Biotech

Results showed that the mean (±SD) area under the curve for the total serum response to [2H]retinol was 39.9 ± 20.7 µg·d after the Golden Rice dose. Compared with that of the [13C10]retinyl acetate reference dose (84.7 ± 34.6 µg·d), Golden Rice ?-carotene provided 0.24-0.94 mg retinol. Thus, the conversion factor of Golden Rice ?-carotene [...]

Founded, three genes that that increase risk of early-onset obesity in children, and morbid obesity in adults. This research involved a genetic study of 1,380 Europeans. Their findings have been published in the Jan. 19 issue of the journal Nature Genetics.  ”The idea was not just to look at run-of-the-mill obesity, but look for genetic factors [...]

A virus has showed near the foothills of western Uganda. It named Bundibugyo. Bundibugyo resembles no other previously discovered strains. Based on an outbreak about a year ago, 35% of people infected with Bundibugyo die, says Jonathan Towner, a microbiologist at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, who was part [...]

Research on human embryonic stem cells involves ethical issues since it will harming the embryos. The embryonic stem cells become important due to its potential result in treatment diseases such as Parkinson. Skin Cells into Embryonic Stem Cells Recently, scientiests in the US and Japan could change mouse skin cells into what appear to be embryonic [...]

Four years after Human Genome Project was completed (2003), James D. Watson, The Nobel Prize winner who helped discover the molecular structure of DNA, got his entire genome map. He has just exposed all of his imperfections to public view. Now, he is taking personal risk due to his genome publicly available. Will Discrimination Occur? Genetically-based discrimination [...]

BRCA1 and BRCA2 are the well-known breast cancer-causing genes. However, there are breast cancer-causing genes of non-BRCA families that largely unknown. Nowadays the researchers in the world try to discover new breast cancer-causing genes, the non-BRCA falimilies, by investigate genes which have a history of breast cancer. In University of Cambridge, for example, the researchers found [...]