ASPB opposes ban of GE crops in Butte County Ballot Measure D
...tically engineered organism" as an organism or the offspring of an organism, the DNA of which has been altered or amended through genetic engineering. A review of the scientific literature shows that genetically engineered foods are as safe as foods that are not genetically engineered. For example, the Nation...Study in Royal Society journals presents evidence for inherited factors in homosexuality
...n in male reproductive success (ie ability to sire offspring when in competition with other males). We measured the expression level of over 14,000 genes in the fruit fly and identified 27 that were strongly associated with differences in male reproductive success. One of these genes is known to cause pesticid...Identifying genes that contribute to a low level of response to alcohol
...onse between siblings or between parents and their offspring than you would expect from the random population, which directly implies there are genes that underlie that heritability. Step three, he added, is the current study that seeks to identify those genes. Schuckit and his colleagues reviewed both anima......fertile as normal mice, having only about half the offspring as other mice. Most visibly, the females have ...fessor of urology. "A normal mouse will gather its offspring and crouch over them and take care of them, but these "knockout" mice just left their pups scattered...Mouse study: 'Critical' Down syndrome region isn't
...stem cells. Physical inspection of these animals' offspring showed that triple-DSCR mice were bigger than normal mice. Mice with only one copy of DSCR were smaller than normal, similar to a well-studied mouse version of Down syndrome that has three copies of many more of the genes found on human chromosome 21...Early life stress harms mental function and immune system in later years
...st third of pregnancy affects the ability of adult offspring to respond to challenges to their immune system. H...ntrols in this group were left alone. Adult female offspring were then given an intravenous injection of lipopolysaccharide, an immune challenger known to bring ...Genetically endowed worm may substitute for rodents in some toxicology testing
...t where we put an adult animal in and see how many offspring it makes and count the offspring and see how fast they grow." Another variation is to create varieties of transgen...Findings challenge Darwinian theory
...wo of the same 'handedness' were mated, half their offspring would be left-sided and half would be right-sided. "Genetics made no difference in the direction of asymmetry. It's a trait strictly determined by environment. From an evolutionary perspective, this means form arises first and the genes follow." ...Researchers grow sperm stem cells in laboratory cultures
..., which were then able to produce sperm and father offspring that were genetically related to the donor mice. "This advance opens up an exciting range of possibilities for future research, from developing new treatments for male infertility to enhancing the survival of endangered species," said Duane Alexa...Growth factors confer immortality to sperm-generating stem cells
...ack into infertile mice. These mice then produced offspring that demonstrated the success of the culture system, thanks to the expression of the GFP gene that made the mice glow green under ultraviolet light. "The identification of the exogenous factors that allow these stem cells to proliferate in culture es...Reassuring findings from first study on sperm donor identification
...inding indicates that the stereotypical concern of offspring showing up on the donor's doorstep is inaccurate and does not reflect the intentions of the actual youths going through the identity-release process." Dr Scheib said that the practice of open-identity sperm donation was still in its infancy and it wo...Sex versus survival: A tradeoff at geographical range limits
...roduction (where plants make genetically identical offspring by vegetative budding). This is akin to the evolutionary loss of eyes in cave organisms where a lack of light makes visual stimuli useless. Published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society, the paper is co-authored by Queen's student Kathry...Genome of ancient fish could reveal evolutionary mysteries, Stanford scientists say
...s that the coelacanth has had fewer generations of offspring to accumulate mutations. The fact that coelacanth is available for sequencing is a lucky accident. They were thought to be extinct until 1938 when museum curator Marjorie Courtaney-Latimer discovered a specimen in a fisherman's catch near...New bulls may revive the Texas state Bison Herd
...le population that's having a reasonable number of offspring and the old ones are dying the average age should... three or four cows, and samples of the DNA of the offspring will be collected. Swepston said it will be a long-term project. "It will be probably be a few year...Low-carb diet during pregnancy improved triglycerides, fat metabolism in offspring
...udy points to some positive benefits for the adult offspring of low-carb dieters. A team of U.K. scientists a...(high-carb/low-fat). The female low-carb/high-fat offspring also had higher amounts of proteins that aid fatty acid oxidation (fat burning) than did the standar...Studies in Royal Society journals include stress in birds and depletion of medieval fish stocks
...res weigh less, but are not smaller, which affects offspring survival. This is the first report for an incubation temperature dependent sex bias in birds. Contact: Dr Ann Gth, Psychology, Macquarie University, North Ryde, SYDNEY, 2109, Australia Community response to enrichment is highly sensitive to model st...International team finds gene variants that affect response to HIV infection
...idemic on HLA-B alleles already can be seen in the offspring of mothers infected with HIV. Mothers with protective alleles pass on HIV infection to their children less often than do mothers with alleles that do less to stop the progression of the disease. As a result, the frequency of the protective alleles wo...Dwarf mistletoe reveals its sexual secrets
...ans "turd on a twig." This refers to the fact that offspring of these parasitic plants start to grow on a new tree host after being eaten and deposited by a bird, complete with their own kick-start fertilizer. But the dwarf mistletoe takes spreading its seed into its own hands. Through a painstaking micr...Highlights of January 2005 issue of Biology of Reproduction
...ree mutant mice. After mating, these mice produced offspring that not only expressed the introduced EGFP construct but also passed it on to their offspring and subsequent generations. This groundbreaking work sets the stage for further germline modificatio...Study in Royal Society journal on managing GM crops for environmental benefit
... multiply because genetically heterogeneous worker offspring are better protected against parasitism. However, ...nation, survived shorter periods and produced less offspring than females receiving sperm from a single male. Furthermore, sperm from some males (brothers) are m...