Topic: Life Sciences
Gene splice helps fight crop disease, say researchers
AFP Global Edition
Biologists on Sunday said they had found a potential superweapon in a long-running arms race with bacteria that threaten essential crops. Tested in a lab, their technique entails inserting a gene kit into a plant so that its immune system recognises and fights germ invaders, they reported in the journal ...
Scientists find new way to help crops fight pests
Reuters US Online Report Science News
LONDON (Reuters) - An international team of scientists has managed to transfer disease resistance from one plant family to another, offering broader protection from potentially costly and destructive pests. A team led by Cyril Zipfel at Britain's Sainsbury Laboratory found that transferring a single gene from a wild plant to ...
Glutamine Supplements: Who Needs Them and Why!
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Glutamine is causing stir lately. Critics question the use of Glutamine supplement. Along with it, they question this amino acid?s effectiveness in serving the functions or delivering the benefits it supposedly has. Significantly, Glutamine also gained respect based on the studies that associates it with protein synthesis, elevated growth ...
Sequencing of patients' genomes offers new hope: studies
AFP Global Edition
US researchers have decoded the entire genome of patients to identify the root cause of their diseases paving the way towards individual genomic treatments, according to newly published studies. James Lupski of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, sequenced his own genome to locate the gene responsible for the ...
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