Tag: Biology

Findings reveal that restoration of marsh vegetation is key to overall recoveryCredit: © D. Johnson/VIMS. Nine years ago tomorrow--April 20, ...

A universal framework combining genome annotation and undergraduate education

New workflow for annotating genomes will help both researchers and undergraduate studentsCredit: Prashant Hosmani As genome sequencing becomes cheaper and ...

New method to detect off-target effects of CRISPR

Scientists discover how to identify off-target damage caused by CRISPR genome editing SAN FRANCISCO, CA--April 19, 2019--Since the CRISPR genome ...

Barrow researcher discovers critical RNA processing aberrations

Research by a Barrow Neurological Center scientist on mechanisms of dysfunctional RNA processing in ALS and frontaltemporal dementia (FTD) was ...

Plants are also stressed out

Salk scientists uncover a link between RNA editing and chloroplast-to-nucleus communication that could help plants adapt to a changing worldCredit: ...

Mysterious river dolphin helps crack the code of marine mammal communication

Credit: Paulo Castro The Araguaian river dolphin of Brazil is something of a mystery. It was thought to be quite ...

Scientists identify a novel target for corn straw utilization

Credit: WU Zhenying Plant cell walls, as repositories of fixed carbon, are an important source of biomass, which is mainly ...

In distinguished company

Four UC Santa Barbara professors join the 2019 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences UC Santa Barbara ...

New book on next-generation sequencing in medicine from CSHL Press

Credit: Artwork credited to vector artist whiteMocca and reprinted with permission from Shutterstock (ID: 663251594). Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- ...

New immune pathway involved in resistance to parasite worms found in undercooked pork

Credit: John Worthington Scientists from Lancaster University in the UK have discovered that immune responses originally found to prevent fungal ...

How the hepatitis B virus establishes persistent infection

Credit: Yang F, Yu X, Zhou C, Mao R, Zhu M, Zhu H, et al. (2019) New research sheds light ...

Preliminary study suggests mercury not a risk in dog foods

Study looked at methylmercury levels in 24 dog diets Researchers at the University of California, Davis, recently investigated levels of ...

Fish under threat release chemicals to warn others of danger

Credit: Katherine Fedoroff. Fish warn each other about danger by releasing chemicals into the water as a signal, research by ...

Giant tortoises migrate unpredictably in the face of climate change

Unlike many migratory species, Galapagos giant tortoises do not use current environmental conditions to time their seasonal migrationCredit: Photo courtesy ...

Bioengineers add cooperative molecules to their toolkit for programming signal processing

Credit: Image courtesy of Rice University Elaborate molecular networks inside living cells enable them to sense and process many signals ...

Estimating the efficacy and cost of curative gene therapy for beta-thalassemia

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 18, 2019--Gene therapy offers the promise of a cure for ...

The brain’s imperfect execution of mathematically optimal perception

Thirty-person study of human perception suggests a 'middle ground' between opposing literatureCredit: Designed by Elina Stengård Human perception is based ...

Bioengineers program cells as digital signal processors

Synthetic biologists add tunable, analog-to-digital converter to their toolkitCredit: Rice University HOUSTON -- (April 18, 2019) -- Synthetic biologists have ...

Studies identify mechanism key to removal of protein aggregates from cells

Mass. General team's findings may have application to treatment of cancer, neurodegenerative disorders Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have discovered ...

Cell-killing proteins suppress listeria without killing cells