Biologists first observed “transgenerational epigenetic inheritance” in plants. But, over the past few years, evidence has accumulated showing that the phenomenon also occurs in rodents and humans.
04 Jun20150
26 May20150
Luck or DNA – Genetics of the Four-Leaf Clover and the Search for the Elusive Lucky Gene
The clover genome is very complicated and even though many scientists have tried to find the exact genes responsible for the four-leaf mutation, they haven’t been identified as of yet.
14 May20150
Agents of Change – MIQE Guidelines New iBook
Can we trust your published qPCR data?
The pressure to publish is causing shortcuts which result in misleading papers being published.
05 May20150
Genetic Fingerprinting: Do Some Twins Have More Than One Father?
The only way to confirm heteropaternal superfecundation in human twins is genetic testing.
30 Apr20150
Major Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in Molecular Biology – Who Owns Whom?
In the last 15 years life science research and workflows have been transformed by new techniques and lab automation.
21 Apr20150
Biomolecular Detection and Quantification Journal
Elsevier’s Biomolecular Detection and Quantification (BDQ) journal is a new open access, peer-reviewed international journal focused on the application of qualitative and quantitative molecular methodologies to all areas of clinical and life sciences.
07 Apr20150
INTERVIEW: Think Beyond the PhD – Into the Big World of Small RNAs
Meet Jan Hellemans, CEO of Biogazelle, focused on unraveling the coding and non-coding regions of the genome.
31 Mar20150
Excited about Long Reads?
Recently there’s been a lot of excitement building up within the molecular biology community about sequencing long reads, and by “long reads” I mean reads of several kb in length…
10 Mar20150
Race Towards the Future: Digital Droplet PCR – Conqueror or Ally?
Will ddPCR replace qPCR technology?
10 Mar20150
Relative Quantification Data Presentation
How to present the ratio data?