The biotech company Geron Corporation has determined that a molecule from Astragalus propinquus root called TA-65 is a telomerase activator. According to PRNewswire, TA Sciences, has a license from Geron to sell TA-65 and is now selling it as a neutraceutical anti-aging product at their TA Sciences Center in New York City
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astragalus_propinquus
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College students often spend their free time thinking about beer, but a group of Rice University students are taking it to the next level. They’re using genetic engineering to create beer that contains resveratrol, a chemical in wine that’s been shown to reduce cancer and heart disease in lab animals.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/ru-bbc101608.php
CellDesigner is a structured diagram editor for drawing gene-regulatory and biochemical networks. Intuitive user-interface helps you to draw a diagram in rich graphical representation with your own design.
http://celldesigner.org/
Earlier this year, a group of Japanese scientists reported that with appropriate training, the true slime mold Physarum polycephalum can anticipate the timing of periodic events.
http://arxivblog.com/?p=684
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A recurrent, if immediately superficial topos in the non-specialist literature regarding the content and implications of molecular biology is the following: it is estimated that the caryotype (the particular configuration of chromosomes in a specific cell of a living organism, the particular character of the “code”) of the human species […]
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The transportation of antibodies from a mother to her newborn child is vital for the development of that child’s nascent immune system. Those antibodies, donated by transfer across the placenta before birth or via breast milk after birth, help shape a baby’s response to foreign pathogens and may influence the later occurrence of autoimmune diseases. […]
