News tagged with rna species

'Bifocals' in mangrove fish species discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- A "four-eyed" fish that sees simultaneously above and below the water line has offered up a dramatic example of how gene expression allows organisms to adapt to their environment.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New 'Tree of Life' established for one of the largest groups of bacteria

A new "tree of life" has been constructed by researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech for the gamma-proteobacteria, a large group of medically and scientifically important bacteria that ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Small RNAs can play critical roles in male infertility/contraception

University of Nevada School of Medicine scientists in the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology have discovered insight into the reproductive workings of the male sex chromosome that may have significant ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Scientists identify most lethal known species of prion protein

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified a single prion protein that causes neuronal death similar to that seen in "mad cow" disease, but is at least 10 times more ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Behavior of parent organisms may influence genes passed on to next generation

Timing is everything, and if there was ever a scientist whose legacy was tarnished by bad timing, it was Jean Baptiste Lamarck. The French naturalist lived from 1744 to 1829 - and published his own evolutionary theory decades ...

Biology / Evolution

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Using plants to silence insect genes in a high-throughput manner

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, are now using a procedure which brings forward ecological research on insects: They study gene functions in moth larvae by manipulating ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify novel regulatory network within legumes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three collaborating laboratories in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Delaware -- those of professors Blake Meyers, Janine Sherrier and Pamela J. Green -- recently ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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RNA editing responsible for colder water survival in octopus

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered that when it comes to the survival of an octopus living in frigid waters, the reasoning is not a difference in the gene DNA but rather a difference in the RNA editing.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

A radar for ADAR: Altered gene tracks RNA editing in neurons

To track what they can't see, pilots look to the green glow of the radar screen. Now biologists monitoring gene expression, individual variation, and disease have a glowing green indicator of their own: Brown ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Long intervening non-coding RNAs play pivotal roles in brain development

Whitehead Institute scientists have identified conserved, long intervening non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) that play key roles during embryonic brain development in zebrafish. They also show that the human versions of the lincRNAs ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists answer how bacteria fight toxic flouride

Yale researchers have uncovered the molecular tricks used by bacteria to fight the effects of fluoride, which is commonly used in toothpaste and mouthwash to combat tooth decay.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Genome tree of life is largest yet for seed plants

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, The New York Botanical Garden, and New York University have created the largest genome-based tree of life for seed plants ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Inbreeding in bed bugs one key to massive increases in infestations

New research on the bed bug's ability to withstand the genetic bottleneck of inbreeding, announced today at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) annual meeting, provides new clues to explain the rapidly ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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