
Can Parents Transmit Memories to Their Offspring?
Biologists first observed “transgenerational epigenetic inheritance” in plants. But, over the past few years, evidence has accumulated showing that the phenomenon also occurs in rodents and humans.
For example, in humans it has been…

Luck or DNA – Genetics of the Four-Leaf Clover and the Search for the Elusive Lucky Gene
The clover genome is very complicated and even though many scientists have tried to find the exact genes responsible for the four-leaf mutation, they haven’t been identified as of yet.
In 2010 researchers from the University of Georgia,…

Tetanus Vaccine Can Improve Immunotherapy for Lethal Brain Tumors
Innovative approach - Enhancing the effect of a vaccine therapy to improve patient survival.
Researchers from the Duke Cancer Institute presented an innovative approach to prime the immune system of patients with glioblastoma multiforme…

Agents of Change – MIQE Guidelines New iBook
Can we trust your published qPCR data?
The pressure to publish is causing shortcuts which result in misleading papers being published.
Today there is a great deal of pressure to publish papers in high-ranking, high-impact factor journals…

Genetic Fingerprinting: Do Some Twins Have More Than One Father?
The only way to confirm heteropaternal superfecundation in human twins is genetic testing.
It is very common that kittens or other animals from one litter can have different fathers. This happens when two or more eggs from the same menstrual…

Major Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in Molecular Biology – Who Owns Whom?
In the last 15 years life science research and workflows have been transformed by new techniques and lab automation.
Specialized kits for a plethora of molecular techniques, as well as new gadgets such as electronic pipettes, automatized…

INTERVIEW: Open Your Mind to the Unlimited Future Possibilities
Short Coffee Break Conversation about the Future of Sequencing
Meet Fang Chen, BGI - Beijing Genomics Institute, the world’s largest genomics organization.
KLEMEN: Hello everyone, I'm here with Fang Chen from BGI. We are here in Freising…

Biomolecular Detection and Quantification Journal
Elsevier's Biomolecular Detection and Quantification (BDQ) journal is a new open access, peer-reviewed international journal focused on the application of qualitative and quantitative molecular methodologies to all areas of clinical and life…

Smelling the Disease – the Use of Scent in Cancer Diagnostics
New research shows that dogs can beat expensive modern diagnostic methods in detecting cancer.
The rationale behind the idea of using trained dogs to detect cancer in urine and blood samples or patient´s breath is that their sense of smell…
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