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Genetic network guards against DNA damage
4.4.2006 | Press monitoring
Johns Hopkins scientists say the discovery in yeast cells of a genetic network that guards against lethal DNA damage is an important milestone.
Red wine components modulate tissue damage induced by bacteria in gum diseases
4.4.2006 | Press monitoring
Researchers are finding that components found in red wine can help in preventing and treating inflammatory periodontal diseases.
Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Show Resistance to Dengue Fever Virus
4.4.2006 | Press monitoring
Researchers have successfully created a genetically engineered mosquito that shows a high level of resistance against the most prevalent type of dengue fever virus, providing a powerful weapon against a disease that infects 50 million people each year.
Swiss inventors develop transcriptionally silenced plant genes
4.4.2006 | Press monitoring
Andrea Steimer of Zurich, Switzerland, Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid of Basel, Switzerland, and Jerzy Paszkowski of Nenzlingen, Switzerland, have developed transcriptionally silenced plant genes.
Protective plague vaccine produced in tobacco leaves
3.4.2006 | Press monitoring
In the 20 years since the approval of recombinant insulin produced in Escherichia coli, biopharmaceuticals have experienced
Stamps create DNA nanoarrays
3.4.2006 | Press monitoring
Researchers at Ohio State University, US, have come up with a modified molecular combing technique for creating arrays of stretched DNA molecules over a millimetre scale. The arrays could have applications in nanoelectronics, biological or chemical sensors, and genetic analysis and medical diagnosis.
Exposure to nanomaterials activates genes
3.4.2006 | Press monitoring
Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of Kentucky, Affymetrix and the University of California, San Francisco, have found that exposing human skin cells to multiwalled carbon nanotubes and multiwalled carbon nano-onions arrests cell cycles and increases cell death. The team looked at gene expression profiles and...
Strawberries by Design
3.4.2006 | Press monitoring
Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) and the Department of Horticulture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech have developed a new procedure for the efficient transfer of specific DNA sequences into the genome of strawberry.
Diversity, distribution and divergence of lin genes in hexachlorocyclohexane-degrading sphingomonads
3.4.2006 | Press monitoring
Two forms of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), γ-HCH (lindane) and technical HCH (incorporating α-, β-, γ- and δ- isomers), have been used against agricultural pests and in health programs since the 1940s.
Brazil and Japan give fuel to ethanol market
3.4.2006 | Press monitoring
Rising oil prices and apprehension about global warming are prompting governments to rethink their energy supply policies.
