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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.

Scientists from Melbourne University in cooperation with Australian biotech company Immuroin Ltd. developed cows milk that protects human cells from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). They vaccinated pregnant cows with ...

By:Arezoo Motaghi- Deputy Minister of Health for Research and Technology announced the production of Iranian influenza vaccine. Dr. Mostafa Ghanei mentioned that this vaccine observes all ...

The Petri Dish-October 2012- By: Behzad Ghareyazie and Mahaletchumy Arujunan- Since 1996, billions of people worldwide have consumed foods derived from biotech crops with not a single health hazard recorded. To date a total of 16.7 million farmers in 29 countries grow biotech crops on a land area of 167 million…

GENNewsHighlights-While about a decade of research has suggested a link between obesity and several forms of cancer, a preclinical study published this week has begun to shed light on just how fat progenitor cells may contribute to the deadly disease beyond the effects of diet and exercise.

The 6th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP MOP/6) was held from 1 – 5 October in Hyderabad, India. As with previous MOPs, the Public Research and Regulation Initiative (PRRI) co-organized preparatory meetings for ...

By: Naghmeh Abiri- Around six month ago IRBIC published news about a genetically modified (GM) wheat produced by British scientists at Rothamsted. This wheat emits a pheromone that is similar to the one which aphids release when they are being attacked. This pheromone scares away ...

Iran Biotechnology Information Center- Dr. Osama Momtaz , professor and the Director General of Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute of Egypt (AGERI) who is participating in the 6th Conference of the Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity Serving as the ...