Biology 30- Gametogenesis Project Video made by; Jaden, Matthew, and Thomas. This video shows the reproduction of gametes through the process of meiosis. By: Jfromoil _ … Continue reading →

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Computational Biology and Data Science at the New York Times - Chris Wiggins Check out the full post here: http://www.hakkalabs.co/articles/computational-biology-data-science-new-york-times Nearly all fields have been or are being transformed by the availability of... By: Hakka Labs … Continue reading →

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Biology Lab- Stream Team The biology classes go on the "Stream Team" field trip to test water and insect samples for their lab. By: NTV NEWS @NKCHS … Continue reading →

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 30-Sep-2014 Contact: Cody Mooneyhan cmooneyhan@faseb.org 301-634-7104 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology @fasebopa When it comes to using marijuana, new research, involving mice and published in the October 2014 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, suggests that just because you can do it, doesn't mean that you should. That's because a team of Italian scientists have found that using marijuana in adolescence may do serious long-term damage to the immune system. This damage may result in autoimmune diseases and chronic inflammatory diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis in adulthood. "I hope that the knowledge that early exposure to marijuana is associated with immediate and long-term deleterious effects on the immune system may reach adolescents and their families," said Paola Sacerdote, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Universit degli Studi di Milano in Milano, Italy. "The increased risk of getting sick in adulthood may hopefully be a deterrent for marijuana abuse among young individuals." To make this discovery, scientists injected "adolescent" mice with THC, the main active component of marijuana, for 10 days. This period in the mouse lifecycle corresponded to the adolescence period in humans (approximately ages … Continue reading →

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 29-Sep-2014 Contact: Anna Perman Anna.Perman@biomedcentral.com 44-020-319-22429 BioMed Central @biomedcentral Genomic data could predict whether statins will benefit a patient or not, according to an article in the open access journal Genome Biology. The research suggests that genomic data alone can explain around 15% of patients' responses to a cholesterol-lowering statin, and further studies could increase the accuracy of these predictions. The study looked at data from 372 participants in an American clinical trial for the statin, Simvastatin, and found that certain genetic signatures were more common in patients whose cholesterol was effectively lowered by the treatment, while others were associated with patients who hadn't responded so well. It was possible to predict how 15% of the patients would respond to statins, and this data could help clinicians to make a decision about whether to prescribe statins for individual patients. Statins are used to try to lower patients' levels of cholesterol, a type of fat which is carried in the blood and can block arteries. While they reduce rates of heart disease in many patients, clinicians have debated whether they should be prescribed widely, because they have significant side-effects which some argue outweigh the benefits. Being able to … Continue reading →