players...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Ethanol, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, SciClips on 05 5th, 2008 | No Comments
Rice Race
Dr. Om Parkash, courtesy of University of Massachusetts Amherst
The current rice shortage being felt around the world doesn’t have just one source. It seems that many reasons are causing the food shortage. And, one is quite elemental.
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National DNA Day
National DNA Day 2008 image, courtesy of National Human Genome Research Institute
Today marks the 55th Anniversary of the discovery of DNA’s structure. It’s also the 5th Anniversary of the fully sequenced human genome. Yesterday the U.S. Senate passed the first genetic non-discrimination...
Spit if You Want Your Genetic Code
Everybody has 23 pairs of chromosomes. It’s just part of our genetic makeup. We get half from our mothers and half from our fathers. And that combination of genes outlines our natural abilities, our appearance and even what diseases we could develop. Now a company in California is trying to make...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Bioethics, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, Podcast, SciClips, Video on 01 18th, 2008 | 1 Comment
Animal Human Hybrid Okayed For Research
British scientists now have permission to create human-cow hybrid embryos to further stem cell research of diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Protests began last fall leading up to the decision on January 17. Many are opposed to the crossing of the line between animals and people....
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Genetics, New Species, Podcast, Video on 12 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment
Glow in the dark cats
Just in time for the Holidays. Cats that glow under ultraviolet light. Researchers in South Korea have successfully inserted a fluorescent gene into cloned cats. The purpose is to show that cats can be created with genetic disorders to be better studied and to find cures to human hereditary diseases....
Modified mouse confronts cats
Scientists in Japan have created a genetically modified mouse that is unafraid of cats. It’s like the old Tom & Jerry cartoons…but real.
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