Even the best medicine has side effects. For years, dairy producers have been selectively breeding their herds to encourage milk production. New insights have confirmed, though, that such efforts to satisfy society's demand for milk, cheese ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The 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
New research is lighting up yet another reason for women to quit smoking. In a study published online in the journal Menopause, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report the first evidence ...
Tags: White Woman, Genetic Variation, Menopause, Smoking
Research involving scientists at the University of York has provided important new information about transmission of human leishmaniasis, a group of infectious diseases which kills more than 100,000 people a year. Professor Deborah Smith ...
Tags: Transmission of Human Leishmaniasis, New Information About Transmission
A new study links a genetic variation to narcolepsy, the medical condition that causes people to become excessively sleepy and even lapse into sleep involuntarily. The genetic variation is fairly common, while narcolepsy is rare. Among ...
Tags: genetic variation, narcolepsy, American Academy of Sleep Medicine
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) (formerly known as NARSAD, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression), under the direction of president and CEO Dr Jeffrey Borenstein, has announced the latest ...
Tags: Narsad, BBRF, investigator, award
HistoGenetics, a New York-based biotech firm specialized in Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) typing services and Sequenced-Based Typing (SBT), has selected Illumina's MiSeq sequencing system for use in its CLIA laboratory. Illumina's MiSeq ...
Illumina has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Complete Genomics in the US District Court for the Southern District of California. The case was filed against Complete Genomics for continuing to infringe Illumina's Patent No. ...
A new strategy aimed at monitoring the supply chain of timber products using genetic and stable isotope markers will play a vital role in international efforts to combat illegal logging, say scientists, policy analysts and forestry experts ...
Tags: market view, timber, tracking tools