Friday, January 13, 2012

ScienceDaily: Biotechnology News

ScienceDaily: Biotechnology News


Novel approach to view inner workings of viruses

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 12:16 PM PST

Researchers have developed a new way to see structures within viruses that were not clearly seen before.

Blame your taste buds for liking fat: Receptor for tasting fat identified in humans

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 10:43 AM PST

Why do we like fatty foods so much? We can blame our taste buds. In the first study to identify a human receptor that can taste fat, researchers report that our tongues recognize and have an affinity for fat and that variations in a gene can make people more or less sensitive to the taste of fat in foods.

New insights into an ancient mechanism of mammalian evolution

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 10:43 AM PST

A team of geneticists and computational biologists have reveal how an ancient mechanism is involved in gene control and continues to drive genome evolution.

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