Genetics
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May 9, 2012 | Research News
NSF grant will help scientists uncover hidden soybean genes
Soybeans are the world's largest single source of vegetable protein and edible oil, already used to make livestock feed, soymilk, tofu, adhesives, alternative fuels, disinfectants, plastics and particleboard. Using a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, University of Georgia researcher Wayne Parrott hopes to uncover more uses for the popular legume.
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March 29, 2012 | Research News
UGA scientists reveal genetic mutation depicted in van Gogh’s sunflower paintings
In addition to being among his most vibrant and celebrated works, Vincent van Gogh's series of sunflower paintings also depict a mutation whose genetic basis has, until now, been a bit of a mystery.
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March 26, 2012 | Events on Campus
Nobel Prize winner to deliver Boyd Lecture at UGA
Bruce Beutler, 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine and director of the Center for Genetics of Host Defense at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, will deliver the 2012 George H. Boyd Distinguished Lecture. He will speak at 4 p.m. on April 11, in room 102 of the Zell B. Miller Learning Center. His lecture is titled "Forward Genetic Analysis of Innate Immunity."
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January 24, 2012 | Events on Campus
How to Build a Dinosaur author to speak Feb. 6 during Darwin Days at UGA
World-renowned paleontologist Jack Horner, author of How to Build a Dinosaur, will discuss how he and his colleagues are developing the technology to create a real dinosaur at a lecture that is part of the annual Darwin Days celebration at the University of Georgia.
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December 8, 2011 | Honors & Awards
Genetics Professor Jonathan Arnold named AAAS Fellow
University of Georgia geneticist Jonathan Arnold has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor bestowed on him by his peers for "scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications."
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June 15, 2011 | Events on Campus
Eye experts to meet at UGA for international symposium on aniridia and low vision disorders
More than a dozen of the world's leading experts in low vision treatment and research will travel to the University of Georgia to speak at the inaugural Aniridia and Low Vision Research Symposium July 15-17 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education and Conference Center.
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January 7, 2011 | General News
Nobel Prize winner to deliver Boyd Lectures at UGA
Thomas R. Cech, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a 1989 Nobel Laureate in chemistry, will deliver the 2011 George H. Boyd Research Distinguished Lectures.
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September 17, 2009 | Research News
UGA geneticist receives $2 million federal stimulus grant for research on the thymus
The National Institutes of Health have awarded, as part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, a two-year, $2 million grant to a University of Georgia genetics researcher and her colleagues for studies on the thymus, the organ in humans that produces disease-fighting T-cells.
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September 16, 2009 | Research News
UGA family researchers receive $5.9 million grant
University of Georgia researchers have been awarded a five-year, $5.9 million Core Center of Excellence grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to address the ways genetic predispositions combine with family and community environments to forecast drug use, drug abuse and risky sexual behavior among children, adolescents and young adults.
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August 17, 2009 | Research News
Researchers propose chromosome disorder model
Scientists at the University of Georgia have developed a model system for plants and animals that shows the loss of a key structural protein can lead to the premature separation of one DNA copy called a chromatid.
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June 5, 2009 | General News
Computing Life
Researchers at the University of Georgia report that the number of genes under control of the biological clock in a much-studied model organism is dramatically higher than previously reported. The new study implies that the clock may be much more important in living things than suspected only a few years ago.
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June 25, 2008 | Research News
UGA research may lead to safer, more effective gene therapy
The potential of gene therapy has long been hampered by the risks associated with using viruses as vectors to deliver healthy genes, but a new University of Georgia study helps bring scientists closer to a safe and efficient gene delivery method that doesn't involve viruses.
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September 18, 2007 | Research News
New study shows species still have more viable offspring if they can choose their best mate
New research that crosses several species boundaries shows that when animals must choose less-than-preferred (to them) mates, females and males apparently have ways to compensate that increase the chance their offspring will survive.