In a recent article entitled, “Black mamba venom peptides target acid-sensing ion channels to abolish pain” published online in Nature  on October 3, 2012(Nature 490,552–555, doi:10.1038/nature11494) Sylvie Diochot and her associates  report of   isolating  a new class of peptide from the extremely poisonous African

In  an article, “In vitro flowering and seed formation in lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.)”  published in the October  issue, 2012 of In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology,  the authors, RH Sarker, Subrata Das and MI Hoque  at Botany Dept., DU have described a novel technique by which they succeeded in obtaining via

In a PNAS article, “Efficient targeted gene disruption in Xenopus embryos using engineered transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs)”  published on 24th October, ’12, Ignor B. Dawid at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD and nine  associates affiliated to various universities of Hong Kong, have described an ap

In a review article entitled, “Attitude and purchasing decisions regarding genetically modified foods based on gender and education” published in vol. 12 of the Int. J. of Biotechnology pp.50 – 65, Amir Heiman and three of his associates working in the different departments of  Hebrew University including one  at the Department of Agricultural a

In a recent article entitled, “Identification of genomic regions involved in resistance against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum from wild Brassica oleracea” published on 25th October in Theoretical and Applied Genetics,  Jiaqin Mei and ten associates  (majority affiliated to College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest Unive

In an article entitled, “Comparison of the genetic determinism of two key phenological traits, flowering and maturity dates, in three Prunus species: peach, apricot and sweet cherry” published online 25 July in Heredity,  E Dirlewanger and his eleven associates affiliated to multiple Universities in France, Italy and Spain studied the p

A recent publication in Nature settled a long-standing scientific argument about the evolution of insects. These findings also gave an insight look in the formation of complex brain structure over 520 million years ago. All these started when scientists found a 520-million-year-old external skeleton of Fuxianhuia protensa, an extinct type of  A fossil arthropo

In an article entitled, “Coastal Eutrophication   as a Driver of Salt Marsh Loss” published in the 17th October issue of Nature,  Linda A. Deegan and six coworkers  each from a USA-based university have come to the conclusion  from a nine-year whole-ecosystem  study that nutrient enrichment (particularly of phosphate

The International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium (IBSC), consisting of scientists from 22 organizations around the globe, has sequenced the barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) genome of 5.3 billion bases which is almost twice the size of that of humans (3.2 billion bases). However, determination of the sequences of its DNA has presented a major challenge. This

In an article entitled, “Genetic Diversity in the Common Terrestrial Orchid Oreorchis patens and Its Rare Congener Oreorchis coreana: Inference of Species Evolutionary History and Implications for Conservation” published in the May issue of the Journal of Heredity [103(5):692-702], Mi Yoon Chung and six other investigators  observed that &nb