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Researchers Discover Protein Changes that Control Whether a Gene Functions

A Penn State-led research team has found that changes to proteins called histones, which are associated with DNA, can control whether or not a gene is allowed to function.
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Roche and the Medicines Patent Pool Sign Agreement for Treatment of CMV in HIV Patients

The Medicines Patent Pool and healthcare company Roche announce an agreement to increase access to Valcyte (valganciclovir), a key medicine to treat cytomegalovirus (CMV).
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Saskatchewan Scientists Release DNA Sequence of New Industrial Oilseed Crop

Camelina, an oilseed crop popular in Europe prior to the dominance of rapeseed and canola, is increasingly recognized as a valuable industrial oil platform.
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Study Reveals Genes That Drive Brain Cancer

About 15 percent of glioblastoma patients could receive personalized treatment with drugs currently used in other cancers.
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Fetal Stress Disrupts the Way Genes are Transmitted

New research suggests that a disruption of genetic imprinting often happens prenatally, implicating fetal stressors as long-term risk factor for chronic disease.
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Population Genetics Assigns NGS Patent to NEB

PGT assigns asymmetric adaptor library construction patent to New England Biolabs.
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Researchers Get Close-Up View of Water Pores Needed in the Eye's Lens

NIH-funded study of aquaporins could hold clues to cataract.
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Advance in Regenerative Medicine Could Make Reprogrammed Cells Safer While Improving Their Function

Finding suggests the potential to repair a patients' organs using cells from ailing tissue.
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Revealing the Gene Network for Producing the Toxin in Green Potatoes may Help Improve Crops

Although rarely fatal in humans, eating green potatoes can often cause illness in farm animals.
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The Epigenome Differentiates the Different Human Populations

Establishing what differentiates us from our neighbors, our friends or strangers from distant countries.
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