Energy Eating Bacteria
There has been a discovery that certain bacteria are able to take up energy in terms of electrons for photosynthesis purposes. A form of photosynthesis where bacteria utilize varieties of ferrous iron as the source of electrons to fix…
Rice Genome Sequencing Project
Rice (Oriza sativa) is the second most cultivated cereal crop worldwide after maize. It is the staple food for over half of the world’s population, mainly in Asia, South America and Africa. Rice is an annual crop and grows in a warm and…
Mother's Immune System May Be Key to Delivery Date
In a study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology , an estimated 98% of all prematurely born infants survive their infancy, however approximately 44% of the ones born severely premature do not survive. If a child…
Sequencing Ancient DNA
The DNA recovered from the ancient specimens is called ancient DNA (aDNA). The time period of the aDNA collected from the target specimen can range from 100 years to million years. Some of the sources of aDNA are: mummified tissues,…
Does Genome Size Matter?
Total amount of DNA within a single set of chromosomes in a cell is called genome size or C-value. Commonly, genome size is measured in picograms or the number of nucleotide base pairs (one picogram of DNA is equal to 978 megabases of…
Genetic History of Rome
Rome wasn't built in a day. Rome known as the Eternal City was the first in the ancient world to reach 1 Million residents. Ancient Rome was the capital of an empire of ~70 millions inhabitants, but little is known about the ancestral…
Is Biofilm Keeping You Awake?
There are many television commercials and Internet advertisements recently all stating that they have instruments detrimental to the cleanliness of CPAP machines. A CPAP machine is a medical grade device used for the delivery of…
Whole Exome Sequencing Sheds Light on Cervical Cancer
The Cervix is lower part of the uterus and cervical cancer occurs in the cells of the cervix. In cervical cancer, the cells of the cervix grow abnormally and invade other tissues and organs of the body including lungs, liver, bladder,…