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Scientists at the Carnegie Institution discovered that not all roots of plants are equally inhibited by salt. In their paper published in the current issue of The Plant Cell, they reported that an inner layer of tissue in the branching roots is sensitive to salt, which activates ...

Gen-News-Highlights, Researchers from the Whitehead Institute needed just a computer, an Internet connection, and publicly accessible online resources to identify nearly 50 individuals who had submitted personal genetic material as participants in genomic studies.

Scientists in China have published a research study reporting that transgenic cotton bred to resist pests actually boosts biodiversity since it reduces the amount of insecticide sprayed on fields. The researchers have collected data from 1990 to 2010 at 36 sites in six provinces of northern China and ...

News softpedia- Scientists are well known for their restless minds and for their eagerness to constantly push the boundaries of human knowledge. Therefore, it need not surprise anybody that these past twelve months were filled with major scientific breakthroughs, some of which can be labeled as “cool,” to say the…

GEN News Highlights-Scientists at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center report the discovery of a novel type of cell division in human cells. They believe it serves as a natural back-up mechanism during faulty cell division.

Chinese scientists have linked obesity to bacteria suggesting diets that alter the presence of microbes in humans could combat the condition. Researchers in Shanghai found that...

The 18th FAO e-mail conference, entitled "GMOs in the pipeline: Looking to the next five years in the crop, forestry, livestock, aquaculture and agro-industry sectors in developing countries", was officially closed on Dec. 3, 2012. FAO established this Biotechnology Forum in order to ...

A common gene variant separates early birds from night owls, and can even predict someone’s hour of death. The findings—published in the November issue of the journal Annals of Neurology—could help people schedule ...

Teagasc scientist Stefan Buzoianu and team conducted a research to determine the effect of feeding transgenic maize to sows during gestation and lactation on maternal and offspring immunity and to detect the fate of the transgene.

Cotton leaf curl virus, a very damaging virus disease in Pakistan, is hoped to be controlled with a biotech cotton resistant to the virus developed by Drs. Idrees Ahmad Nasir and Saleem Haider of Punjab Universitys Centre for Excellence Molecular Biology (CEMB) and the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, respectively.