Start codons in DNA may be more numerous than previously thought
Credit: Jeff Glasgow/Ariel Hecht/Kelly Irvine/NIST For decades, scientists working with genetic material have labored with a few basic rules in mind. To start, DNA is...
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Endangered ibises benefit from joining egret flocks
Credit: N. Zhao Birds benefit from flocking together — even when they're not of a feather. According to a new study in The Auk: Ornithological...
NIH to expand critical catalog for genomics research
Credit: Ernesto Del Aguila, NHGRI The National Institutes of Health plans to expand its Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project, a genomics resource used by...
St. Michael’s Hospital leading study in Canada to identify…
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Dec. 1, 2017–For many people living with HIV, the stigma associated with their illness is itself a health...
Gut microbiota of larvae has an impact on mosquito’s ability to transmit human…
Credit: © Institut Pasteur Mosquitoes are holometabolous insects (i.e. organisms that go through a complete metamorphosis). As such, they occupy two main habitats during their...
Van Andel Research Institute’s Hui Shen receives ovarian cancer research award
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Nov. 18, 2015)–The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF) yesterday announced that Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) Assistant Professor Hui Shen, Ph.D., has...
Sequencing poisonous mushrooms to potentially create medicine
Credit: By G.L. Kohuth EAST LANSING, Mich. – A team of Michigan State University scientists has genetically sequenced two species of poisonous mushrooms, discovering that...
Oregon scientists link signaling network to heart valve defects
EUGENE, Ore. — May 5, 2016 — A cell-to-cell signaling network that serves as a developmental timer could provide a framework for better understanding the...
Drugs with multiple targets show promise against myotonic dystrophy type 1
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Efforts to treat myotonic dystrophy type 1, the most common form of muscular dystrophy, are in their infancy. In a new study,...
New metalloid oxide reducing bacteria found in manitoba’s…
Credit: Dr. Vladimir Yurkov A new study published in the Canadian Journal of Microbiology has identified new toxic metalloid-reducing bacteria in highly polluted abandoned gold...
New research reveals cancers need a ‘perfect storm’ of conditions to develop
SCIENTISTS have demonstrated for the first time the 'perfect storm' of conditions that cells need to start forming cancer, helping to explain why some organs...
Mixed organization of gut bacteria is revealed by microbiome imaging…
Credit: Jessica Mark Welch and Yuko Hasegawa, MBL WOODS HOLE, Mass.– Disruptions in the microbiome of the human gut are correlated with several diseases, including...
Trials show inactivated Zika virus vaccine is safe and immunogenic
Credit: NIAID The investigational Zika purified inactivated virus (ZPIV) vaccine was well-tolerated and induced an immune response in participants, according to initial results from three...
Study: Bonobos may be better representation of last common ancestor with humans
Credit: iStock photo WASHINGTON (April 28, 2017)–A new study examining the muscular system of bonobos provides firsthand evidence that the rare great ape species may...
Mothers with diabetes more likely to also have anti-fetal brain autoantibodies
Mothers of children with autism and were diagnosed with metabolic conditions during pregnancy, particularly gestational and type 2 diabetes, were more likely to have anti-fetal...
