Now, it’s time to bring DNA to space! There will be a collaboration between researchers from Lousiana Tech University and NASA to experiment DNA analyzer under zero gravity conditions this month during parabolic flight testing. Hope there would be a significance of the research – perhaps the effect of cosmic radiation on DNA. (more…)
Since urine tests fail to determine the gender of the unborn child, researchers from National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland has finally come out a fetal DNA testing method that can accurately predicts baby’s gender from a pregnant woman’s blood.
How accurately can this fetal DNA test predicts the baby’s gender based on a pregnant mother’s blood? (more…)
Happy birthday to the Father of Genetics, Gregor Mendel. Pea pods (which he used in his experiments and finally discovered the Law of Inheritance) appear in Google Doodle.