Genetics

  • Viral Evasion Gene Reveals New Targets for Eliminating Chronic Infections
    Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have discovered how a key viral gene helps viruses evade early detection by the immune system. Their finding is providing new insights into how viruses are able to establish chronic infections, leading scientists to reevaluate ...More
    January 5, 2011
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  • Synthetic Riboswitches Turn On Bacterial Genes
    Scientists show that synthetic riboswitches can control gene expression in a wide variety of bacteria, including some organisms in which such control has been difficult. The research is published in the December 2010 issue of the journal Applied and Environmental ...More
    December 17, 2010
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  • Why Humans are More Sensitive to Certain Viruses
    The greater susceptibility of humans to certain infectious diseases when compared to other primates could be explained by species-specific changes in immune signaling pathways, a University of Chicago study finds. The first genome-wide, functional comparison of genes ...More
    December 17, 2010
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  • Unexpectedly Small Effects of Mutations in Bacteria Bring New Perspectives
    Most mutations in the genes of the Salmonella bacterium have a surprisingly small negative impact on bacterial fitness. And this is the case regardless whether they lead to changes in the bacterial proteins or not. This is shown by Uppsala University scientists in an ...More
    November 5, 2010
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  • Researchers Determine the Genetic Blueprint of the Lyme Disease Bacteria
    Researchers Dr. Steven E. Schutzer of UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and Dr. Claire M. Fraser-Liggett of the Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland, and their collaborators have made a major achievement toward better understanding Lyme disease, by ...More
    October 8, 2010
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  • Scientist Awarded $4 Million to Develop Genetic Strategy to Combat TB
    William R. Jacobs, Jr., PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology and of genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator, has been awarded a three-year, $4 million grant from the ...More
    October 4, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Discovery Shows Rapid Evolution of Bacterial Genomes Over the Course of a Single Chronic Infection
    Researchers from the Center for Genomic Sciences at Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) in Pittsburgh have made a landmark discovery about the evolutionary nature of bacteria in the setting of chronic infectious disease. Reporting today in the journal PLos Pathogens, the AGH ...More
    September 17, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Study Examines How Bacteria Acquire Immunity
    In a new study this week, Rice University scientists bring the latest tools of computational biology to bear in examining how the processes of natural selection and evolution influence the way bacteria acquire immunity from disease. The study is available online from ...More
    September 15, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Using Adenovirus to Target and Disrupt Cancer Cells
    A novel mechanism used by adenovirus to sidestep the cell's suicide program, could go a long way to explain how tumor suppressor genes are silenced in tumor cells and pave the way for a new type of targeted cancer therapy, report researchers at the Salk Institute for ...More
    August 25, 2010
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  • Research Team’s Findings Could Shield Humans from Influenza Virus
    A University of Alberta-led (U of A) research team has discovered an influenza detector gene that could potentially prevent the transmission of the virus to humans.Katharine Magor, a U of A associate professor of biology, has identified the genetic detector that allows ...More
    March 30, 2010
    Posted in News
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