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Integrating Environmental Factors in Genetic Research: A New Perspective

Integrating Environmental Factors in Genetic Research: A New Perspective

It has long been known that there is a complex interplay between genetic factors and environmental influences in shaping behavior.

28 Feb 2024

New Insights into MCM8/9 Enzyme Could Lead to Treatments for Infertility and Cancer

New Insights into MCM8/9 Enzyme Could Lead to Treatments for Infertility and Cancer

Scientific research requires patience. The rewards are not always immediate, and the technology needed does not always exist. Michael A. Trakselis, Ph.D., professor and director of graduate affairs for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Baylor University, understands this.

30 Aug 2023

New study gauges public acceptance of gene-edited foods

New study gauges public acceptance of gene-edited foods

Through CRISPR and other gene-editing technologies, researchers and developers are poised to bring dozens – if not hundreds – of new products to grocery stores: mushrooms with longer shelf lives, drought-resistant corn and bananas impervious to a fungus threatening the global supply.

29 Jun 2022

Scientists receive $10 million grant to study the environmental benefits of perennial grasses

Scientists receive $10 million grant to study the environmental benefits of perennial grasses

Iowa State University scientists are developing new approaches to cover crops that incorporate perennial groundcovers, a development that could break down barriers keeping farmers from adopting the cover cropping more widely.

11 Oct 2021

Study assesses cellular agriculture's potential trajectories

Study assesses cellular agriculture's potential trajectories

Depending on how it occurs, the development of cellular agriculture -; food grown in factories from cells or yeast -; has the potential to either accelerate socioeconomic inequality or provide beneficial alternatives to the status quo.

From Penn State University 26 Aug 2021

New initiative to make food systems more sustainable

New initiative to make food systems more sustainable

Worldwide, unsustainable farming practices are damaging both the global environment and the health and wellbeing of people everywhere.

3 Jun 2021

Tackling climate change using green energy

Tackling climate change using green energy

Professor Ulf Liebe speaks to AZoLifeSciences about tackling climate change using green energy, and the behavioral challenges surrounding climate mitigation.

From The University of Warwick 24 Mar 2021

Researchers develop new method to produce artificial organelles in living yeast cells

Researchers develop new method to produce artificial organelles in living yeast cells

Cells of higher organisms use cell organelles to separate metabolic processes from each other. This is how cell respiration takes place in the mitochondria, the cell’s power plants.

16 Nov 2020

Phthalate exposure associated with sleep disruptions in midlife women

Phthalate exposure associated with sleep disruptions in midlife women

For menopausal women who have difficulty sleeping, it might be because of chemicals in the environment.

30 Jul 2020

Report highlights role of genomics in perpetuating racism and inequality

Report highlights role of genomics in perpetuating racism and inequality

Genomics is crowding out ways of reducing inequality, has thwarted medicine from advancing justice, and is creating new forms of social classification and surveillance.

9 Jul 2020

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