What do you get when you cross yeast and first year biology students?
What do you get when you cross a yeast and first year biology students? Apparently, a very cool undergraduate course and significant scientific innovation! UC Berkeley students who are lucky enough to...
View ArticleRewriting Molecular Biology Textbooks…Again!
Over the past decade, research in the field of epigenetics has revealed that chemically modified bases are abundant components of the human genome and has forced us to abandon the notion we’ve had...
View ArticleWhere liberal arts meets biology
Students are often faced with with some very contradictory decisions. Liberal arts or natural sciences? English literature or chemistry? The classical educational framework forces students to choose...
View ArticlePolygamy is the key to a sweeter life
Image credit: David TarpyWhen it comes to honey bees, more mates is better. A new study from North Carolina State University, the University of Maryland and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)...
View ArticleBe happy: Your genes may thank you for it
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...
View ArticleA Genetic Explanation of Why You May Look More Like Your Mother
We are a product of our parents. Maybe you have your mother’s large, dark eyes, and you inherited your father’s infectious smile. Both parents contribute one copy, or allele, of each gene to their...
View ArticleWhy Geneticists May Have to Learn Yet Another Language
When talking about genetic abnormalities at the DNA level that occur when chromosomes swap, delete or add parts, there is an evolving communication gap both in the science and medical worlds, leading...
View ArticleHealth Benefits of Coffee Genetically Dependent
Another day, another study on the health benefits or detriments of habitual coffee drinking. Good for you. Bad for you. Good for your heart, bad for your kidneys. Good for your kidneys, bad for your...
View ArticleRevenge of Morgan’s Fruit Flies
In 1933, Thomas H. Morgan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity. Much of his research involved breading...
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