Tag: DNA

Users were advised to change and strengthen their passwords, and enable two-step verification for additional protection.

Why has junk DNA has not been eliminated from the genome of living creatures?

The researchers believe this therapeutic strategy could be more effective than existing anti-cancer drugs, against which patients gradually develop a resistance.

DNA-protein interactions underpin living cells and understanding them could lead to the ability to control their replication.

Based on this, scientists can identify from which tissue the circulating fragments of DNA originated and infer disease states.

Since ancient DNA research deals with people who once lived, it should therefore respect them.

A new blood test has the potential to diagnose cancers, liver diseases, immune disorders, without need for invasive and painful biopsies.

Prof. Yaron Shav-Tal and colleagues from the United States will work to shed new light on nuclear dynamics and their impact on the biology of gene regulation.

“we were able to debunk a twenty-year-old paradigm."

The study identified genes that safeguard against the viral infection as well as resuscitate infected cells, according to the researchers.

The maximum sentence the accused teen may receive is 25 years.

In one notable case, according to the report, law enforcement used a long-range familial search to trace the Golden State Killer.

The unique mission our nation has and our psyche.

Prof. Yuval Dor and Dr. Ruth Shemer received the Kaye Innovation Award for developing a way to detect specific tissue damage from a blood sample. It can save lives.

"This could pave the way to changing the human microbiome, the combined genetic material of the microorganisms in humans."

Just what we don’t need is some amateur, even if he is right, making headlines with a claim that Jack the Ripper was a Jew.

French Police were on the move all day Saturday, in chase of a jihadist cell made up of French youths who have recently taken...

Randy Scott’s family believed he had died instantly on September 11, 2001. Ten years after the attack, a note thrown out the window of the South Tower shortly after impact was discovered and identified using DNA tests. It was written by Scott minutes before he perished.

Throughout the centuries, following the Jewish people's exile from the land of our forefathers, when the name Rachel was evoked, the word "Imeinu"- our mother -was attached to it. Traditionally, Jews cry out to "Mother Rachel," one of the nation's four matriarchs, asking for her help in alleviating whatever woes we are enduring; beseeching her to petition Hashem on our behalf for relief and succor. Many have risked their lives to visit her burial place, known as Kever Rachel, in Bethlehem.

I'm not a doctor, nor a biological scientist, but I do know that people under stress produce a hormone called cortisol, which helps the body deal with a stressful event by increasing energy and immunity and even lowering sensitivity to pain.

The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, and Miracles is a book that can rewire your entire method of thinking. It reveals some of the very dynamics that saves lives.

This past week I took time out from my daily activities to have a medical checkup - something I highly recommend.

There is a wise Yiddish saying that translates into this observation: "Yichus (illustrious ancestors) is like a potato - they are both under the ground."