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Baruvi Fresh Launches Hummustir in New Packaging
May 3, 2017Baruvi Fresh has launched Hummustir in new packaging, which is claimed to the industry's first USDA organic, non-refrigerated and preservative free hummus. Revolutionizing the hummus category with the introduction of the industry's first ...
Tags: Baruvi Fresh, Packaging
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Toyota Develops DNA Analysis Technology for Agricultural Improvement
Sep 27, 2016Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that it has developed a new deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) analysis technology called Genotyping by Random Amplicon Sequencing (GRAS) using analytical materials that have been provided by the Kyushu ...
Tags: TMC, DNA analysis technology, Genotyping
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Three Scientists Share 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Dec 29, 2015Three scientists share 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Wednesday. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar "for mechanistic studies ...
Tags: Nobel Prize, Chemistry
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a Scientist Has Been Awarded an ERC Advanced Grant
Jul 13, 2015A scientist from James Hutton Institute and University of Dundee has been awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to undertake research on the fundamental mechanisms that underpin the inheritance of genetic characteristics ...
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The FDA Won't Let 23andme Sell Its Personal Genomic Service Tests
Jan 12, 2015The FDA won’t let 23andMe sell its Personal Genomic Service tests to consumers in the United States, but that hasn’t stopped the company from selling its customers’ anonymous information to other companies for research. ...
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The Discovery of Seven New Regions of DNA Linked to Type 2 Diabetes
Feb 26, 2014The discovery of seven new regions of DNA linked to type 2 diabetes could lead to new ways of thinking about diabetes and new treatments for the disease, researchers suggest. The findings were among the results of the largest study to ...
Tags: genetic effects, compiled genetic information, biology of the disease
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Advances in Light-Sheet Microscopy LED to Impressive Images,Videos of The Brain in Action
Feb 8, 2014(Phys.org) —Advances in light-sheet microscopy have led to impressive images and videos of the brain in action. With this technique, a plane of light is scanned through the sample to excite fluorescent calcium sensors which proxy ...
Tags: LFM, Google glass, Misha Ahrens, microscopy
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A Substantial Fraction of The Neanderthal Genome Persists in Modern Human Populations
Feb 8, 2014A substantial fraction of the Neanderthal genome persists in modern human populations. A new approach applied to analyzing whole-genome sequencing data from 665 people from Europe and East Asia shows that more than 20 percent of the ...
Tags: DNA, Max Planck Institute, Vernot, Human Genome
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Flies Living with Their Brothers Cause Less Harm to Females
Jan 22, 2014Flies living with their brothers cause less harm to females during courting than those living with unrelated flies, say Oxford University scientists. The study, published this week in Nature, found that unrelated male flies compete more ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Through DNA Analysis,Illinois Researchers Have Disproved The Ancient Battle of Raphia
Jan 10, 2014Through DNA analysis, Illinois researchers have disproved years of rumors and hearsay surrounding the ancient Battle of Raphia, the only known battle between Asian and African elephants. "What everyone thinks about war elephants is ...
Tags: DNA analysis, ancient Battle of Raphia, war elephants, Alfred Roca
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DuPont Pioneer Taps New Scientific Disciplines to Improve Yield Potential
Jan 10, 2014DuPont Pioneer Taps New Scientific Disciplines to Improve Yield Potential Adds expertise in novel fields to help improve performance in customer fields From DuPont Pioneer News As part of its ongoing commitment to provide corn ...
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Sanford Health Will Gift The Organization $125 Million to Establish Sanford Imagenetics
Jan 9, 2014Sanford Health announced today Denny Sanford, the preeminent health care philanthropist in the United States, will gift the organization $125 million to establish Sanford Imagenetics, a first-of-its-kind program in the country that ...
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How Life Arose From The Chemical Soup That Existed on Early Earth?
Dec 30, 2013One of the biggest questions in science is how life arose from the chemical soup that existed on early Earth. One theory is that RNA, a close relative of DNA, was the first genetic molecule to arise around 4 billion years ago, but in a ...
Tags: RNA, origin of life
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Scientists Say They May Have Found a Way to Predict Survival From Ovarian Cancer
Dec 26, 2013By counting the number of cancer-fighting immune cells inside tumors, scientists say they may have found a way to predict survival from ovarian cancer. The researchers developed an experimental method to count these cells, called ...
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LabCorp Has Announced The Nationwide Availability of Qiagen's Therascreen KRAS RGQ PCR Kit
Oct 29, 2013Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) has announced the nationwide availability of QIAGEN’s therascreen KRAS RGQ PCR kit, a new US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved companion diagnostic for certain colorectal ...
Tags: Labcorp, Colorectal Cancer