Category Archives: Genetic Engineering

Unique approach needed to accurately assess health of young adult cancer survivors

( Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News ) Childhood cancer survivors are living longer and there is an urgent need for better, more comprehensive ways to evaluate their health-related quality of life and need for psychosocial services.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=genetic+engineering&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

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Bt cotton has done little in increasing yields: SAGE

The Southern Action on Genetic Engineering (SAGE) has alleged that the ‘success story of Bt cotton' in the last 10 years is only a hype. When Bt cotton spread to 85 per cent of the country's cotton area in 2009-10, … Continue reading →

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SAGE® Labs Creates The First Tissue-Specific Gene Deletion In Rats

St. Louis /PRNewswire/ — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) today announced that Sigma Advanced Genetic Engineering (SAGE) Labs, an initiative of Sigma Life Science, extended CompoZr Zinc Finger Nuclease (ZFN) technology to achieve the first tissue-specific conditional knockout of an endogenous gene in rats. Continue reading →

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GSK, Epizyme and Constellation to develop next generation of epigenetic drugs for cancer

Published on April 19, 2012 at 3:18 AM Scientific insights that expand on the teachings of Mendel, Watson and Crick, and underpinnings of the Human Genome Project are moving drug companies along the path to development of new medicines based on deeper insights into how factors other than the genetic code influence health and disease. Continue reading →

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Not by DNA alone: How the epigenetics revolution is fostering new medicines

Public release date: 18-Apr-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Michael Bernstein m_bernstein@acs.org 202-872-6042 American Chemical Society Scientific insights that expand on the teachings of Mendel, Watson and Crick, and underpinnings of the Human Genome Project are moving drug companies along the path to development of new medicines based on deeper insights into how factors other than the genetic code influence health and disease. Continue reading →

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SAGE® Labs Creates the First Tissue-Specific Gene Deletion in Rats

ST. LOUIS, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL – News) today announced that Sigma Advanced Genetic Engineering (SAGE) Labs, an initiative of Sigma Life Science, extended CompoZr Zinc Finger Nuclease (ZFN) technology to achieve the first tissue-specific conditional knockout of an endogenous gene in rats. Continue reading →

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UCLA researchers develop genetically engineered stem cells to fight HIV in mice

A team of UCLA researchers has found a genetic engineering technique that suppresses the HIV virus in mice, an encouraging step toward potentially fighting the disease in humans, researchers said. Continue reading →

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'Bt cotton has done little to increase yield'

Southern Action on Genetic Engineering has alleged that Bt cotton has done little to increase yield. Net increase in yield, in fact, is dwindling in the last few years. "It has gone up by just 4 kg to 474 kg … Continue reading →

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Study shows unified process of evolution in bacteria and sexual eukaryotes

Bacteria adapt to habitats through random genetic mutations and gene exchange. But how does an advantageous mutation spread from a bacterium to a population? Does the gene sweep through a population or does an individual bacterium obtain the gene, then … Continue reading →

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James A. Shapiro: Your Life Depends on Immune Cells Doing the 'Impossible': Purposeful, Targeted DNA Engineering (Part …

This posting will discuss how further targeted natural genetic engineering refines antibody specificity and directs antibodies to the right place in your body to deal with each infection.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=genetic+engineering&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

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Normal triglyceride levels in people of African descent may hinder diagnosis of metabolic syndrome

( Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News ) In most people, high blood levels of the fat known as triglycerides are an early warning sign of Type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome, but in people of African descent these dangerous … Continue reading →

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Should a genetic predisposition to breast cancer be disclosed to children?

( Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News ) When a mother undergoes genetic testing to determine whether she carries a gene for hereditary breast cancer, the parents must then decide whether and how to share this risk information with their … Continue reading →

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Genetic Sensor Boosts Biofuel Production

Genetic Sensor Boosts Biofuel Production Designer microbes regulate their own pathways to optimize fuel production, boosting yields threefold. Give bacteria a bit of self-awareness and they can be smarter about producing biofuel. That’s the conclusion from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley who report a genetic sensor that enables bacteria to adjust their gene expression in response to varying levels of key intermediates for making biodiesel. Continue reading →

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Engineering Humans: A New Solution to Climate Change?

So far, conventional solutions to global warming — new government policies and changes in individual behavior — haven't delivered. And more radical options, such as pumping sulfur into the atmosphere to counteract warming, pose a great deal of risk. Continue reading →

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Stakeholders weigh in on UC Berkeley GMO complex

A forum critical of UC Berkeleys plans to ramp up genetic engineering research at a planned massive new second campus of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Richmond drew a capacity crowd to the David Brower Center Thursday night. One speaker after another ripped into the potential consequences of the universitys grandiose plans, including the human and environmental devastation certain to be wrought on Africa and Latin America. Continue reading →

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Online dating scammers looking for money, not love

Public release date: 28-Mar-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Vicki Cohn vcohn@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News New Rochelle, NY — Online romance scams, a new form of cybercrime, is under-reported and increasing, and has victimized an estimated 230,000 people in England, costing them nearly $60 billion a year, according to an article in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The article is available free online at the Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking website at www.liebertpub.com/cyber Continue reading →

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Plan to merge labs for biofuel research criticized

A plan by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to merge its energy labs into a major new research facility in Richmond where scientists would work to develop biofuels through genetic engineering came under fire Wednesday by activists who fear that dangerous new microbes would be created there. Continue reading →

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Innovative cell printing technologies hold promise for tissue engineering R&D

Public release date: 28-Mar-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Vicki Cohn vcohn@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 x2156 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News New Rochelle, NY — A novel method for printing human cells onto surfaces in defined patterns can help advance research on tissue engineering and regeneration, as described in an article in Tissue Engineering, Part C, Methods, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc (http://www.liebertpub.com). The article is available free online at the Tissue Engineering website (http://www.liebertpub.com/ten) Continue reading →

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Appistry Strengthens Security and Privacy for Genetic Information

Appistry, Inc., the world’s best company at solving complex, data intensive problems, today announced that the Ayrris/BIO genomic cloud service and on-premise appliance meet all HIPAA compliant standards. With this milestone, Appistry provides customers deploying Ayrris/BIO for the advanced analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data with assurance that their genomic information is private … Continue reading →

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Research and Markets: From Genes to Genomes: Concepts and Applications of DNA Technology, 3rd Edition

Dublin – Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/01d4e5c9/from_genes_to_geno) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd’s new book “From Genes to Genomes: Concepts and Applications of DNA Technology, 3rd Edition” to their offering. Continue reading →

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